https://www.lawnext.com/ Tracking new and intriguing websites and products for the legal profession. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:32:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/universal-migrator-releases-scripts-that-migrate-quickbooks-lexipi-and-ins-zoom-to-clio-mycase-litify-and-lawmatics.html Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:02:37 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52827 Universal Migrator has released new data migration scripts that help legal technology consultants migrate law firms from Quickbooks, LexiPi, and INS Zoom into major practice management tools Clio, MyCase, Litify, and Lawmatics. With these additions, Universal Migrator’s script library now supports 144+ applications, spanning practice management, CRM, billing/accounting, and document management systems. The latest additions […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/clio-adds-agentic-ai-capabilities-to-clio-work-also-launches-vincent-mobile-app.html Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:51:32 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52822 Clio today announced two notable updates to its AI product line: the addition of agentic capabilities to Clio Work, and the launch of a standalone Vincent by Clio mobile app for iOS and Android. Agentic Clio Work When Clio CEO Jack Newton unveiled Clio Work at ClioCon last October — in a keynote that left […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/the-nfl-has-a-new-official-professional-services-partner-and-yes-its-a-legal-tech-company.html Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:43:40 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52811 There was a time, not so long ago, when the most exciting sponsorship deal a legal technology company might land was having its logo on a tote bag at an ABA conference. Those days, it appears, are decidedly over. Today, 8am — the company formerly known as AffiniPay and parent of LawPay, MyCase, CasePeer and […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/in-ai-powered-brand-deal-harvey-partners-with-yet-another-harvey-you-know-its-other-namesake.html Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:30:51 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52794 Following its February news that it had entered into a brand partnership withj Gabriel Macht, who played Harvey Specter in the TV series Suits, the legal AI company Harvey said today that it has entered into another such partnership involving another iconic Harvey — only this time it is using AI to make the partnership […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/on-lawnext-mary-technology-wants-to-solve-litigations-fact-chaos-problem.html Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:33:43 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52751 E-discovery platforms have gotten great at narrowing millions of documents down to manageable sets. But what happens next — the grueling work of extracting facts, organizing them, and building a reliable case narrative — has remained largely manual. In this episode of LawNext, host Bob Ambrogi talks with Daniel Lord-Doyle, cofounder and CEO of Mary […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/a-new-legal-research-conference-coming-soon-and-last-day-before-ticket-prices-increase.html Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:14:26 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52789 I have been meaning to write about the new Law Firm Research & Innovation Conference taking place April 28 in New York, and then I realized there is now some urgency to it, as ticket prices go up tomorrow, April 1. The new conference is being organized by LegalTech Connect, the same team that produces […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/collbox-wins-10th-annual-startup-alley-pitch-competition-at-aba-techshow.html Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:06:28 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52785 CollBox, a company that helps law firms get paid more quickly, won the 10th annual Startup Alley pitch competition at ABA Techshow last week in Chicago. Second place went to Candle AI, an email assistant that helps small and mid-sized law firms eliminate email overload. The third-place winner was Lawdify, an autonomous AI agent for […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/survey-finds-majority-of-federal-judges-have-used-ai-in-their-work-but-daily-use-remains-rare.html Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:50:13 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52767 A first-of-its-kind random-sample survey of federal judges has found that more than 60% have used generative artificial intelligence tools in their judicial work, though fewer than one in four use these tools on a daily or weekly basis. The study, conducted by researchers at Northwestern University in collaboration with the New York City Bar Association, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/ai-that-listens-like-a-lawyer-a-side-by-side-comparison-of-general-ai-notetakers-and-legal-conversational-intelligence.html Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:15:49 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52760 AI That Listens Like a Lawyer:  Courts Are Exposing the Gap Between What AI Notetakers Promise and What Their Contracts Permit. Purpose-Built Legal Conversational Intelligenceᵀᴹ Tools, Such as Querious®, Offer Attorneys a Defensible Path Forward. A gap exists between how general-purpose AI notetakers are marketed to legal professionals and what their terms of service permit. […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/exclusive-smokeball-and-thomson-reuters-partner-to-integrate-cocounsel-legal-ai-with-practice-management-platform.html Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:00:43 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52746 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 in a […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/legal-industry-reaches-ai-tipping-point-majority-of-lawyers-now-using-gen-ai-despite-persistent-reliability-concerns.html Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:00:50 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52756 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 defines the […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/centerbase-launches-native-ndmax-integration-connecting-practice-management-to-ai-powered-document-workflows.html Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:30:20 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52735 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 in Chicago, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/how-two-litigators-spent-five-years-in-stealth-building-what-they-say-is-the-most-comprehensive-litigation-platform-on-the-market.html Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:11:30 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52731 At the recent Legalweek conference in New York, I sat down with the cofounders of Syllo, a legal technology company that has taken a uniquely ambitious approach to developing technology for litigators. Rather than focus on any one segment of the litigation process, they have built a unified, AI-powered litigation workspace that spans the entire […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/data-intelligence-company-relativity-confidentially-files-for-ipo-would-be-first-in-legal-tech-since-2021.html Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:40:14 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52722 The legal data intelligence company Relativity says it has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of