The matter is closed, but the final invoice hasn’t gone out. Or it has, and it’s aging in a client’s inbox. Meanwhile, Am Law 100 realization rates hit a five-year low in 2024, and law firm revenue continues to leak between case completion and payment collected.
Structured law firm billing workflows, clear payment terms,
The latest episode of The Geek in Review finds Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer back from Dallas with a sharp, grounded recap of the Texas Trailblazers conference, an event that stayed close to the daily realities of legal work instead of drifting into glossy predictions. Their conversation centers on a legal industry trying to sort
Efficiency and scalability are on the minds of every law firm. In late 2024, Howells Solicitors had reached a crossroad: their firm couldn’t grow the way they wanted it to because their current systems were holding them back.
Howells Solicitors has four offices across South Wales and close to 200 employees. Their work spans seven different practice areas; including family, personal injury, and real estate conveyancing. Despite that, in
This week we welcome back Niki Black to unpack the findings from the newly released 2026 Legal Industry Report from 8am The conversation centers on a legal profession moving into a new phase of AI adoption, where individual lawyers are embracing general purpose AI tools at a striking pace, while many firms still lack even
We just shipped two features that work at different layers but serve the same goal: making every piece of content in the LexBlog Library easier to find, easier to reference and correctly attributed—whether the reader is a person, a search engine or an AI system.
Here’s what changed and why it matters.
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The legal profession continues to transform in 2026. Digital tools are now indispensable for firms looking to stay ahead in an increasingly competitive industry.Today’s top law firms incorporate technology that helps them deliver a better customer experience, reduce busywork for lawyers and staff, and improve overall efficiency.Below, we’ll look at the 10 best apps for
Many law firms recommend CARET Legal for a simple reason: it brings everything together in a single, easy-to-use platform. Instead of juggling
An investigation into why serious AI work depends less on clever prompts and more on defending invariants, boundaries, and human judgment.At the end of a long, technical AI session this week, something became clear to me: human-in-the-loop is being misunderstood in ways that matter.The issue wasn’t whether the system could generate outputs quickly or fluently.
New AI-driven product eliminates manual time tracking and fast-tracks time to bill, extending Actionstep’s momentum in operational and profitability innovation for law firms.
January 28, 2026 — Denver, CO — Actionstep, a leading provider of cloud-based law firm management software supporting nearly 5,000 law firms globally, today announced a major acceleration of its product
Managing your firm’s finances should not feel harder than practicing law. Many attorneys still struggle with billing, bookkeeping, and trust account rules. Retainers create extra steps. Matter-based billing adds more detail to track. Trust requirements leave little room for mistakes. Small gaps can turn into big problems.
QuickBooks is a popular tool for small businesses.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – January 14, 2026 – Filevine has acquired Pincites, an AI-powered drafting and contract redlining tool built for Microsoft Word and trusted by enterprise teams at high-growth technology and global companies including Redis, Glean, and Vercel. With this acquisition, the full Pincites team has joined Filevine and together will create litigation-specific
Off to Las Vegas for my 7th year covering CES, where the AI hype machine often runs at full throttle. I’m going to try to separate substance from noise and get an idea of trends and issues that may impact legal.I’ll be especially interested in the gaps between vendor promises and implementation reality. Will also
Imagine this scenario: A midsize firm discovers a compromise through an employee’s credentials. While teams investigate and leadership prepares a statement to their customers, clients begin calling for reassurance or to initiate transfers. Internally, workflows start to stall, staff scramble, and partners confront not just the financial exposure, but the fall out of broken trust that underpins the entire practice.
According to the
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We recorded this episode live at the TLTF Summit and the energy in the room made it feel like the perfect place for a conversation about growth, training, and the rapid climb of legal tech. We grabbed our gear, claimed a corner in the podcast room, and pulled in two guests with front row seats