January 2026

A new study examining bias in AI-generated video reveals that the leading AI video creation tools significantly underrepresent women in the legal profession, depicting female lawyers at rates far below their actual numbers in the workforce. AI videos also underrepresent lawyers of color, although by a lesser percentage. According to research published by Kapwing, which…

Editor’s Note: The rapid integration of artificial intelligence into sovereign digital infrastructure represents a shift that cybersecurity, information governance, and eDiscovery professionals must monitor with precision. Estonia’s “Eesti.ai” and “AI Leap” initiatives provide a real-world laboratory for large-scale automation, offering a preview of the challenges inherent in managing algorithmic transparency, data sovereignty, and secure identity.…

EvenUp, a company that specializes in AI tools for personal injury law practices, today launched Communication Agents, AI-powered voice and text assistants designed to automate routine communications in PI case management. The company also announced enhancements to its AI drafting capabilities. The company announced the new features during a keynote by cofounder Saam Mashhad at…

The post is written by a developer, and he’s got good advice for anyone looking for that kind of work. I’m not a developer, but I can say with some confidence that this advice applies to everyone. In this job market, who you know is everything. 
Scratch that. It’s not who you know, it’s who…

3 min readIn 2024, Case Status launched one of its very first AI-powered capabilities: translation. Built on Google Neural Machine Translation—the same core engine that powers Google Translate—it was an important step forward in helping firms communicate with clients across language barriers.But from day one, we knew something important:  Transactional translation has a ceiling.Word-for-word accuracy…

Editor’s Note: AI no longer operates in a legal grey zone. As enforcement accelerates in Europe and India advances mandatory content‑labeling rules, global enterprises are confronting clearly defined lines around how models are trained, disclosed, and deployed. For cybersecurity, data governance, and eDiscovery professionals, this shift represents an immediate compliance reality—not a future policy debate.…

Litera is significantly enhancing Kira, its AI-powered contract review platform, with new capabilities designed to address the growing demands for speed, accuracy and trusted generative AI in contract review work, the company announced today. The enhanced version of Kira combines gen AI with proprietary AI models trained on over one million legal contracts to deliver…

Zebraworks today announced the launch of DataQ AI, an artificial intelligence-powered analytics platform designed to help law firms identify and address revenue cycle issues before they impact cash flow. The new product, part of the company’s Invoices-to-Cash suite, analyzes billing and collections activity, accounts receivable, trust and retainer balances, and client payment patterns to surface…

Aiming to remove the sales-cycle obstacles that have kept generative AI tools out of reach for many solo and smaller-firm lawyers, August today launched immediate self-service access to its legal AI platform, including a two-week free trial, alongside a comprehensive library of over 100 video tutorials. For the first time, the company says, smaller law…

Editor’s Note: Diplomatic negotiations may be inching forward, but the war’s digital and tactical dimensions are accelerating in parallel. This current events analysis—based on developments tracked by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW)—highlights how battlefield technologies, from drones to spectrum warfare, are increasingly shaping the conditions for any sustainable peace. As U.S., Russian, and…