its Class A common stock. The filing is not yet available to the public, and the number of shares to be offered and the price range […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/lawnext-on-location-visiting-everlaws-headquarters-for-a-conversation-with-aj-shankar-founder-and-ceo.html Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:22:44 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52710 For the final installment of our LawNext on Location series, all recorded during my trip to San Francisco, I head across the bay to Oakland, to the headquarters of e-discovery company Everlaw, where I sit down with founder and CEO AJ Shankar for a conversation about technology, AI and being in it for the long […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/sixth-circuit-slaps-steep-sanctions-on-two-lawyers-for-fake-citations-and-misrepresentations-in-appellate-briefs.html Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:26:07 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52701 In what may be one of the most significant appellate sanctions rulings yet involving fabricated case citations, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has imposed substantial penalties on two Tennessee attorneys for filing briefs containing more than two dozen fake or misrepresented citations. The court sanctioned attorneys Van R. Irion and Russ Egli, ordering […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/aderant-adds-ai-powered-performance-evaluation-tools-to-its-vi-talent-management-suite.html Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:45:05 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52688 Aderant, the Atlanta-based provider of business management software for law firms, today announced the addition of AI-powered capabilities to its vi by Aderant talent management suite, including AI-assisted employee performance evaluations, real-time sentiment analysis, and auto-summarization features within its viEval and viAllocate products. The company says these are the first client-facing AI capabilities within the […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/pro-bono-net-the-a2j-technology-pioneer-rebrands-as-scale-justice-to-reflect-its-evolving-mission.html Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:30:53 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52683 Pro Bono Net, the nonprofit that has been a pioneering force in access-to-justice technology since the dawn of the internet era, yesterday announced that it is rebranding as Scale Justice, reflecting an evolution in its mission that has taken it beyond its origins as an organizer of pro bono legal services. The new name, said […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/another-podcast-with-clio-founder-jack-newton-yep-but-this-time-its-him-interviewing-me-in-my-seaside-hometown.html Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:51:33 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52671 You know that idiom about the mountain coming to Muhammad? That is how I felt when Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton came to my small seaside town of Rockport, Mass., to interview me, complete with film crew and entourage. It was Jack turning the tables on me. I’ve interviewed him for my own LawNext […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/hand-arendall-harrison-sale-transforms-document-workflows-and-sees-immediate-roi-with-literas-ai-powered-drafting-and-compare.html Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:42:01 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52661 Customer results highlight growing demand for unified drafting, comparison, and collaboration within Microsoft 365 and web   NEW YORK – Legalweek 2026 – Mar. 10, 2026 – Litera, a global leader in legal AI technology solutions, shared new customer results at Legalweek demonstrating how law firms are transforming document workflows and realizing immediate value with […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/legalweek-has-left-the-building-and-successfully-landed-in-a-new-one.html Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:34:12 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52640 Last week, Law.com Legalweek pulled off something genuinely impressive: It moved. After 39 years at the New York Hilton Midtown, one of the world’s leading legal technology conferences relocated to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, a sprawling glass and steel pavilion 1.6 miles away on Manhattan’s far west side, steps from the entrance to […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/guest-post-the-new-physics-of-legal-tech-who-performs-legal-work-in-the-ai-era-part-3-of-3.html Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:10:40 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52632 This is the final installment in a three-part series examining the forces reshaping the legal industry. Part One and Part Two covered the macro dynamics of the AI industrial revolution and also the bending of UPL as consumers turn to AI products such as ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity for legal advice. Consumer behavior will lead, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/clio-launches-clio-capital-to-provide-fast-low-friction-financing-for-law-firms.html Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:03:30 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52618 Clio has officially launched Clio Capital, a financing program designed exclusively for law firms that use the company’s practice management platform. The product, which went live Feb. 26, provides eligible law firms with pre-qualified access to working capital through a streamlined application process directly within the Clio platform, bypassing the paperwork-heavy, rejection-prone process that has […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/mary-technology-raises-a7m-to-bring-fact-management-platform-to-u-s-market.html Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:59:16 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52616 An Australian legal tech startup that has built what it describes as the first fact management system for litigation is announcing a A$7 million seed round and its expansion into the United States, including the opening of a San Francisco office and the launch of a self-serve platform aimed at smaller law firms. Mary Technology, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/legal-tech-vendors-roll-out-wave-of-announcements-ahead-of-legalweek-news-from-disco-advocacy-imanage-monjur-reveal-and-chronotracer-and-align.html Sun, 08 Mar 2026 14:05:30 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52607 With Legalweek 2026 set to open Monday in New York City, legal technology companies have been rolling out a string of product announcements and company news in the days leading up to the conference. The pre-conference wave covers a range of developments, from new AI platforms and funding rounds to enhancements in e-discovery tools and […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/lawnext-on-location-at-a-sonoma-winery-a-conversation-with-briefpoint-ceo-nathan-walter-about-discovery-disruption-and-of-course-wine.html Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:48:54 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52599 Continuing my on-location interview tour of San Francisco, I head an hour north to Santa Rosa to sit down with Nathan Walter, cofounder and CEO of Briefpoint, over a bottle of red wine at Paradise Ridge Winery, a spot literally around the corner from Nathan’s house, sitting on the edge of the Mayacamas Mountain Range […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/universal-migrator-releases-scripts-that-migrate-docuware-legal-server-and-alfresco-to-imanage-sharepoint-and-netdocuments.html Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:07:55 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52597 With each month, Universal Migrator’s library becomes more comprehensive. Universal Migrator has released new data migration scripts that help legal technology consultants migrate law firms from DocuWare, Legal Server, and Alfresco into major document management systems including iManage, Microsoft SharePoint, and NetDocuments. With these additions, Universal Migrator’s script library now supports 141+ applications, spanning practice […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/ai-legal-research-startup-descrybe-launches-legal-reasoning-tool-says-it-outperforms-chatgpt-claude-and-gemini-on-bar-exam-benchmark.html Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:00:22 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52584 The AI legal research startup Descrybe today launched a “legal reasoning” product, DescrybeLM, that it says outperforms leading general-purpose AI models on a standardized legal reasoning benchmark — and it is publishing the methodology and scoring data to invite scrutiny. The company also launched an all-new website that features the new product while also retaining […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/ai-adoption-among-legal-professionals-has-more-than-doubled-in-a-year-new-8am-report-finds-but-firms-lag-far-behind-individual-practitioners.html Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:00:30 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52579 Nearly seven in 10 legal professionals now use generative AI tools for work — a figure that more than doubled in a single year — but the majority of law firms still lack formal AI policies or training programs, according to the 2026 Legal Industry Report released by 8am, the legal technology company behind LawPay, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/lexisnexis-confirms-data-breach-reports-say-hackers-claim-access-to-government-and-law-firm-user-data.html Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:37:26 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52569 LexisNexis Legal & Professional has confirmed that hackers breached its servers and accessed customer and business information, after a threat actor calling itself FulcrumSec publicly posted stolen files and a detailed account of the intrusion. (This story was updated after receiving a statement from LexisNexis.) According to news reports from BleepingComputer, TechRadar, and others, the […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/american-arbitration-association-launches-resolution-simulator-expanding-its-ai-arbitrator-tool.html Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:00:58 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52566 The American Arbitration Association is launching a new AI-powered tool called the Resolution Simulator, which builds on the organization’s previously launched AI Arbitrator to provide simulated, nonbinding dispute outcomes before formal arbitration proceedings begin. The Resolution Simulator is designed for single-party use in documents-only commercial and construction disputes. Users submit their materials and receive an […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/paladin-and-pli-partner-to-connect-law-students-with-pro-bono-training-and-opportunities.html Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:00:45 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52552 Paladin, a pro bono management platform, and Practising Law Institute (PLI), a nonprofit legal education provider, have announced a partnership aimed at integrating skills training with pro bono work for law students. Under the arrangement, law students using Paladin’s platform to find pro bono placements will also have access to PLI’s on-demand training programs. The […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/as-womens-history-month-kicks-off-aderant-makes-history-of-a-sort-naming-its-first-female-cro.html Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:00:03 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52540 March is Women’s History Month and, as it kicks off, the legal business software company Aderant is announcing an executive appointment that is historic, at least within the context of this nearly 50-year-old company — its first female chief revenue officer. Aderant today said it has named Aisling Fenelon to that position. A veteran of more […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/augusts-new-live-assist-lets-lawyers-be-active-listeners-and-active-fact-checkers.html Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:00:28 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52537 In every deposition, client call or witness prep session, there is an inherent tension. The more focused attorneys are on listening, the less bandwidth they have to simultaneously verify what is being said against the record. Conversely, the more they are mentally cross-referencing documents, the less present they are in what is being said. August, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/universal-migrator-releases-scripts-to-migrate-tussman-collectmax-and-leaddocket-to-clio-mycase-litify-and-lawmatics.html Thu, 26 Feb 2026 21:44:08 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52534 Universal Migrator has released new data migration scripts that help legal technology consultants migrate law firms from Tussman, CollectMax and LeadDocket into major platforms including Clio, MyCase, Litify, and Lawmatics. With these additions, Universal Migrator’s script library now supports 138+ applications, spanning practice management, CRM, billing/accounting, and document management systems.   About Universal Migrator Universal […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/exclusive-confido-legal-raises-9-million-to-expand-embedded-payments-and-disbursements-for-law-firms.html Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:30:58 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52523 Confido Legal, an embedded payments platform built specifically for law firms and the legal technology companies that serve them, has raised $9 million in financing across two rounds, the company told LawNext in an exclusive advance interview. The latest and larger of the two rounds was led by Aquiline Capital Partners, a global private investment […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/lawnext-on-location-the-view-from-tiburon-a-conversation-with-pablo-arredondo-casetext-cofounder.html Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:50:51 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52515 As I continue my LawNext on Location series – all recorded live in the San Francisco area at locations of each guest’s choosing – he sits down with Pablo Arredondo at his home in Tiburon, a quaint Marin County town with a history stretching from Mexican land grants to naval outposts to a southern railway […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/three-years-after-launching-as-first-ai-legal-assistant-cocounsel-reaches-1-million-users-and-thomson-reuters-teases-whats-ahead.html Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:00:01 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52504 CoCounsel, which launched almost exactly three years ago, on March 1, 2023, as the first AI legal assistant built on GPT-4, today marked a notable milestone, reaching 1 million customers across 107 countries and territories. Developed by legal research startup Casetext, Thomson Reuters acquired CoCounsel (and Casetext) just four months after