https://www.lawnext.com/ Tracking new and intriguing websites and products for the legal profession. Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:18:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.6 https://www.lawnext.com/2026/07/legal-research-startup-midpage-crosses-another-threshold-of-coverage-adding-federal-and-state-statutes-regulations-and-agency-guidance.html Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:00:06 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53854 It was just 18 months ago that I wrote about the legal research startup Midpage passing what its founder considered a critical threshold in its development, achieving full data coverage of key U.S. case law. Now the company is crossing another threshold, adding full coverage of the other major chunk of primary law — statutes, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/07/microsofts-own-legal-department-will-use-harvey-as-the-two-companies-deepen-their-alliance.html Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:30:44 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53862 Microsoft’s legal department is becoming a Harvey customer. The legal AI company Harvey announced today that Microsoft’s Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs (CELA) organization — the roughly 2,000-person unit that houses the company’s lawyers and compliance professionals — will use the Harvey platform to support its legal and compliance operations. As part of the same […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/07/entegrata-hires-simpson-thacher-ai-leader-andrew-baker-to-head-new-ai-enablement-product-line.html Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:00:18 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53850 The legal data company Entegrata, whose data lakehouse platform helps law firms consolidate siloed data into a single source of truth, has hired Andrew Baker, who for more than five years led applied AI and data science at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, as its first chief AI and data strategy officer, where he will lead […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/07/built-by-lawyers-for-lawyers-dingduff-is-a-free-claude-connector-that-its-founders-say-rivals-the-legal-research-giants.html Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:25:17 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53835 Two practicing lawyers in Austin, Texas, have built a free connector that plugs Claude directly into millions of court opinions, statutes, regulations and court rules, along with federal court filings via PACER — and they say that, in their own testing, it matches and sometimes beats the Westlaw AI accounts their firms pay for. The […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/07/law-democratized-renee-knake-jefferson-on-her-blueprint-for-solving-the-justice-crisis.html Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:17:50 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53817 Martin Luther King famously said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” My guest today quoted his words in her 2024 book, Law Democratized: A Blueprint for Solving the Justice Crisis. But now, two years after that book’s publication — at a moment when many see the rule of […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/07/whats-in-a-wrapper-comparing-a-hershey-bar-to-legaltech-ai.html Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:56:30 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53824 Anyone can make sweets, but not everyone can make a Hershey bar. The debate over legaltech startups offering nothing more than a “thin wrapper” around an LLM begs a deeper analysis of the value of a wrapper, particularly as open-source alternatives take root. Let’s start with a Hershey bar. You pay for the chocolate, right? […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/07/intapp-makes-celeste-generally-available-calling-it-an-ai-coworker-to-run-the-business-side-of-law-firms.html Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:15:57 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53809 Intapp, the publicly traded company whose software manages intake, conflicts, and deal workflows for law firms and other professional services firms, yesterday announced the general availability of Celeste, an agentic AI product it describes as an “expert AI coworker” designed to run the business operations of a firm — from deal screening and conflicts clearance […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/07/relativity-president-chris-brown-on-the-gavel-acquisition-opening-up-to-claude-and-the-gangbusters-growth-of-air.html Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:31:07 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53803 Last week, Relativity announced that Chris Brown, its chief product officer since 2018, had been named the company’s president, effective July 13. In the new role, Brown continues to lead Relativity’s product organization while adding marketing and technology partnerships to his scope — a change that coincides with the departure of Chief Marketing Officer Cristina […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/07/i-couldnt-get-it-out-of-my-mind-chris-cartrett-on-why-he-is-leaving-aderant-and-legal-tech.html Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:36:49 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53795 When I spoke with Chris Cartrett yesterday, just hours after reporting that he will step down Aug. 1 as president and CEO of Aderant, he was emphatic that his departure, after 12 years at the company, including five as CEO, was not about wanting to leave. “It’s not a matter of wanting to leave Aderant,” […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/07/legal-decoder-introduces-aperture-a-natural-language-interface-for-querying-legal-billing-data.html Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:03:11 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53770 Legal Decoder, a legal spend analytics company whose billing-review technology has been relied on by Fortune 500 companies and Am Law 100 firms, as well as fee examiners in major federal bankruptcy cases, is today launching Aperture, a natural language interface that lets law firms and legal departmentss conversationally query legal billing and spend data […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/07/litera-relaunches-its-brand-around-a-unified-vision-one-ai-agent-spanning-the-practice-and-business-of-law.html Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:01:14 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53774 Litera, one of the most broadly deployed technology companies in the legal industry, is today unveiling a company-wide relaunch that positions it as the legal AI platform unifying the practice and business of law through one AI agent and one dataset. The relaunch — going live today at litera.com — includes a new brand identity, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/07/chris-cartrett-to-step-down-as-ceo-of-aderant-departing-legal-tech-to-lead-public-safety-software-company-former-ceo-deane-price-to-return-on-interim-basis.html Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:00:57 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53752 In a major leadership change at one of legal technology’s largest companies, Chris Cartrett will step down as president and CEO of Aderant, effective Aug. 1, the company announced today. He is leaving the legal industry to become chief executive officer of ImageTrend, a provider of software and data analytics for emergency