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Does AI Make Legal Operations More Essential or Less Necessary?

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 14:38:07 EST

Corporate legal leaders are asking: As AI takes over more routine work, what happens to the people who have traditionally managed it?

4 Canadian Firms Fall Prey to Industry-Wide Cyberattack

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 14:32:37 EST

McCarthy Tétrault, Borden Ladner Gervais, Bennett Jones and Davies say damage has been contained, and they are alerting affected parties.

Legaltech Rundown: Legora Introduces New Research Feature, Filevine Launches AI Voice Agents, and More

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:23:30 EST

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

Everlaw Unveils New Agentic AI Feature, Review Management Offering

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 17:07:42 EST

The new agentic feature, currently in early access with law firms including Bracewell and Vorys, is intended to help users leverage Everlaw's existing suite of tools.

Harvey Inks Deal to Acquire AI Sales Platform Aida

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:44:35 EST

The addition of Aida will support the engineering of Harvey's context layer and how it interacts with its AI agents.

Say Hello to Our New Senior Legal Tech Reporter: Tony Thompson

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:09:39 EST

Tony Thompson joined the Law.com team Oct. 19 as the legal tech desk's first U.K.-based member.

NY Implements Chatbot Restrictions for Interactions With Minors, Puts AI Companies 'On Notice'

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:22:55 EST

Attorney General Letitia James is set to enforce new limits on how AI chatbots interact with children; a technology attorney says compliance could require companies to retool and monitor their algorithms.

What DSARs Reveal About an Organization's Data Maturity

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:14:17 EST

As organizations distribute information across cloud applications, collaboration platforms, mobile devices, and AI-enabled systems, responding to a DSAR requires much more than knowledge of applicable privacy laws and regulations. Organizations must know what personal data they hold, where it resides, who is responsible for it, and how it should be handled.

Anthropic Releases Claude for Legal Artifacts, a Set of New Interactive Tools for Legal Users

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 11:14:59 EST

The new offering, including features built by Goodwin and Foley & Lardner, is designed to make it easier for users to perform legal tasks.

Why Davis Wright Tremaine Is Launching a Peer-Based AI Training Program

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 07:59:59 EST

The new program will assemble more than 70 employees for discussions on change management, experimentation and the future of legal work.

ClioCon 2026 Day 2: Judicial AI Adoption, Law Firm Differentiation in the AI Age

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:05:56 EST

Speakers on day two of ClioCon 2026 explored how law firms and courts are navigating AI, including differentiating themselves through client-focused storytelling and developing AI tools for courts.

ClioCon 2026 Day 1: How Law Firms Are Responding to AI-Eager Clients

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:43:44 EST

Speakers at ClioCon 2026 discussed how AI is impacting the lawyer-client relationship, from adoption pressures to individual clients asking chatbots for legal guidance.

AI Enters the Courtroom as Dubai Rethinks How Lawyers Train and Judges Work

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 13:14:54 EST

What happens when a trainee lawyer can face a virtual judge before a real one? Dubai's new AI courtroom puts advocacy skills to the test.

Casepoint Expands AI Agent Suite Into Investigations

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 11:25:35 EST

The latest addition to Casepoint IQ aims to help investigators analyze large volumes of evidence without relying on specialist technical teams.

Latham Partners With Harvey To Develop Fund Formation Tools

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 10:59:59 EST

Latham & Watkins is partnering with Harvey to develop fund formation-focused artificial intelligence tools, a collaboration which AI leaders at Latham said is in line with its broader strategy for the new technology.

Lexis Adds New Integrations, Custom Skills Builder to Lexis+ With Protégé

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 07:59:59 EST

The company's AI workflow platform will now be able to access information from Lex Machina, Intelligize, Courtlink and more, with 100 new skills and a significantly expanded Vault repository.

Clio Announces Revamped Platform, Agentic AI Drafting, Additional AI Capabilities

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:43:53 EST

The new capabilities, announced during ClioCon 2026, include an AI-powered phone system, a shared workspace for legal teams, drafting updates and a timekeeping tool in beta.

Agiloft GC on Humor, ‘Intelligent Risk' and Why Legal Shouldn't Run on Heroics

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:03:22 EST

Three months into her first general counsel role, Agiloft's Kristin Esche is embracing humor, intelligent risk-taking and AI to build a legal department that helps the business move forward without overburdening its lawyers.

Clio Acquires Regulatory Monitoring Company Page

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 11:52:10 EST

Page tracks legislative updates, hearings and changes across the U.S., U.K., Ireland, Australia and Canada.