its release, for a […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/lexisnexis-launches-lexis-with-protege-replacing-lexis-ai-with-an-end-to-end-workflow-platform.html Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:00:33 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52500 You can bid adieu to Lexis+ AI. LexisNexis is today announcing the general availability in the United States of Lexis+ with Protégé, an integrated flagship platform that  fully replaces Lexis+ AI — which the company now describes as its “first-generation AI experience” — and brings a significantly expanded set of AI workflow capabilities to legal […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/sirion-completes-majority-investment-from-haveli-aiming-to-accelerate-ai-push-in-clm-market.html Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:00:35 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52490 Sirion, an AI-native contract lifecycle management platform, has completed a majority investment from Austin-based private equity firm Haveli Investments, the companies announced today. With Haveli’s partnership, Sirion said, it will aim to accelerate product innovation, expand its global go-to-market presence, and enable organizations to move from static contract repositories to intelligent, workflow-driven contracting. “Sirion is […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/arizona-republic-investigation-finds-consumer-harm-loopholes-and-conflicts-of-interest-in-arizonas-legal-regulatory-reform.html Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:06:08 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52435 An in-depth investigation by The Arizona Republic has found that Arizona’s pioneering program allowing nonlawyers to own law firms — a reform long championed by access-to-justice advocates — has become riddled with consumer complaints, legal loopholes, financial conflicts of interest and inadequate oversight. In a series of investigative articles, Republic journalist Laura Gersony paints a […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/lawnext-on-location-lunch-with-alex-su-of-latitude-legal-in-alameda-calif.html Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:56:08 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52481 While I am visiting San Francisco for two weeks, I am sitting down for conversations with legal tech innovators and entrepreneurs “in their natural habitats” – places in the Bay Area they consider special. Today, in the first in this series, I sit down for lunch with Alex Su, chief revenue officer at Latitude Legal, over Thai […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/universal-migrator-reduces-pricing-on-migration-tools-for-imanage-sharepoint-and-netdocuments.html Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:28:24 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52478 Universal Migrator today announced reduced pricing for access to its migration script library covering iManage, Microsoft SharePoint, and NetDocuments, lowering the cost barrier for legal technology consultants performing document management system transitions. Access to the script library now starts at $3,500, with no additional fees no matter how many migrations are performed or the size […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/altaclaro-and-verbit-launch-deposim-an-ai-powered-deposition-simulator-for-litigators.html Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:15:44 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52467 AltaClaro, the legal training company that builds simulation-based experiential learning, is today launching DepoSim, an AI-powered deposition simulator developed in partnership with Verbit.ai, the verbal intelligence and transcription technology company. The product is designed to give litigators unlimited, on-demand opportunities to practice conducting depositions in realistic scenarios, then receive structured, objective feedback on how well […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/simpledocs-launches-contract-intelligence-layer-putting-policy-precedent-and-market-data-inside-microsoft-word.html Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:30:47 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52459 SimpleDocs today announced the launch of what it is calling its Contract Intelligence Layer, an advanced benchmarking feature that integrates a law department’s internal policies, historical contract precedent and verified market standards directly inside the Microsoft Word add-in where lawyers are already doing their work. The launch builds on the company’s September 2025 acquisition of […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/harvey-partners-with-well-harvey-its-namesake-as-brand-spokesperson.html Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:00:20 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52449 The legal AI company Harvey said today that it has partnered with Harvey — the original one. The Harvey in question — the non-AI one, that is — is Gabriel Macht, the actor who played the role of lawyer Harvey Specter in the television series Suits. Harvey — the AI one — is named for […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/the-votes-are-in-here-are-the-15-legal-tech-startups-selected-for-the-2026-startup-alley-at-aba-techshow.html Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:57:02 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52439 The results are in! Voting has now closed and your votes have been tallied to pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to participate as finalists in the 10th-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW, March 25-28, 2026, in Chicago. These 15 finalists will face off in an opening-night pitch competition that is the opening […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/down-to-the-wire-tomorrow-is-the-deadline-vote-now-for-your-favorite-legal-tech-startups-to-go-to-startup-alley-at-aba-techshow.html Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:00:22 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52424 Tomorrow, Friday, Feb. 13, is the deadline to vote. Your votes determine the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the 10th-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW. Below are the standings so far, ranked by total votes received. Which of these companies will end up lucky on Friday the 13th? Remember, your votes determine […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/8am-expands-lawpay-into-full-financial-management-platform-for-law-firms-with-payments-billing-and-reporting.html Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:00:38 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52429 The company formerly known as AffiniPay continues its evolution under the 8am brand, today announcing the expansion of its LawPay payments platform into what it says is a complete financial management solution for law firms. The expanded 8am LawPay now unites payments, invoicing, time tracking, expense management and financial reporting into a single workspace, aiming […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/in-a-marriage-of-legal-editing-tools-briefcatch-has-acquired-wordrake-and-its-12-editing-patents.html Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:03:46 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52385 When it comes to standalone editing software for legal professionals, there have been basically three choices: BriefCatch, WordRake, and PerfectIt. Now that list is one shorter, as BriefCatch has acquired WordRake. According to Ross Guberman, founder of BriefCatch, his company has acquired WordRake’s core product and technology assets. The