medical services, fire […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/07/exclusive-as-its-kaleidoscope-conference-returns-for-year-two-8am-trades-austins-cowboy-boots-for-the-las-vegas-strip-and-books-the-savannah-bananas-founder-as-keynote.html Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:00:14 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53744 Last September, when the company 8am — having successfully pulled off a major rebrand just three weeks earlier — then went on to pull off its first-ever customer conference in Austin, I wrote a review giving it high praise. Although that inaugural event was modest in size, it was big in energy, as well as […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/07/percipient-launches-certera-ai-a-blind-head-to-head-testing-ground-for-legal-ai-with-a-lawyer-voted-leaderboard-on-the-way.html Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:02:18 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53731 Which AI models are actually best at legal work? A new platform launched in beta by the alternative legal services provider Percipient aims to answer that question by letting legal professionals put the models to the test themselves, in blind, head-to-head comparisons, and all at no cost. The platform, Certera.AI, lets a user submit a […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/07/53697.html Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:40:22 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53697 R&D & AI INNOVATION The AI Productivity Inflection How the Agentic PDLC Accelerated Delivery and Drove AI Adoption R&D performance, Q1 FY2025 through Q2 FY2026 By Greg Ingino, Chief Technology Officer, Litera   Eighteen months ago, I walked out of an Hg conference in Silicon Valley knowing that how we built software was about to […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/07/uchicago-law-bans-laptops-from-1l-classrooms-as-part-of-sweeping-new-ai-strategy-for-legal-education.html Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:06:29 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53691 The University of Chicago Law School yesterday released a comprehensive AI Strategy Statement that will reshape how it teaches first-year students, how it assesses upper-level writing, and how it integrates AI tools across its curriculum — including a pilot program that will prohibit laptops, tablets and phones in all core 1L classes starting this fall. […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/07/two-years-after-launching-its-ai-assistant-archie-smokeball-rolls-out-the-next-generation-built-on-agentic-ai-and-embedded-in-word-and-outlook.html Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:32:01 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53676 Two years ago, the law practice management company Smokeball gave me an exclusive preview of its plans for an AI ecosystem spanning the full client lifecycle, anchored by an AI matter assistant called Archie, which it formally launched in July 2024. Now the company has released the next generation of Archie AI, a major overhaul […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/07/centari-launches-external-views-enabling-firms-to-share-deal-intelligence-dashboards-directly-with-clients.html Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:00:55 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53672 Centari, an AI platform for managing complex transactions, today launched External Views, a capability that allows law firms to create white-labeled dashboards and share them directly with clients. The feature builds on Centari’s Views capability, introduced earlier this year, which enables firms to analyze transaction trends, benchmark market positions, and visualize deal data across their […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/07/norm-ai-hits-unicorn-status-with-120m-series-c-at-1-2-billion-valuation.html Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:35:46 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53667 Norm Ai, the New York-based legal and compliance AI company, today announced a $120 million Series C round at a $1.2 billion valuation, crossing the unicorn threshold and joining a growing but still select club of legal AI companies valued at $1 billion or more. Khosla Ventures led the round, in its first investment in […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/07/on-lawnext-inside-claude-for-legal-anthropics-mark-pike-on-ais-next-frontier-in-law.html Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:30:59 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53659 When Anthropic launched Claude for Legal in May – more than 20 MCP connectors and a dozen practice-area plugins built specifically for legal work – it marked the company’s biggest and most explicit commitment yet to the legal industry. It also reignited a debate that’s been simmering since Anthropic’s first legal plugin briefly rattled the […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/07/fastcase-and-alexi-head-to-court-this-week-in-high-stakes-fight-over-legal-ai-caselaw-data-and-clios-1b-vlex-deal.html Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:32:01 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53648 A federal judge in Washington, D.C., will hear arguments this week in a case that could help define the rules of the road for legal AI companies that rely on licensed caselaw data. The case, Fastcase Inc. v. Alexi Technologies Inc., pending before Judge Richard J. Leon in the U.S. District Court for the District […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/07/universal-migrator-now-supports-migrations-from-more-than-170-applications.html Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:35:23 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53638 Universal Migrator has expanded its migration library to support more than 170 legal and business applications, giving legal technology consultants access to one of the industry’s broadest collections of reusable migration scripts. The expanded library enables consultants to migrate data between a wide range of practice management, document management, CRM, billing, accounting, and other business […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/07/frontline-justice-and-josef-partner-on-multi-state-rollout-of-ai-to-protect-access-to-snap-benefits.html Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:45:57 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53613 The federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, is a critical benefit that helps to alleviate food insecurity for vulnerable populations, supporting over 40 million low-income individuals, nearly three quarters of whom live at or below the federal poverty level. But recent changes to the program enacted as part of H.R. 1 (aka the Big […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/07/on-lawnext-legal-research-for-everyone-inside-the-courtlistener-claude-partnership.html Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:04:58 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53617 Last month, when Anthropic, developer of the popular AI assistant Claude, announced a major push into legal, much of the coverage in the media and the buzz on social media focused on what the announcement meant for law firms, in-house legal teams, and the legal tech ecosystem. But the less talked about side of the story […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/after-the-barbri-deal-legas-christian-lang-says-the-governance-platform-isnt-going-away-but-it-is-going-to-school.html Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:48:19 