Robert Ambrogi

Bob Ambrogi

Bob is a lawyer, veteran legal journalist, and award-winning blogger and podcaster. In 2011, he was named to the inaugural Fastcase 50, honoring “the law’s smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries and leaders.” Earlier in his career, he was editor-in-chief of several legal publications, including The National Law Journal, and editorial director of ALM’s Litigation Services Division.

PracticePanther Launches PantherAccounting Plus, a Native Trust and Operating Accounting Suite for Law Firms

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PracticePanther, the cloud-based legal practice management platform that is part of Paradigm’s suite of legal software products, today launched PantherAccounting Plus, a comprehensive trust and operating accounting feature set built natively into its platform.

The new capability enables law firms to manage the full lifecycle of their financial operations – from client retainers…

Josef Launches ‘Rapid Ingestion Engine,’ Using AI To Turn Messy Business Inputs Into Structured Legal Workflows

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Josef, the Australia-based legal automation platform, has launched a new capability it is calling the Rapid Ingestion Engine, which uses AI to convert unstructured business inputs — such as email threads, meeting notes and term sheets — into the structured data that legal workflow templates require.

The idea, according to Josef CEO and cofounder…

Exclusive: Smokeball and Thomson Reuters Partner to Integrate CoCounsel Legal AI with Practice Management Platform

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Smokeball, the cloud-based practice management platform serving small to mid-sized law firms, and Thomson Reuters announced a strategic partnership today that will embed Thomson Reuters’ CoCounsel Legal AI into Smokeball’s practice management software — a combination the companies say brings together deep legal content and advanced AI capabilities with broad practice management functionality…

Legal Industry Reaches AI Tipping Point: Majority of Lawyers Now Using Gen AI Despite Persistent Reliability Concerns

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The legal profession crossed a significant threshold in 2025: For the first time, more lawyers are using generative AI than not, even as firm leaders express widespread concern about the technology’s reliability, according to the 2025 State of the Legal Industry report released today by SurePoint Technologies.

The tension between adoption and apprehension…

Centerbase Launches Native ndMAX Integration, Connecting Practice Management to AI-Powered Document Workflows

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Centerbase, a practice management platform for midsized law firms, is announcing today an enhanced native integration with NetDocuments that makes it the first practice management platform to natively connect matter data with ndMAX, NetDocuments’ AI-powered document intelligence system.

Centerbase says that the integration, which it will be demonstrating at ABA TECHSHOW this week…