WordRake product will be integrated into […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/legalgain-shares-findings-in-whitepaper-on-structural-requirements-for-ai-legal-research.html Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:22:16 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52413 Legalgain has released Integrity Meets Intelligence: The Training Data and Domain Architecture Standards for Agentic Legal Research, a whitepaper examining the data and architectural requirements necessary for AI systems to perform reliable legal research. The analysis outlines why many current legal AI tools fall short on accuracy and defensibility, and identifies the structural conditions required […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/friday-is-the-deadline-to-vote-here-are-the-current-standings-vote-now-to-pick-the-15-startups-that-will-go-to-startup-alley-at-aba-techshow-in-march.html Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:00:41 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52406 This Friday, Feb. 13, is the deadline to vote. Your votes determine the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the 10th-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW. Below are the standings so far, ranked by total votes received. Which of these companies will end up lucky on Friday the 13th? Remember, your votes determine […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/disco-launches-scaled-agentic-ai-tool-for-large-discovery-and-fact-investigation-matters.html Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:29:22 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52398 Calling it “the industry’s first scaled agentic AI tool for fact investigation and e-discovery,” DISCO today announced an agentic AI enhancement to its Cecilia Q&A tool, which the company says is designed to handle large-scale e-discovery matters with millions of documents and terabytes of data. The Austin-based legal technology company’s new tool adds what it […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/todays-legaltech-week-the-claude-pocalypse-ai-agents-gone-wild-and-much-more-all-live-at-3-et.html Fri, 06 Feb 2026 13:56:52 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52391 As I wrote earlier this week, it was the shot heard ’round the world, as AI company Anthropic, developer of Claude, launched a legal app and seemingly caused legal tech stocks to plummet. Meanwhile, AI agents now have their own social network, Moltbook, while another new site is enabling them to rent humans to do […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/guest-post-ken-crutchfield-on-10-reasons-the-market-overreacted-to-claudes-legal-skills-announcement.html Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:21:41 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52380 When Anthropic announced legal skills inside its Cowork environment this week, shares of Thomson Reuters, Reed Elsevier, and Wolters Kluwer tanked. Investors appeared to price in a new competitive threat from Claude. But Ken Crutchfield believes the market got it wrong. “I feel the market reaction does not reflect the reality of the situation,” he […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/masters-ai-taps-cat-casey-to-anchor-its-new-global-legal-ai-conference-series-and-learning-ecosystem.html Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:00:25 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52374 The Masters Conference, which just two months ago announced new leadership and plans to launch a new division, Masters AI Legal, today announced that it has partnered with Cat Casey, founder of The TechnoCat, a consulting and speaking practice focused on legal AI, and former chief growth officer at Reveal. Casey will anchor Masters AI […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/anthropics-legal-plugin-for-claude-cowork-may-be-the-opening-salvo-in-a-competition-between-foundation-models-and-legal-tech-incumbents.html Tue, 03 Feb 2026 19:55:32 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52368 To read today’s news, you’d think it was the shot heard ’round the world — or around the legal tech world, at least. “Legal software companies have suffered sharp declines in their share prices,” reports The Guardian. “Anthropic’s Move Into Legal, Data Services Sinks Software Stocks,” says Bloomberg. “A selloff in … stocks deepened on […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/lsc-issues-blueprint-for-narrowing-the-justice-gap-through-technology-innovation-in-civil-legal-services.html Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:37:30 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52361 In 2013, the Legal Services Corporation published the landmark study, Report of The Summit on the Use of Technology to Expand Access to Justice. The report forcefully made the case that technology could be a powerful – indeed, essential – tool in narrowing the justice gap, and its recommendations helped shape the last decade of […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/at-the-legal-services-corporations-innovation-conference-talk-of-radical-collaboration-cutting-edge-ai-and-doing-more-with-what-you-have.html Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:02:14 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52340 In video remarks that opened the second day of the Legal Services Corporation’s annual Innovations in Technology Conference in San Antonio last week, Bridget Mary McCormack, president and CEO of the American Arbitration Association and former chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, urged attendees to engage in “radical collaboration.” “AI alone won’t close the […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/02/with-two-weeks-left-to-vote-here-are-the-standings-for-aba-techshows-startup-alley.html Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:05:36 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52338 With just two weeks left to pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the 10th-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW, below are the standings so far, ranked by total votes received. Remember, your votes determine the 15 companies that get the opportunity to face off in a live pitch competition on the […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/guest-post-in-the-second-of-his-three-part-series-ken-crutchfield-looks-at-whether-upl-will-hit-the-breaking-point-in-2026.html Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:57:34 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52326 Where does all the pressure building in legal tech concentrate? On unauthorized practice of law (UPL), says Ken Crutchfield — and something’s got to give. In Part 1 of his series on “The New Physics of Legal Tech,” Crutchfield examined the macro forces shaping the industry. Now, in Part 2, he zeroes in on the […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/lawnext-from-customer-to-acquirer-filevines-ryan-anderson-and-pincites-sona-sulakian-on-building-ai-contract-intelligence.html Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:54:14 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52329 In this episode of LawNext, we talk with Ryan Anderson, co-founder and CEO of Filevine, and Sona Sulakian, former CEO and co-founder of Pincites, about Filevine’s acquisition of the AI-powered contract redlining company. The deal, which closed in December, marks Filevine’s second major AI acquisition of the year. Even more notably for this traditionally litigation-focused […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/ai-video-tools-depict-lawyers-and-judges-as-women-at-far-lower-rates-than-real-life-new-study-finds.html Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:24:19 