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53610 When I wrote last week about BARBRI’s acquisition of Lega, I had not yet had the chance to speak with Lega founder Christian Lang, who was traveling. So I closed that post with what was admittedly conjecture on my part – that the large-language-model governance product that defined Lega when it launched in 2023 was […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/supio-hires-coo-of-nevadas-largest-pi-firm-as-its-first-vp-of-industry-to-help-drive-innovation-strategy.html Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:07:35 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53589 Supio, the AI platform built for plaintiffs’ personal injury firms, has hired Melissa Graham, chief operating officer of Nevada’s Richard Harris Law Firm for the last 15 years, as its vice president of industry, a newly created role aimed at narrowing the gap between the people who build legal technology and the people who actually […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/at-3rd-circuit-judges-press-ross-and-thomson-reuters-on-fair-use-ai-training-and-market-harm.html Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:22:43 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53583 The closely watched copyright litigation between Thomson Reuters and ROSS Intelligence returned to the spotlight this month as a three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments over whether ROSS’s use of Westlaw headnotes to train its legal research system was protected by fair use. At oral argument June 11 in […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/perplexity-makes-its-move-into-legal-unveiling-industry-features-at-computer-for-counsel-event.html Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:43:52 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53577 Perplexity, the AI search engine known for delivering sourced answers to user queries, is making an explicit move into the legal market, rolling out legal-specific features within its agentic platform, Perplexity Computer, and positioning the product as what it calls “Computer for Counsel.” The company highlighted the legal push yesterday at an invitation-only event in […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/sapphire-legal-has-built-a-legal-platform-for-a-market-almost-no-one-else-is-chasing-the-fractional-gc.html Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:56:28 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53487 Recently I sat through a demo of a product unlike anything I’d seen before, aimed at a segment of the legal profession that legal tech companies have largely ignored – the fractional general counsel, lawyers who serve as outside in-house counsel for multiple companies too small to have their own legal departments. The product is […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/abstract-extends-its-legislative-intelligence-into-agentic-workflow-automation-with-launch-of-abstract-workers.html Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:19:41 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53566 When I wrote about Abstract in April, I reported on how the New York-based startup was making a push into the market for legislative and regulatory monitoring, alerting law firms and corporate legal teams to the bills and rules that matter to a client, even when they never mention that client’s industry by name. Now […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/thomson-reuters-ceo-steve-hasker-on-the-next-generation-of-cocounsel-the-future-of-professionals-report-and-why-tr-is-building-its-own-llm.html Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:39:14 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53548 Yesterday, Thomson Reuters made two announcements. It opened early access to the next generation of CoCounsel Legal, the most substantial reworking of its flagship legal AI assistant since the company acquired Casetext in 2023, and it released its Future of Professionals Report 2026, which warns of a widening gap between AI adoption and the value […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/lawnext-podcast-amy-juers-and-valerie-chan-on-marketing-legal-tech-in-the-age-of-ai-search.html Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:42:59 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53557 Once upon a time, a legal tech vendor’s goal in getting seen by potential customers was to rank on the first page of Google search. But in the age of AI, that is no longer enough. Now, when a potential buyer asks ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini to recommend a vendor, what matters is whether the […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/deal-intelligence-platform-centari-adds-amendment-awareness-and-deal-maps-features-that-deepen-its-multi-document-analysis.html Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:28:32 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53542 Centari, an AI platform for managing complex transactions, today launched two capabilities, Amendment Awareness and Deal Maps, that help attorneys understand how transactions change over time and how documents relate to one another. Both features further extend Centari’s platform beyond single-document review to reasoning across the multiple agreements, amendments, and ancillaries that make up a […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/thomson-reuters-opens-early-access-to-the-next-generation-of-cocounsel-legal-saying-beta-users-fing-loved-the-product.html Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:04:39 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53508 Thomson Reuters is opening early access this week to what it calls the next generation of CoCounsel Legal, the most substantial reworking of its flagship legal AI assistant since the company acquired the product as part of its 2023 purchase of Casetext — and, just as notably, a shift in how the company describes what […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/thomson-reuters-future-of-professionals-report-warns-of-widening-gap-between-ai-adoption-and-ai-value.html Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:19:19 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53513 Most professionals are now using artificial intelligence at work, but far fewer are getting much value out of it, according to new research from Thomson Reuters. And the cost of that shortfall is starting to show up in lost clients, departing talent, and a generation of professionals who may take longer to develop the independent […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/barbri-acquires-lega-completing-the-startups-pivot-from-ai-governance-to-experiential-ai-training.html Mon, 22 Jun 2026 11:57:28 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53504 BARBRI, the legal education company best known for bar exam preparation, has acquired Lega, the AI startup that launched in 2023 with a focus on large language model governance but which has been evolving into helping legal professionals develop AI fluency through practical, experiential learning. Legal was founded by Christian Lang, the former president and […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/clio-launches-two-ai-initiatives-free-tools-for-florida-lawyers-and-a-pledge-to-train-25000-professionals.html Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:46:36 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53480 In two separate announcements this week, Clio rolled out two initiatives aimed at the same problem — getting practicing lawyers comfortable with AI. One puts AI software directly into lawyers’ hands at no cost; the other tries to teach the profession how to use it. On Monday, the company announced the Legal AI Accelerator, a […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/ken-crutchfield-is-kirklands-500-million-ai-investment-really-a-bet-on-data.html Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:35:48 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53459 When Kirkland & Ellis announced a $500 million investment in AI, much of the reaction focused on the dollar amount. That much money commands attention in the legal industry. But the dollar amount may not be the most interesting part of the story. The more important questions are what is Kirkland actually buying and what […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/blackboiler-launches-veris-pairing-its-deterministic-redlining-with-generative-ai-in-microsoft-word.html Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:54:23 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53444 BlackBoiler, a company that has spent over a decade building automated redlining technology, this week launched Veris, a new platform that takes its original deterministic editing engine and supercharges it with generative AI and an agentic, chat-based interface. Running directly inside a Microsoft Word add-in, Veris allows contract-review teams to negotiate and mark up agreements […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/relativity-acquires-document-automation-company-gavel-extending-its-legal-data-platform-into-word.html Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:34:16 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53437 Relativity, the Chicago-based legal data intelligence company best known for the e-discovery and litigation platform RelativityOne, has acquired Gavel, the Los Angeles-based document automation and AI drafting company founded by Dorna Moini (pictured above). Relativity said the move will enable it to extend Relativity’s AI platform into the place where lawyers actually write, Microsoft Word. […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/this-week-saw-a-slew-of-new-legal-tech-ceos-but-why.html Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:16:34 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53429 In all my years of covering legal tech, I cannot remember a week quite like this. And I say that for a very specific reason: This week brought an unusual concentration of leadership changes at legal tech companies. Four companies announced new chief executives, and a fifth named a new president. Is that much C-suite […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/integreon-names-krishna-nacha-as-ceo-to-lead-ai-forward-growth-strategy.html Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:00:24 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53419 “We want to be the intentional multipliers which can deliver the predictable, purposeful and scalable solutions to our stakeholders.” That is the message Krishna Nacha is delivering to his employees as he steps into the role of chief executive officer of Integreon, a global provider of technology-enabled legal and business solutions. Integreon announced today that […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/eve-builds-on-ai-workforce-launch-with-eveos-an-ai-native-operational-platform-for-plaintiff-firms.html Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:45:51 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53357 Five months after introducing what it called an “AI workforce” for plaintiff law firms, legal AI company Eve is taking its next step with the launch of EveOS, which it describes as an AI-native operating system designed to run a firm’s operations across the full case lifecycle. Eve says that today’s release is the company’s […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/clio-acquires-jurisage-paving-the-way-for-canadian-launch-of-clio-work-and-other-canadian-ai-tools.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:25:36 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53403 Clio has acquired Jurisage, the Canadian legal AI and data company, in a deal it is describing as “a foundational investment in the future of legal AI in Canada. The deal brings together one of Canada’s most comprehensive AI-ready legal datasets with Clio’s “Intelligent Legal Work Platform,” the name the company uses to describe its […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/smokeballs-free-trust-accounting-program-now-reaches-more-than-900000-u-s-lawyers.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:45:34 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53395 Law practice management company Smokeball has now partnered with 28 state bar associations to offer its trust accounting and billing software free to their members — a milestone that extends the offer to more than 900,000 lawyers, or roughly two-thirds of the 1.4 million lawyers in the United States. The latest additions are The Florida […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/on-lawnext-new-casepoint-ceo-paul-colangelo-on-ai-govtech-and-the-road-ahead.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:20:39 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53400 When Thoma Bravo took a majority stake in Casepoint in January 2025 and merged it with the government-software company OPEXUS, it set the e-discovery pioneer on a broader course — deeper into the government market and squarely into FOIA and case management. Now the company has a new leader to see that course through: Paul […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/steno-names-its-current-coo-prabhdeep-singh-as-new-ceo-to-lead-next-phase-of-growth.html Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:02:14 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53360 Two years ago, Steno, a tech-enabled provider of legal support and court reporting services, named Prabhdeep Singh as its chief operating officer to help accelerate the company’s growth. Apparently, he did a good job, because today the company announced his appointment as chief executive officer, succeeding cofounder Greg Hong, who will continue to support the […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/8am-parent-to-lawpay-mycase-and-others-has-a-new-ceo.html Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:23:03 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53371 8am, the parent company of LawPay, MyCase, CasePeer and other law practice technology products, has a new CEO: Jeff Hughes, a member of 8am’s board since 2024 and recently its executive chairman. Hughes succeeds Dru Armstrong, who joined the company formerly known as AffiniPay as CEO in 2021. The news was announced May 19. Armstrong led […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/targeting-european-leadership-in-patent-ai-deepip-acquires-patentmaker.html Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:00:15 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53363 AI patent drafting platform DeepIP has acquired PatentMaker, a patent workflow tool built by and for European IP practitioners, in a move the companies say positions them as the leading AI platform for patent drafting and prosecution in Europe. The deal brings together two complementary operations. DeepIP, founded in 2024 by François-Xavier Leduc and Edouard […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/clio-promotes-ronnie-gurion-to-president-and-coo.html Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:52:23 