Last week, Law.com Legalweek pulled off something genuinely impressive: It moved. After 39 years at the New York Hilton Midtown, one of the world’s leading legal technology conferences relocated to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, a sprawling glass and steel pavilion 1.6 miles away on Manhattan’s far west side, steps from the entrance to
2026 Business Predictions: What Leaders and Law Firms Should Expect in an AI-Powered World
Every year brings a wave of predictions about the future of business. However, the most valuable forecasts do more than speculate – they identify patterns already emerging across industries, and explain how those patterns will shape the year ahead.
Recently, entrepreneur and systems strategist Jordan Gill explored several of these shifts in her “2026 Business
Anthropic’s Matt Samuels and Den Delimarsky – Claude & MCP: Building the USB-C for the Legal Tech Stack
This week, we sit down with two guests from Anthropic, Matt Samuels, Senior Product Counsel, and Den Delimarsky, a core maintainer of the Model Context Protocol, or MCP. Together, they unpack why MCP is drawing so much attention across the legal industry and why some are calling it the USB-C for AI.
The Trust Gap: What the Clio + Case Status Webinar Revealed About the Future of Law Firm Growth
There’s a question that should keep every managing partner up at night — not about case outcomes, not about billable hours, but about this:You’re doing good work. Your clients know it. The question is whether your systems are letting that work speak for itself — in reviews, referrals, and the day-to-day experience of being your
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The HSR Pulse: Navigating the 2026 M&A Data Surge
Editor’s Note: M&A teams entering 2026 face a sharper reality: deal activity remains resilient, but regulatory instability, rising transaction thresholds, and heavier data demands are increasing pressure on the professionals responsible for discovery, security, and governance. This analysis examines February 2026 HSR filing activity against a backdrop of slower GDP growth, a contested expanded HSR
ComplexDiscovery OÜ and EDRM Release Complete Analysis of the Winter 2026 eDiscovery Pricing Survey
Editor’s Note: The Winter 2026 eDiscovery Pricing Survey — the fifteenth edition of ComplexDiscovery’s semi-annual Pricing Pulse research series, conducted in partnership with the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) — was published in full on ComplexDiscovery.com on March 6, 2026. This press release represents the formal broader distribution of those findings to the professional and
Worth Reading – WordPress debuts a private workspace that runs in your browser via a new service, my.WordPress.net
It’s all stored in the browser, which carries some risk of computer crashes, but they claim to have backup and transfer mechanisms. It could provide a playground or personal knowledge base, complete with some AI, without worrying about it being stored in the cloud, because you can’t share it. It can be a place to
Legalweek Final Keynote: An Industry Still Whistling Past the Graveyard?
The final Legalweek keynote made the argument that law firms need to do what Apple and Netflix did in the early 2000s: blow up a their existing business model for a better one. Hard to argue with that. But it’s hard to see that it’s happening in legal.
Here’s the data: only 19% of firms
Construction risk management best practices: An expert guide
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GEO for Law Firms: How to Stay Visible When AI Changes the Rules
How AI search works (and why it’s different from Google)
AI search is any search experience where artificial intelligence synthesizes information from multiple sources and presents a generated answer. Instead of ten blue links, users get a direct summary, sometimes with linked citations.
The most common forms right now include:
- Google AI Overviews, which
When the Press Is Silenced: Why the Criminalization of Journalism Matters to Cybersecurity, Compliance, and eDiscovery in 2026
Editor’s Note: Governments are no longer just harassing journalists; they are constructing legal and digital systems designed to make the act of reporting itself punishable. This evolution represents a fundamental shift from sporadic intimidation to a formalized architecture of repression that is rapidly spreading across borders. From treason prosecutions in Belarus to surveillance-driven case building
Leading in the next era: 4 private capital takeaways from Intapp Amplify 2026
What we announced at Amplify 2026 and what it means for your firm right now.
Private capital firms are caught between two pressures at once: LPs demanding more with less patience, and a deal environment where sourcing edge is harder to find and faster to erode. The firms winning on deal sourcing right now aren’t
Reshaping investment banking in the age of AI: 3 key takeaways from Amplify 2026
Before Amplify even opened, the conversations were happening. Clients arriving with the same urgency, asking the same harder question — not whether AI would reshape investment banking, but how far ahead the early movers already were. What they saw across three days sharpened that instinct. Three themes defined what we heard, and together they define
Legalweek’s Annual Judicial Panel: A Clear And Present Danger To Our Judges — And The Rule Of Law
I attended Legalweek’s annual judicial panel expecting the usual e-discovery update. What I heard instead was a sobering account of murder, death threats, swatting, and doxing directed at sitting federal judges and a stark warning about what it means for the rule of law and our profession. Four sitting federal judges spoke with remarkable candor
Debunking AI Myths Legal Professionals Still Believe
AI Myth 1: AI will one day replace legal judgment
Will AI replace lawyers? This concern often surfaces when people see AI generate legal language. Drafting, summarizing, outlining, and issue-spotting sit close enough to legal reasoning that it can feel as though judgment itself is being encroached upon.
The Legal Trends Report shows that AI’s