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52308 A new study examining bias in AI-generated video reveals that the leading AI video creation tools significantly underrepresent women in the legal profession, depicting female lawyers at rates far below their actual numbers in the workforce. AI videos also underrepresent lawyers of color, although by a lesser percentage. According to research published by Kapwing, which […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/evenup-launches-ai-communication-agents-to-handle-routine-tasks-in-pi-cases-also-enhances-its-ai-drafting.html Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:45:12 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52300 EvenUp, a company that specializes in AI tools for personal injury law practices, today launched Communication Agents, AI-powered voice and text assistants designed to automate routine communications in PI case management. The company also announced enhancements to its AI drafting capabilities. The company announced the new features during a keynote by cofounder Saam Mashhad at […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/can-ai-agents-settle-pi-cases-mighty-says-they-can-and-have-as-it-launches-free-direct-to-consumer-platform-to-resolve-accident-claims.html Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:49:17 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52252 Joshua Schwadron is fed up with personal injury lawyers’ failure to pass on to their clients the savings they realize from technology. He is so fed up, in fact, that he is pivoting his legal technology company Mighty – which he originally launched to serve PI lawyers – to bypass those lawyers and go direct […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/aiming-to-make-ai-more-easily-accessible-for-smaller-law-firms-legal-ai-company-august-launches-self-service-platform-and-free-educational-library.html Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:16:46 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52271 Aiming to remove the sales-cycle obstacles that have kept generative AI tools out of reach for many solo and smaller-firm lawyers, August today launched immediate self-service access to its legal AI platform, including a two-week free trial, alongside a comprehensive library of over 100 video tutorials. For the first time, the company says, smaller law […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/zebraworks-launches-dataq-ai-to-help-law-firms-accelerate-cash-flow-through-ai-driven-revenue-analytics.html Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:55:43 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52275 Zebraworks today announced the launch of DataQ AI, an artificial intelligence-powered analytics platform designed to help law firms identify and address revenue cycle issues before they impact cash flow. The new product, part of the company’s Invoices-to-Cash suite, analyzes billing and collections activity, accounts receivable, trust and retainer balances, and client payment patterns to surface […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/litera-expands-kiras-ai-capabilities-with-hybrid-gen-ai-proprietary-approach-to-contract-review.html Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:00:11 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52263 Litera is significantly enhancing Kira, its AI-powered contract review platform, with new capabilities designed to address the growing demands for speed, accuracy and trusted generative AI in contract review work, the company announced today. The enhanced version of Kira combines gen AI with proprietary AI models trained on over one million legal contracts to deliver […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/legal-tech-leaders-join-other-legal-professionals-in-open-letter-supporting-the-rule-of-law.html Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:01:13 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52266 A number of leaders from the legal technology community are joining other legal professionals in an open letter supporting the rule of law. “Lawyers, judges, and government officials all take an oath to support and defend the constitution,” the letter says. “We write at a moment when constitutional rights and legal norms, long considered stable, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/orbital-raises-60m-series-b-to-automate-real-estate-law-with-ai-and-fuel-u-s-expansion.html Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:36:12 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52260 London-based real estate legal AI platform Orbital has raised $60 million in Series B funding to expand its presence in the U.S. market and build what it envisions as a comprehensive workspace for real estate legal work. The round was led by New York-based growth fund Brighton Park Capital, with participation from a diverse group […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/have-you-voted-yet-time-is-running-to-pick-the-15-finalists-for-startup-alley-at-aba-techshow.html Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:10:08 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52258 The deadline is fast approaching to pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the 10th-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW in Chicago, March 25-28, 2026. Your votes determine the 15 companies that get the opportunity to face off in a live pitch competition that is the opening-night event of this year’s TECHSHOW. […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/universal-migrator-offers-free-access-to-edocs-migration-tools-in-wake-of-netdocuments-edocs-acquisition.html Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:34:43 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52242 Last week, NetDocuments announced the acquisition of OpenText eDocs, marking a shift in the document management landscape for law firms. In response to this development, Universal Migrator has announced that it is making its complete library of eDocs migration tools available to all NetDocuments consultants globally at no cost. Universal Migrator’s decision is designed to […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/eve-launches-ai-workforce-to-reshape-the-pi-firm-org-chart-not-replacing-lawyers-but-freeing-them-for-higher-level-work.html Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:59:23 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52200 Amid the ongoing debate over whether AI will replace lawyers, the legal tech company Eve is offering a different answer: It won’t replace them, but it will autonomously handle much of the routine work they used to do themselves, to give them more time for higher-value legal work. The company has unveiled Eve 2.0, which […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/lexisnexis-launches-preview-of-protege-ai-workflows-with-hundreds-of-pre-built-tools-and-custom-workflow-builder.html Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:03:50 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52217 LexisNexis Legal & Professional today announced the commercial preview launch in the United States of a comprehensive set of hundreds of AI workflows within its LexisNexis Protégé AI assistant. The launch combines hundreds of pre-built litigation and transactional workflows with a custom workflow builder in what the company describes as an integrated, private, and secure […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/london-based-antidote-raises-5m-to-automate-law-firm-billing-compliance-and-drive-u-s-expansion.html Wed, 21 Jan 2026 08:00:57 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52212 