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53365 Clio said today it has promoted Ronnie Gurion to president and chief operating officer, expanding the role he has served as an executive who has been with the company since joining as COO in 2021. The company said that Gurion played a pivotal role in what has been the most consequential growth phase in its […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/casepoint-names-govtech-veteran-paul-colangelo-ceo-as-thoma-bravo-backed-company-pushes-deeper-into-government.html Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:15:36 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53350 Casepoint has named Paul Colangelo, a longtime government- and enterprise-software executive, as its chief executive officer, the company announced this morning. He will oversee the company’s continuing integration following its January 2025 acquisition by private-equity firm Thoma Bravo and merger with OPEXUS, as well as the growth of its e-discovery, legal hold, Freedom of Information […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/less-hype-more-application-is-the-promise-of-this-june-17-legal-ai-conference-live-in-l-a-or-virtual.html Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:35:20 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53341 A few months ago, I wrote about the new partnership between Masters AI Legal, the newly launched division of The Masters Conference, and Cat Casey, founder of The TechnoCat, a consulting and speaking practice focused on legal AI, to produce a global conference series devoted to making legal professionals “genuinely fluent in AI.” On June 17, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/can-a-legal-ai-platform-be-powerful-fun-and-free-all-at-the-same-time-lavern-surely-thinks-so.html Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:50:52 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53335 Somebody once told Antti Innanen that he had built a veggie burger dressed up to look like real meat. He thought it was a fun criticism, but he also thought it missed the point. That burger is Lavern, an open-source “multi-agent legal system” that Innanen, a Finnish lawyer and law firm founder with a background […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/consulting-firm-harbor-acquires-ce-global-partners-expanding-its-hr-and-payroll-advisory-capabilities.html Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:00:57 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53325 Harbor, a global professional and technology services firm focused on the legal industry, has acquired CE Global Partners, a specialist in HR transformation, payroll transformation, and people-process change, it announced today. The acquisition expands Harbor’s Human Capital Management (HCM) Advisory line, which the company launched just last month, on May 5. Harbor said the combination […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/foundation-365-literas-ai-powered-crm-platform-for-law-firms-is-now-available-within-microsoft-365.html Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:03:16 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53319 Foundation 365, Litera’s AI-powered CRM platform for law firms, is now available across Microsoft 365, including Outlook, Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot, the company said today. Built on Microsoft Dynamics 365, Foundation 365 was formerly known as Peppermint Client Engagement. The product came to Litera through its acquistion last year of Peppermint Technology, the U.K. […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/context-is-everything-ceo-neil-araujo-on-imanages-ai-strategy.html Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:09:07 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53314 Neil Araujo, the CEO and cofounder of iManage, was last on this podcast almost exactly two years ago. In the dog years of the legal industry’s AI age, that feels like a long time ago. Our conversation then was about law firms still feeling their way around generative AI. But now, as you will hear […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/universal-migrator-launches-new-website-built-for-migration-experts.html Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:35:39 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53294 Universal Migrator has launched a brand-new website designed to make legal data migrations easier to research, explain, plan, and execute. The new site gives migration consultants, IT professionals, legal technology advisors, and law firm leaders a clearer way to understand what Universal Migrator can do across hundreds of migration scenarios. Instead of forcing migration experts […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/06/ironclad-founder-jason-boehmig-joins-openai-to-develop-products-for-the-legal-sector.html Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:38:07 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53297 The legal industry is turning into a battleground for the two dominant frontier AI companies. Less than a month ago, Anthropic — developer of the Claude AI assistant — took a major step into the legal market, releasing more than 20 MCP connectors linking Claude to the software that law firms and legal departments run […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/florida-supreme-court-tackles-ai-hallucinations-with-new-rule.html Thu, 28 May 2026 18:22:16 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53282 Aiming to curtail the glut of court filings containing hallucinated legal citations, the Florida Supreme Court today issued a new rule that requires the signer of any document filed in any Florida court to represent that “the legal authorities identified exist and are accurately cited.” The court’s order (Opinion_SC2026-0673) also adds a rule that expressly […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/aiming-to-provide-members-with-affordable-ai-tools-illinois-bar-partners-with-simpledocs-for-contract-review.html Thu, 28 May 2026 12:41:38 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53277 For Illinois attorneys who are curious about trying artificial intelligence for contract review, now is their chance to do it for free. The Illinois State Bar Association and the AI contract review platform SimpleDocs said today that they have entered into a partnership to give ISBA members free 30-day access to the SimpleDocs’ product SimpleAI […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/darrow-the-ai-lab-for-legal-risk-launches-a-platform-to-let-plaintiffs-firms-manage-litigation-like-an-investment-portfolio.html Wed, 27 May 2026 14:19:52 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53259 The legal system has a blind spot, often failing to recognize risk until a lawsuit is filed. By that point, it is too late to mitigate and the only course is to react. That is the premise of Darrow, a company that built its early reputation by scanning the web to surface potential class actions. […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/in-banning-ai-is-berkeley-law-shortchanging-its-students-and-endangering-their-future-clients.html Wed, 27 May 2026 13:16:39 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53255 UC Berkeley School of Law has adopted one of the most restrictive student AI policies of any top law school, barring the use of generative AI for nearly every step of producing graded work — and prohibiting it outright in any exam. The policy takes effect this summer. The rule, which the school released last […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/ahead-of-june-10-shareholder-vote-union-investor-renews-push-for-thomson-reuters-to-assess-human-rights-impact-of-its-products-used-by-ice.html Tue, 26 May 2026 17:47:18 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53249 Last month, I wrote about the pushback by employees, shareholders and others against Thomson Reuters over its contracts to sell law enforcement data to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), primarily through two products: CLEAR (Consolidated Lead Evaluation and Reporting), which provides personal data from a variety of public and non-public sources, and license plate […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/imanage-touts-ai-momentum-and-a-context-fabric-as-it-unveils-platform-overhaul-at-connectlive-2026.html Fri, 22 May 2026 12:56:08 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53241 iManage used the opening of its annual ConnectLive user conference in Chicago earlier this week to introduce what it describes as the next evolution of its document- and knowledge-management platform, a redesign the company says is built to make institutional knowledge usable by AI systems while keeping governance and security controls in place. The announcement […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/claude-for-legal-and-access-to-justice-the-good-the-bad-and-the-unknown.html Thu, 21 May 2026 13:18:36 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53229 Last week, when Anthropic released its biggest legal push to date — more than 20 MCP connectors, 12 practice-area plugins,a and integrations with Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint — much of the coverage focused on what the announcement means for law firms, in-house teams, and the legal tech ecosystem. That is where the bulk […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/harvey-launches-command-center-for-managing-enterprise-ai-adoption-and-partners-with-deepjudge-on-institutional-knowledge.html Wed, 20 May 2026 13:45:39 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53217 As legal AI company Harvey kicks off the two-day Harvey Forum today in New York City, it is announcing the launch of Command Center, a new product designed to help law firms and legal teams manage, measure, and optimize enterprise AI adoption. In addition, Harvey today announced a partnership with legal AI company DeepJudge designed […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/the-claude-pocalypse-bypassed-legal-aid-lawdroids-new-plugin-remedies-that-with-15-targeted-skills.html Wed, 20 May 2026 13:00:57 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53209 In last week’s Claude-pocalypse, Anthropic, one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies, released 12 legal-specific plugins for its Claude AI assistant. It was big news, signalling a frontier AI company’s deeper push into the legal space. Notably, however, not one of those plugins was designed for legal aid. Rather, they covered legal tasks common […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/some-thoughts-on-harveys-launch-of-lab-an-open-source-long-horizon-benchmark-for-legal-ai-agents.html Tue, 19 May 2026 15:55:07 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53200 Harvey, the legal AI company whose valuation recently hit $11 billion, recently released what it is calling the Legal Agent Benchmark, or LAB — an open-source evaluation framework designed to measure how well AI agents can perform extended, real-world legal work rather than the discrete reasoning tasks that have dominated legal AI benchmarks to date. […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/stilta-a-stockholm-startup-bringing-agentic-ai-to-patent-litigation-raises-10-5m-seed-led-by-andreessen-horowitz.html Tue, 19 May 2026 13:00:57 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53194 A five-month-old Swedish startup that says its AI agents can do the heavy lifting of patent invalidity and infringement analysis has raised a $10.5 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz, one of the world’s most prominent venture capital firms, the company is announcing today. Stockholm-based Stilta, founded in December 2025 by four former McKinsey […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/law-librarians-name-thomson-reuters-cocounsel-as-winner-of-2026-new-product-award.html Fri, 15 May 2026 13:51:47 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53188 The American Association of Law Libraries has named Thomson Reuters CoCounsel Legal the recipient of its 2026 New Product Award, the organization announced yesterday. AALL’s New Product Award recognizes commercial information products that enhance law library services or improve access to legal information and the research process. To be eligible, products must have been introduced […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/evenup-extends-beyond-software-with-launch-of-pre-litigation-as-a-service-offering-for-pi-law-firms.html Thu, 14 May 2026 17:51:55 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53185 EvenUp, the personal injury AI company that reached a $2 billion valuation last fall, is making a significant shift in its business model – one that extends it beyond software vendor to something closer to an outsourced operations partner for PI firms. The San Francisco-based company announced yesterday the launch of what it calls Pre-Litigation […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/edig365-aims-to-gives-legal-teams-reporting-and-visibility-within-microsoft-purview-e-discovery.html Thu, 14 May 2026 15:18:48 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53168 A new legal technology product called eDig365 is making its public debut this week at the CLOC Global Institute in Chicago, offering a reporting and observability layer built on top of Microsoft Purview eDiscovery. The product is designed to address a gap that its founders say is common in corporate legal departments. Legal operations and […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/netdocuments-unveils-legal-context-graph-to-map-legal-knowledge-alongside-a-reimagined-platform.html Thu, 14 May 2026 12:00:06 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53159 NetDocuments today announced what it calls the first legal context graph — a proprietary knowledge infrastructure that the company says continuously maps the relationships among every matter, document, communication and person across a firm’s entire document repository, while preserving existing permissions and ethical walls. Alongside it, the company is launching a substantial redesign of its […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/clio-says-it-has-surpassed-500m-in-annual-recurring-revenue.html Wed, 13 May 2026 14:01:05 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53151 Amid all the hubbub yesterday around Claude for legal, Clio quietly slipped in a notable story of its own: that it has now surpassed $500 million in annual recurring revenue. Since few legal tech companies are public, it is hard to know where that puts Clio on the overall revenue landscape. But based on available […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/each-side-claims-the-same-recent-ruling-supports-its-position-in-thomson-reuters-v-ross-appeal.html Wed, 13 May 2026 12:57:12 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53145 The long-running copyright litigation between legal research giant Thomson Reuters and now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS Intelligence took another interesting turn this week, following the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ order that the parties file supplemental briefs addressing the impact of its recent ruling in American Society for Testing & Materials v. UpCodes, Inc. […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/justice-technology-association-named-access-to-justice-partner-in-anthropics-legal-ai-launch.html Tue, 12 May 2026 17:35:23 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53131 The Justice Technology Association (JTA), a nonprofit trade group representing mission-driven companies focused on the access to justice crisis, announced today that it has joined Anthropic as a launch partner in what Anthropic is calling its first comprehensive legal vertical initiative. The announcement comes as part of a much-broader announcement by Anthropic of its push […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/two-legal-research-providers-launch-mcp-integrations-with-claude-thomson-reuters-and-free-law-project-connect-their-data-to-ai.html Tue, 12 May 2026 17:24:39 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53119 Two legal research providers — one a global publicly traded corporation, the other a relatively scrappy nonprofit — are today both announcing integrations with Anthropic’s Claude that allow the AI assistant to tap directly into their legal databases. While the announcements from Thomson Reuters and Free Law Project’s CourtListener arrive on the same day and […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/anthropic-goes-all-in-on-legal-releasing-more-than-20-connectors-and-12-practice-area-plugins-for-claude.html Tue, 12 May 2026 17:17:06 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53136 Anthropic today took its biggest step yet into the legal market, releasing more than 20 new MCP connectors linking Claude to the software that law firms and legal departments run on, along with 12 new plugins tailored to specific legal practice areas. Today’s announcement builds on the legal plugin Anthropic released in early February for […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/lawnext-how-ai-is-transforming-the-way-law-firms-win-business-with-ikaun-president-jason-noble.html Tue, 12 May 2026 15:50:56 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53127 Law firms sell experience — but for decades, harnessing and operationalizing that experience has been a largely manual, chaotic process. In this episode, recorded live at the Legal Marketing Association annual conference in New Orleans, host Bob Ambrogi sits down with Jason Noble, president and chief of product strategy at Ikaun, to talk about how his company […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/aderant-introduces-agent-center-at-momentum-global-targeting-law-firm-back-office-operations-with-ai.html Tue, 12 May 2026 14:00:48 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53113 Aderant, the Atlanta-based legal business management software company, used its Momentum Global 2026 conference this week to unveil the Aderant Agent Center — a new framework for deploying AI agents across law firm financial and operational workflows. The Agent Center, built on the company’s Stridyn platform and powered by its MADDI AI layer, launches initially […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/survey-legal-teams-lack-visibility-into-ai-agents-actions-icertis-research-finds.html Mon, 11 May 2026 15:16:49 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53108 Nearly half of in-house legal professionals say they would not detect an unauthorized or incorrect action taken by an AI agent until after it had already occurred — sometimes days or weeks later — according to new survey research released today by Icertis, the contract lifecycle management company. The findings, drawn from a survey of […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/ediscovery-ai-launches-casebot-a-conversational-ai-assistant-for-case-data.html Mon, 11 May 2026 13:15:11 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53103 eDiscovery AI, which was acquired in February by HaystackID, today announced the general availability of CaseBot, a conversational AI assistant that allows legal teams to interrogate case data in natural language and receive answers cited back to source documents. The Minneapolis-based company had been running CaseBot in limited release since January 2026. It is now […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/exterro-launches-autonomous-subpoena-tool-unveils-broader-ai-governance-vision-at-cloc.html Mon, 11 May 2026 13:00:25 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53099 Timed to coincide with today’s opening of the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) Global Institute in Chicago, Exterro is making two related announcements: the launch of a new autonomous subpoena management product and the unveiling of a strategic framework the company calls ARMOUR — Autonomous Risk Management, Orchestration, and Unified Response — that charts its […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/today-on-legaltech-week-mikeoss-legaltech-giants-supporting-ice-ilta-evolve-rethinking-lawyer-training-ai-mansplaining-and-more.html Fri, 08 May 2026 14:57:45 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53097 Our Friday Legaltech Week panel has been off for a couple weeks, due to travel and other conflicts. But we’re back — live today at 3 p.m. ET — to discuss the latest news in legal tech and innovation. It’s all free, and you can sign up here to attend. Register once and you are […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/ken-crutchfield-when-open-source-meets-legal-how-mikeoss-signals-the-end-of-legals-secret-sauce.html Fri, 08 May 2026 12:38:49 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53092 Last week, Will Chen released MikeOSS, an open-source project on GitHub that claims to be feature-equivalent to Harvey and Legora. Among other things, MikeOSS has an assistant, a tabular review function, and reusable workflows. While it’s too early to tell how strong the technology is, the response in the development community has been viral. For […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/backstory-how-ted-turner-reshaped-legal-media-and-my-career.html Thu, 07 May 2026 14:33:37 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53078 Ted Turner died yesterday at 87, and the obituaries are appropriately full of CNN, the Braves, the America’s Cup, the bison, and the billion-dollar pledge to the U.N. But there is a small, largely forgotten chapter of his story that is notable for its impact on shaping legal media as we know it today. It […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/lexisnexis-expands-lexis-with-protege-adding-agentic-skills-collaboration-workrooms-and-customer-held-encryption-keys.html Thu, 07 May 2026 12:00:02 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53071 Less than three months after replacing Lexis+ AI with Lexis+ with Protégé as its flagship legal AI platform, LexisNexis today is announcing a substantial expansion of that platform – what the company is calling its “next evolution,” combining significant build-outs of existing capabilities with several completely new ones. The expansion, announced today, layers six new […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/california-bar-proposes-rule-requiring-lawyers-to-verify-every-ai-output-and-five-other-ai-focused-ethics-changes.html Tue, 05 May 2026 15:03:09 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53056 When using any technology — including AI — a lawyer “must independently review, verify, and exercise professional judgment regarding any output