Artificial intelligence tools matched or exceeded human lawyers in producing reliable contract drafts in the first comprehensive benchmarking study comparing AI against legal professionals, according to research published this week.

The study, Benchmarking Humans & AI in Contract Drafting, conducted by LegalBenchmarks.ai, found that human lawyers produced reliable first drafts 56.7% of the…

Has there ever been a time since the advent of legal reporting systems when citations have been under greater attack? Driven by their unwitting reliance on AI to generate legal briefs, lawyers seem to have forgotten everything they ever learned in law school about how to research and cite the law.

Standing as a bulwark…

As Leslie Witt took to the stage Sept. 3 to deliver the keynote at Kaleidoscope, 8am’s inaugural customer conference, it was the culmination of a whirlwind summer. It had been just four months since she had joined the…

Finalists have been named for the 2025 American Legal Technology Awards, which honor exceptional achievement in various aspects of legal technology.

The awards recognize achievement in various categories related to legal technology, such as by a law firm, an individual, or an enterprise.

The awards will be presented on Oct. 15 at a gala…

A new decision from the California Court of Appeals adds an intriguing dimension to the growing body of AI hallucination sanctions cases, raising the question of a lawyer’s duty to detect fabricated, AI-generated citations — not in the lawyer’s own filings, but in an opponent’s.

While the court did impose a $10,000 sanction on the…

Twenty years ago, I had the great good fortune to help launch the podcast Lawyer 2 Lawyer as cohost along with J. Craig Williams. It was one of the first legal podcasts of any kind, was the very first podcast of the Legal Talk Network, and is today the longest continuously running…

A new panelist joins our Legaltech Week panel today: Rhys Dipshan, editor-in-chief of legal technology at ALM. Rhys has been a reporter and editor for 17 years, and he has covered legal tech for nearly a decade. We look forward to his contributions and insights.

Lots to cover today, including our impressions of the…

At its annual BoxWorks conference in San Francisco today, Box announced the launch of Box Shield Pro, an enhanced suite of AI-powered security capabilities designed to address the evolving cybersecurity needs of law firms, financial services firms, healthcare organizations, government agencies, and others.

The new offering builds on Box’s existing Shield security platform by…

In an unusual judicial response to the ongoing epidemic of AI-generated fictitious citations, Washoe County, Nev., District Court Judge David Hardy has crafted what he calls a “creative and unpredictable” solution that offers a different way for courts to address attorney misconduct involving artificial intelligence.

The unusual order, first reported by Mark Robison at the…

Calling it a breakthrough that “sets a new standard for AI-powered legal research quality,” Jus Mundi, the AI-powered research platform for international law and arbitration, today announced the launch of Jus AI 2, the second generation of the AI assistant it launched last year, saying it provides the solution to one of legal AI’s…

The problem of legal timekeeping is as old as the billable hour itself. Lawyers either interrupt their work to record time contemporaneously, breaking their flow and concentration, or they reconstruct their time retroactively, inevitably missing billable work and resulting in weaker narratives for clients. 

Enter Ajax, an AI-powered time-tracking platform that aims to solve…

Forbes is out this week with its 10th annual Cloud 100 list, tracking the top companies in cloud computing, and four legal tech companies made the list, while one dropped off from last year.

Two other legal tech companies were highlighted as rising stars — “startups on track to be some of the…