Antidote, an AI-powered billing compliance platform for law firms, announced today it has raised $5 million in seed funding led by Lakestar, with participation from Concept Ventures, The LegalTech Fund, and several unnamed industry angels. The round brings the London-based company’s total funding to $7 million, following a $2 million pre-seed round in 2025. The […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/lawnext-from-roommates-to-billionaires-harveys-founders-gabriel-pereyra-and-winston-weinberg-on-building-ai-infrastructure-for-law.html Tue, 20 Jan 2026 18:03:01 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52207 Gabriel Pereyra and Winston Weinberg started legal AI company Harvey in 2022 as roommates in a San Francisco apartment. Pereyra had been working on AI research at Meta and Google, while Weinberg was a first-year litigation associate at O’Melveny & Myers. Today, they still share that same apartment, but their company has grown into a […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/litera-brings-agentic-ai-to-mobile-with-new-ios-app-for-litera-one-platform.html Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:00:36 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52196 Litera today launched an iOS mobile app for Litera One, its AI-enabled legal platform, extending its agentic AI capabilities to iPhone and iPad devices with what the company describes as “true two-way continuity” between desktop and mobile environments. The app addresses a practical challenge facing lawyers who need to maintain productivity across multiple devices and […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/alexi-fires-back-at-fastcase-lawsuit-with-counterclaims-alleging-anticompetitive-conduct-following-clios-1b-acquisition.html Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:20:49 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52187 Alexi Technologies has filed its answer and counterclaim against Fastcase, vLex, and Clio, accusing the newly merged legal technology giant of manufacturing breach-of-contract allegations as a pretext to eliminate a competitor in the AI legal research market. In December, Fastcase, now owned by Clio, sued Alexi in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/did-you-miss-the-legaltech-week-2026-predictions-show-no-worries-heres-the-recording.html Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:31:15 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52184 What’s in store for legal tech and innovation in 2026? That was the topic of our most recent Legaltech Week live show, in which our panel of legal tech journalists shared their predictions for the year ahead. But if you missed it, no problem. Here are both the video and audio recordings. Remember, our show […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/a-clio-doubleheader-cmo-reagan-attle-and-vp-of-payments-a-j-axelrod.html Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:42:55 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52180 In the last in a series of interviews recorded during the ClioCon conference in Boston in October 2025, we bring you a doubleheader – two interviews with two of the legal tech company’s key executives.  In the first, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi speaks with Reagan Attle, chief marketing officer at Clio since 2017. In a […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/dyspute-ai-launches-adri-v2-a-24-7-asynchronous-ai-mediation-platform.html Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:12:06 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52164 I have had a strong interest in online dispute resolution ever since at least 1996, when I wrote what I was later told was the first published article about ODR, Cyberspace Becomes Forum for Resolving Disputes. I was so curious about the concept that, in 1999, I put that interest to work, becoming a mediator […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/ai-startup-alphalit-raises-3-2m-seed-round-to-screen-and-score-smaller-cases-and-route-them-to-lawyers.html Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:00:06 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52155 Over $55 million worth of meritorious civil claims go unfiled annually, particularly in working-class communities, because over 64% of prospective plaintiffs’ calls to law firms are ignored, says legal AI startup AlphaLit. The reason firms ignore those calls is that they cannot financially justify vetting all those small cases. “You might need to have 100 […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/voting-is-now-open-pick-the-15-finalists-to-compete-at-startup-alley-at-aba-techshow-2026-in-march.html Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:00:56 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52113 With this post, voting is now officially open! Help pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the 10th-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW, March 25-28, 2026. Your votes determine the 15 companies selected to face off in a live pitch competition that will be the opening-night event of this year’s TECHSHOW in […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/relativity-launches-air-for-case-strategy-to-extract-and-organize-key-facts-using-generative-ai.html Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:21:39 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52111 Relativity today announced the general availability of aiR for Case Strategy, a generative AI-powered product designed to help lawyers and litigation professionals develop case narratives faster by automatically extracting facts, building chronologies and generating strategic work product from evidence. The legal data intelligence company said the tool enables legal teams to auto-extract key facts from […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/dean-sonderegger-returns-to-law-to-lead-wolters-kluwers-elm-solutions-business.html Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:00:27 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52127 Dean Sonderegger is returning to the legal market in a new leadership role at Wolters Kluwer, the company announced today. Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory has appointed Sonderegger as senior vice president and general manager of its ELM Solutions business, marking his return to the legal sector after a three-year stint leading other divisions within […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/today-the-legaltech-week-2026-predictions-show-live-at-3-p-m-eastern.html Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:03:19 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52104 What’s ahead for legal tech and innovation in 2026? In today’s live broadcast of Legaltech Week, our panel of  journalists and experts will share their predictions for the year ahead. We will also look back at our predictions from last year — and see how we did. The show is live today at 3 p.m. […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/harvey-announces-plan-to-develop-memory-enabling-users-to-retain-context-for-more-consistent-work.html Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:42:32 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52090 Legal AI company Harvey today announced plans to develop Memory, a product that will allow users to choose to retain and carry forward the context of their work, including matter details, relevant precedent, working preferences and approved best practices, with the goal of enabling users to achieve greater consistency, efficiency and connectedness. The company also […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/the-10-legal-tech-trends-that-defined-2025.html Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:23:51 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52085 The year 2025 marked a genuine inflection point in legal technology – the moment when AI moved from experimental novelty to operational necessity, when a billion-dollar deal reshaped the competitive landscape, and when regulatory reform appeared to gain renewed momentum. As I look back over the stories I have covered this year, they chronicle an […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/on-lawnext-fastcase-founder-ed-walters-on-the-implications-of-clios-acquisition-of-vlex.html Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:41:52 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52051 The biggest deal of 2025 – in fact, the biggest deal ever in legal tech – was legal tech company Clio’s acquisition of vLex for $1 billion. A global legal research company founded in Spain, vLex had, just two years earlier, merged with the U.S. legal research company Fastcase, and the union of those two […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/legal-tech-spending-surges-9-7-as-firms-race-to-integrate-ai-says-report-on-state-of-legal-market.html Wed, 07 Jan 2026 19:28:32 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52077 Law firms dramatically accelerated their technology investments in 2025, with spending on tech and knowledge management tools growing 9.7% and 10.5% respectively — the fastest real growth likely ever experienced in the legal industry, according to the newly released 2026 Report on the State of the US Legal Market from Thomson Reuters and Georgetown Law’s […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/01/henry-dicker-longtime-leader-of-alms-legaltech-conferences-joins-masters-legalai.html Tue, 06 Jan 2026 13:33:48 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52067 Last month, I reported on key hires and a rebranding at The Masters Conference, a legal education and thought leadership forum, as it announced its new identity as Masters LegalAI and brought on legal industry veteran Kevin Vermeulen as its new chief executive officer, along with Mike Dalewitz, a veteran e-discovery entrepreneur, as its executive chairman. Now, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/12/guest-post-ken-crutchfield-reads-the-tea-leaves-for-legal-tech-in-2026.html Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:41:46 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52044 Forget the bold predictions. Ken Crutchfield is focusing on something more fundamental: the physics of the legal tech market. In the wake of a banner 2025 — with Harvey hitting an $8 billion valuation, Filevine raising $400 million, and Clio’s acquisition of vLex — it is tempting to either celebrate the boom or fret about […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/12/breaking-briefcatch-raises-6m-series-a-to-accelerate-acquisitions-and-development.html Mon, 29 Dec 2025 14:52:30 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52035 BriefCatch, a legal technology company devoted to helping legal professionals improve their legal writing, has raised a $6 million Series A led by the growth equity investing firm Full In. BriefCatch says the round comes amid its highest revenue growth rate to date, with 126% net enterprise revenue retention among large law-firm customers. The start-up’s […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/12/final-reminder-last-day-for-startup-alley-applications-if-you-are-a-legal-tech-startup-apply-today.html Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:26:04 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52040 Attention all legal tech startups: This is your final reminder. Today is the last day to apply for a spot in the 10th annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW. This competition that has helped catapult the success of a long list of legal technology startups and become a seminal event of the American Bar Association’s annual […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/12/guest-post-the-promise-of-ai-in-legal-has-landed-but-not-in-the-way-people-thought-it-would.html Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:46:17 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52026 Augment or empower? The new split in AI for legal. There are still no “AI lawyers,” no bots running matters end to end or standing up in court.  What we’re seeing instead is far more interesting: hundreds of focused solutions that chip away at specific problems. Taken together, they’re quietly reshaping the way legal work […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/12/exclusive-filevine-acquires-pincites-ai-powered-contract-redlining-company-strengthening-its-positioning-for-corporate-legal-and-enhancing-its-ai.html Mon, 22 Dec 2025 14:00:30 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52021 Legal technology company Filevine has acquired Pincites, an AI-powered contract redlining company, in a deal that moves the company further into corporate and transactional law, complementing its strong presence in litigation, and that furthers its AI strategy. The deal marks Filevine’s second major AI acquisition of 2025, following its April acquisition of Parrot, a platform […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/12/its-the-legal-tech-2025-year-in-review-live-today-on-legal-tech-week-join-us.html Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:34:47 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52012 What were the top stories and trends of 2025 in legal tech and legal innovation? Join us today on Legaltech Week as the leading legal tech journalists and bloggers wrap up the year’s top stories and trends — all live today at 3 p.m. Eastern time. The show is live on Zoom. It’s all free, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/12/court-denies-alexis-emergency-motion-to-restore-access-to-fastcase-data.html Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:07:04 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52003 In an early win for legal research company Fastcase in its data-licensing lawsuit against AI legal research platform Alexi, a federal judge has denied Alexi’s emergency request for a temporary restraining order that would have compelled Fastcase to restore Alexi’s access to its proprietary legal database. In Washington, D.C., U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/12/questel-integrates-ai-powered-patent-translation-services-with-equinox-ip-management-platform.html Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:50:40 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=51985 Questel, a Paris-based global provider of intellectual property software and services, has integrated its patent translation services with its Equinox IP management software and other third-party IP systems through newly created connectors, the company said today. The integration allows patent professionals to initiate translation cases and track progress directly from within their IP management platforms. […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2025/12/aba-task-force-ai-has-moved-from-experiment-to-infrastructure-for-the-legal-profession.html Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:00:24 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=51978 Artificial intelligence is no longer an abstract or experimental technology for lawyers – it is rapidly becoming core infrastructure for law practice, courts, legal education and access-to-justice efforts, and the legal profession must now shift its focus from whether to use AI to how to govern, supervise and integrate it responsibly. That is the central […]]]>