generated by the technology that is used in connection with representing a client.” That language appears in a new comment to Rule 1.1 on competence proposed by the State Bar of California’s Standing Committee […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/practice-management-platform-clio-to-discontinue-its-longtime-integration-with-payments-processor-lawpay.html Tue, 05 May 2026 12:35:32 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53046 Legal technology company Clio‘s integration with the payment processing platform 8am LawPay is discontinuing on Aug. 31, 2026, it has notified customers. After that date, customers of the Clio Manage law practice management platform will no longer be able to use LawPay to process payments. The integration contract between the two companies expires as of […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/everlaw-and-legora-announce-integration-to-connect-discovery-and-drafting.html Mon, 04 May 2026 17:03:01 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53041 Everlaw and Legora have announced a technology partnership that will allow litigation teams to access documents stored in Everlaw directly within Legora’s drafting and collaboration environment. The integration is designed to close the gap between the discovery and drafting phases of litigation. Under the arrangement, attorneys working in Legora — whether on witness statements, deposition […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/legal-marketing-association-president-rachel-shields-williams-on-ai-innovation-and-why-people-still-come-first.html Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:49:44 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53021 Recorded live at the annual meeting of the Legal Marketing Association in New Orleans, this episode features my conversation with Rachel Shields Williams, president of the LMA and director of client intelligence at Sidley Austin, where she has spent 17 years building out roles at the intersection of marketing, business development, knowledge management and data. Earlier this year, […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/the-legal-tech-giants-powering-ice-part-2-the-pushback-employees-shareholders-lawyers-and-the-fight-over-may-31.html Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:52:11 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52984 On March 11, 2026, some 200 employees of Thomson Reuters – many of them based at the company’s Westlaw operations in St. Paul, Minn. – sent a letter to management with an unequivocal demand: Do not renew the company’s $22.8 million contract with ICE, set to expire on May 31. (See Part 1 of this […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/8am-now-guarantees-next-day-payments-to-its-lawpay-customers.html Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:00:09 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=53015 8am, the parent company of a suite of practice and business management products for lawyers and accountants, is now guaranteeing next-day payments for customers of its LawPay and CPACharge payments platforms, it said today. The company also announced new capabilities that it says streamline billing and improve visibility into financial performance for its customers. The […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/the-legal-tech-giants-powering-ice-part-1-how-thomson-reuters-and-lexisnexis-helped-support-americas-immigration-surveillance-machine.html Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:16:19 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52982 [Note: Since first publishing this post, I have made several edits and updates based on information provided by Thomson Reuters and other sources. In most cases, I have indicated where I have changed or added information.] For the lawyers and other legal professionals who use Westlaw and LexisNexis every day, these platforms are familiar tools […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/gavel-launches-web-based-ai-contract-platform-expanding-gavel-exec-beyond-its-word-add-in.html Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:00:59 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52992 Gavel, the Los Angeles-based legal AI company, today announced the launch of Gavel Exec for Web, a browser-based expansion of its AI contract review and drafting product that until now has lived primarily as an add-in inside Microsoft Word. “With Gavel Exec for Web, lawyers can chat with an AI purpose-built for legal work, benchmark […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/questel-launches-qaecter-a-new-ai-model-claiming-state-of-the-art-performance-in-patent-search.html Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:00:24 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52997 Questel, an intellectual property software and services company headquartered in Paris, has released QaECTER, a new AI model designed specifically for semantic patent retrieval. The company says the model outperforms competing systems, including those that are significantly larger, across every query type, technology domain and jurisdiction tested. QaECTER is the product of Questel’s in-house AI […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/abstract-brings-ai-powered-legislative-intelligence-to-law-firms-and-corporate-legal-teams.html Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:34:44 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52973 A New York-based legal tech startup called Abstract is making a push into the market for legislative and regulatory monitoring, offering law firms and corporate legal departments what it describes as a fundamentally different approach to keeping clients and businesses informed about government activity that may affect them. At Legalweek in March, I had a […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/flash-justice-aims-to-take-small-claims-plaintiffs-not-just-to-the-form-but-all-the-way-through-filing.html Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:35:15 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52965 In the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, Israeli entrepreneur Erez Vega-Kadoch kept receiving what he considered to be inappropriate text messages from an Israeli company. Never having consented to the messages, he decided to fight back and file a small claims case against the company. But when he searched for […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/guest-post-the-intake-form-is-dead-long-live-the-template.html Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:41:48 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52961 Legal AI has made lawyers faster. Faster contract review. Smarter redlines. Drafting assistance that saves real time. For the most part, legal AI products have been built around lawyers: how they work and how to make that work better. This isn’t surprising when you consider whose budget pays for legal AI. But the first friction […]]]> https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/clio-work-clios-ai-workspace-is-now-available-to-solo-and-smaller-law-firms-as-a-standalone-product.html Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:46:10 +0000 https://www.lawnext.com/?p=52940 Clio has made Clio Work — the AI workspace for legal research, analysis and strategy it launched last October — available as a standalone product for  solo, small and mid-sized law firms, removing the requirement that customers also subscribe to its flagship practice management platform, Clio Manage. The Vancouver-based company, which describes itself as the […]]]>