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Startup Paravo Emerges From Stealth Launching AI-Powered Client Management Platform

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:26:34 EST

The platform leverages gen AI to automate client outreach and track returning clients for law firms.

The Law Firms Working With Tech Companies to Build Custom Tools

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:37:35 EST

A growing number of law firms are embracing partnerships with Big Tech and legal tech companies, with one recent example being Willkie's new collaboration with OpenAI.

Akerman Taps Ex-Amazon Counsel for New AI Governance and Data Protection Role

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:59:59 EST

Michael Adler arrives at Akerman as the firm continues to place a heavy emphasis on generative artificial intelligence, both internally and as a service offering to clients.

The Former Quinn Emanuel Partner Building His Own Firm for the AI Age

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:31:56 EST

After 17 years at Quinn Emanuel, Christopher Kercher parted ways to start his own litigation boutique law firm steeped in legal technology and attempting to redefine client service.

Wordsmith AI Announces $14M in Extended Series B Funding

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:46:04 EST

The new funding expands upon a previous $70 million Series B round and will be used to help Wordsmith move further into the financial services and insurance industries—markets where the company expects to see continued growth.

The AmLaw AI Ladder: Who's a Chief, Who's Still Waiting

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:09:14 EST

The industry has already answered the hard question—AI needs an owner, and 132 people now hold that job.

DISCO Launches New AI-Powered Solution for Litigators

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 07:14:59 EST

The new unified litigation solution is designed to unite the facts of a matter, controlling law and the ability to conduct AI-powered workflows.

Anthropic Hires Former CA Supreme Court Justice Tino Cuéllar in Global Policy Role

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:33:02 EST

Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar will become a global executive with the AI company as it navigates national and international scrutiny and heads toward a possible IPO this year.

BigHand Acquires Data Intelligence Platform Ayora

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:46:18 EST

BigHand aims to bolster its matter pricing solution with Ayora's pricing expertise and data management capabilities.

IP Management Provider Anaqua Acquires IP Litigation Prevention Company Unified Patents

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:29:59 EST

The purchase is intended to help customers avoid unnecessary patent litigation and provide opportunities for data sharing.

LexisNexis Launches Customer Lab to Bolster Product Advancement, AI Developer Collaboration

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 07:59:59 EST

In addition to working with users, the company will work with AI developers including Amazon Web Services and OpenAI to keep up with new models that LexisNexis may incorporate into their legal products.

Law Firms Don't Have an AI Problem. They Have a Deployment Problem.

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:44:59 EST

Adoption is settled. What now separates the firms getting a return from the ones writing off the spend isn't better technology—it's the operational work of deployment: the data, the workflows, the governance and the daily management that turn a tool into a capability.

Former Williams & Connolly Partner Discusses Pivot to Legal Research Startup Founder

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:59:59 EST

Sam Davidoff, founder and CEO of Align, discusses leaving Williams & Connolly to pursue legal tech full time and develop an AI legal research tool solely focused on surfacing U.S. case law.

EU AI Act's Next Phase Puts Pressure on Big Tech—and Not Just in Europe

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:35:08 EST

The European Commission's AI Office now has enforcement powers under the Act, with violations potentially resulting in fines of up to 3% of global annual turnover or 15 million, whichever is higher

Big Law May Be Training AI Better Than Its Associates

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 18:35:49 EST

From Australia to the U.S., firms are pouring money into AI while hiring fewer entry-level lawyers. The bigger risk isn't automation—it's failing to develop the judgment, strategy and client skills future partners will need.

Escalating Costs of Doing Business, Buying Tech May Change Firms' Cautious Tune on Debt

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:24:32 EST

Even as law firms say they're investing more heavily in artificial intelligence technologies, few large firms are taking on debt, and those that do are most likely to spend it on real estate.

Reddit's DMCA Claims Against Perplexity, SerpApi Survive AI Scraping Challenge

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:02:15 EST

A Manhattan federal judge allowed Reddit, represented by Bartlit Beck and Wollmuth Maher & Deutsch, to proceed with core DMCA claims against SerpApi, represented by Weil, Gotshal & Manges, and Perplexity, represented by Keker, Van Nest & Peters and N. Read & Co., over alleged circumvention of Google's anti-bot protections to obtain Reddit content at scale.

Legaltech Rundown: CopySight Secures $3M Seed Round, Ogletree Deakins Launches Compliance Calendar and More

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:09:55 EST

An update on the legal tech market's past week, from product launches to new partnerships.

Thomson Reuters Provides Benchmarking Data for Forthcoming LLM

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:59:59 EST

The Thomson LLM, which will be integrated into CoCounsel Legal's Tabular Analysis feature next month, was tested against models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google.

Your Next Direct Reports May Be AI Agents

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:01:48 EST

"Every individual contributor ought to have an agentic span of control. They ought to be managing agents. They ought to be ultimately orchestrating the work, the AI, the agents," said Salesforce CLO Sebastian Niles.

TAR and Generative AI Team Up to Achieve Success in Large-Scale Discovery

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:14:19 EST

The most successful discovery strategies often are built around the realities of a particular matter, not around technology for its own sake.

Inside Scott+Scott and Litigation Startup Advocacy AI's Design Partnership

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:18:37 EST

The partnership is intended to produce customized uses of Advocacy's platform for the firm, including a potential case identification use case.

Ill. Appeals Court Says It Hopes Higher Fine Will Deter AI Hallucinations

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:06:06 EST

The attorney admitted to using a "premier corporate subscription of ChatGPT" in a response brief filed July 2, but the court wrote that this brief also included misstatements of law.

Legal Entity Management Platform Discern Announces $10M in Series A Funding

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:50:51 EST

Discern plans to use the funding to hire across teams including its engineering team, which will expand features for the platform's registered agent offering.

Legora Acquires AI-Powered Litigation Startup Wexler

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:28:25 EST

The acquisition, Legora's fifth since March 2026, will support fact identification and analysis in the company's agentic workflows.

Meta Confronts Addiction Allegations in New Trial Underway in Tennessee

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:37:59 EST

The trial, which accuses Meta of violating the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act, is similar to a case earlier this year in which a jury awarded $375 million in civil penalties to New Mexico.

Harvey Announces Investments From JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs Funds

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:26:35 EST

Goldman Sachs' contribution to Harvey is one of several investments the bank has made in legal tech since 2025.

What Chinese Open-Weight AI Models Mean for Legal Tech

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:29:13 EST

Lower costs and customization are likely to lead to increased use by vendors, even as models from U.S. AI developers like OpenAI and Anthropic will continue to play a major role.

Illinois' Newly Tamed Biometric Privacy Law Still Has Teeth

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:56:06 EST

Companies in Illinois continue to face risk from the state's strict biometric privacy law as plaintiffs file new kinds of lawsuits, despite a 2024 amendment that reduced potential damages under the law and a recent court ruling that the amendment was retroactive.