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 […] read more

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 […] read more

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 […] read more

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 […] read more

With more than 650 documented cases of AI hallucinations appearing in court filings, and courts imposing sanctions ranging from tens of thousands of dollars to removal from client representations, law firm partners face an uncomfortable quandary: How can they confidently sign pleadings when they cannot be certain whether someone on their team used AI tools […] read more

Legal business software company Aderant and legal AI company Harvey today announced a partnership they are describing as “market-defining” for the way it will bridge the gap between software for the business of law and software for the practice of law.  “Together, the companies will deliver the industry’s first deeply connected ecosystem that unites AI-powered […] read more

In a rare public forum appearance, Harvey co-founders Winston Weinberg, its CEO, and Gabriel Pereyra, its president, spent over two hours answering questions from the legal tech community in a Reddit AMA earlier today, addressing everything from their $8 billion valuation to how they compete with legal research giants and what the future holds for AI in […] read more

Following the preview release in August and the commercial release in October of its Protégé General AI, LexisNexis Legal & Professional today rolled out what it is calling the product’s next generation, expanding its capabilities to unify authoritative legal content, customer documents and open web insights within a single secure AI workflow environment. LexisNexis developed […] read more

The long-running copyright litigation between Thomson Reuters and ROSS Intelligence is now pending in the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for an interlocutory appeal of the trial judge’s rulings in favor of TR. Recently here, I reported on the 10 amicus curiae briefs filed in support of ROSS, all arguing that the now-defunct AI legal […] read more

Contract lifecycle management company Agiloft today released Obligation Management, a new feature that uses artificial intelligence to automatically extract and track commitments from contracts. The feature is designed to address a persistent challenge in contract management: organizations frequently overlook critical obligations after signing agreements. Citing research from PwC, Agiloft says that companies can lose 5-9% […] read more