AI Chats Can Be Discoverable. Is Your AI-Use Governance Record Ready?

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 11:29:59 EST

Employees use generative AI before and during disputes to summarize events, test arguments, and analyze allegations—often informally and outside approved systems. Those interactions create evidence ranging from chat histories and source files to audit logs and retention settings.

NautaDutilh Builds Proprietary Software Capability to Complement Legal Vendor Offerings

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:33:32 EST

The initiative will bring lawyers and software developers together to build technology around the firm's own workflows, knowledge and client needs.

Legaltech Rundown: Goodwin Launches AI Governance Program, Legora Announces Integrations With iManage, Blue J and More

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:48:02 EST

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

Requiem for a Doc Review

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:10:59 EST

Despite projections that AI will eliminate document review by attorneys, the process still requires human judgment. While AI is shifting workflows across the legal industry, it will not spell the end of document review, but a new beginning.

'A Botch Job': 5th Circuit Reassigns Case After Judge Misused AI to Draft Ruling

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:18:40 EST

"Given the embarrassment of the AI hallucinations and mistakes of law in the two TROs and the preliminary injunction, it would be an understandable—though obviously unjust—temptation for the judge to want to find a way to prove that, even with correct law and fact, his initial view should prevail," Judge Jerry Smith wrote for the appellate court.

KM&I for Legal Day Two Take-Aways: Responsible Vibe Coding, Fostering AI Innovation

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:56:49 EST

Speakers at LegalTech Connect's Knowledge Management & Innovation for Legal Conference explored how law firms are taking on innovation, including supporting vibe-coded AI tools and preserving institutional expertise through AI personas.

How 3 Sheppard Attorneys Worked With LegalQuants to Foster Firm Innovation

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:44:02 EST

Experience with the company's residency and community has given the lawyers hands-on practice building AI tools and helped them rethink training and development needs at the firm.

Legal Tech Providers Embrace Integrations in the Agentic AI Era

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:39:57 EST

In the legal tech world, it's all connected. Or at least it's getting there.

KM&I for Legal Day One Takeaways: An AI Transformation Case Study and the Value of Context

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:20:48 EST

LegalTech Connect's Knowledge Management & Innovation for Legal Conference speakers ID knowledge management plays a large role in shaping law firm AI strategy, from centralizing change management to analyzing institutional context that make AI tools useful.

Should Legal Tech Vendors Fear Microsoft's Copilot for Legal?

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:46:55 EST

Experts suggest that Copilot for legal is likely to achieve broad adoption and could pose a threat to point solutions that don't differentiate from general-purpose AI.

LexisNexis Legal & Professional GC: If Law Firms Can Use AI to Do the Work, ‘So Can We'

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:50:56 EST

Alexandra Smyth discussed how AI could reshape law firm pricing, why clients may keep more work in-house, and what firms will need to offer when hours worked are no longer a proxy for value.

Harvey and Australian Startup Mary Technology Announce Integration for Litigation Workflows

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:59:59 EST

The companies developed an integration to make AI-powered capabilities for fact verification available in Harvey.

Legora Announces $550M Series E, $8.8B Valuation

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:15:32 EST

The new funding round, which saw participation from the venture arms of Fidelity, Capital Group and J.P Morgan, among others, will be devoted to continued expansion in the U.S. and other markets, as well as further development of the company's agentic AI operating system Legora aOS.

Inside Sterne Kessler's Software Development Partnership With Clarivate

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:50:50 EST

The IP firm and the software and data provider are developing AI-enabled patent workflows, built on Sterne Kessler's internal tech building efforts, that Clarivate will bring to market.

NYC Proposes First-of-Its-Kind Automated Customer Service Chatbot Regulation

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:33:57 EST

The chatbot rule would require businesses to provide timely and reasonable customer service in addition to offering customers access to a human representative if that service falls short.

AI Boom Compounds Law Firm GCs' Risk-Assessment Workloads

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:43:04 EST

“I am not sure that I have lived through as seismic a change in the nature of the practice as I'm living through right now, said GC David Roth of Bradley Arant.

Womble Establishes Lab for Developing Proprietary AI Tools

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 08:59:59 EST

Beginning with a focus on tasks like regulatory monitoring and legal analysis, the Womble AI Lab's engineer-backed team hopes to build its own AI model in the near future.

Law Firm Workloads Are Under Threat as Legal Departments Do More With AI

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 08:29:59 EST

As in-house teams cut down on the work they're sending to outside counsel, law firms are passing on AI-driven savings and looking at new billing models.