God forbid a disaster had befallen Austin, Texas, last week, because it could have set back the evolution of legal tech by at least a decade. Assembled there were many of the best and the brightest of the legal tech world, who had all come together for the fourth edition of what has become the […] read more
Applications are now open for a spot in the 10th annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW, a 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 legal technology conference. Out of all the entries received, 15 startups will […] read more
Harbor, the Chicago-based legal technology and consulting firm, continues its string of recent acquisitions with the addition of Encoretech, a specialized training and user adoption services company focused on the legal sector. The deal marks Harbor’s first acquisition since receiving a majority investment from private equity firm BayPine in June and represents the company’s sixth […] read more
Epiq announced today the sale of its Global Business Transformation Solutions (GBTS) division to K2 Services, a managed services provider. The transaction positions Epiq to concentrate more intensively on technology-enabled legal solutions while significantly expanding K2’s operational footprint in the professional services sector. The deal is part of a broader strategic move by K2 Services, […] read more
Legal technology company Clio has completed its $1 billion acquisition of vLex, marking the conclusion of the largest deal in legal tech history, and has simultaneously closed a $500 million Series G funding round, along with a $350 million debt facility, valuing the combined company at $5 billion, and clearing the way to move forward […] read more
The legal AI platform Alexi has launched what it is calling the most comprehensive AI workflow library on the market, designed to help law firms move beyond risky AI experimentation toward reliable, scalable automation of legal work. The Toronto-based company introduced the Workflow Library in September, describing it as a solution developed for firms that […] read more
As the long-running litigation between Thomson Reuters and ROSS Intelligence has moved to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for an interlocutory appeal of the trial judge’s copyright rulings in favor of TR, amicus curiae have come out in force to support the position of the now-defunct AI legal research startup that it did not […] read more
AJ Shankar, CEO and founder of e-discovery company Everlaw, used the company’s annual Everlaw Summit in San Francisco to announce that Deep Dive, a new AI tool within the company’s platform that enables legal teams to ask questions across millions of documents, will reach general availability before the end of the year following a successful […] read more
A new benchmark study released by Vals AI suggests that both legal-specific and general large language models are now capable of performing legal research tasks with a level of accuracy equaling or exceeding that of human lawyers. The report, VLAIR – Legal Research, extends the earlier Vals Legal AI Report (VLAIR) from February 2025 to […] read more
In delivering his keynote at the 2025 ClioCon in Boston last week, CEO Jack Newton described the litany of new products and features he announced as “quite literally the biggest wave of innovation in Clio’s history.” For those in the audience, it was a lot to take in, as Newton announced new products, new features, […] read more