I was at a managing partners conferance recently and every managing partner had the same complaint: they can’t find lawyers, and they can’t keep the ones they have.
t made me think of a recent 8am study that showed too many legal prefesionals are made miserable by admin work demands. It occured to me that
As legal technology advances, AI for law firms is becoming increasingly essential but what law firms need can often be misunderstood. In the webinar “How — and Why — AI Should Fit Into the Way Your Firm Already Works,” Beth Thompson, Vice President of Market Strategy and Legal Evangelism, and Jennifer Ramovs, Senior Director of
Neal Page: Sir, excuse me. I know this is your cab, but I’m desperately late for a plane, and I was wondering if I could appeal to your good nature and ask you to let me have it.
Lawyer getting into cab: I don’t have a good nature.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles, 1987.
There’s a
We’re halfway through the year. For most firms, that’s a quiet milestone. No deadline attached, no client demanding anything. Which is exactly why one of the biggest opportunities often gets missed.
For law firms, artificial intelligence has often arrived as a choice between speed and control. Stephen Costigan, founder of Atlas AI, argues that choice deserves a rethink. In this episode of The Geek in Review, we speak with Costigan about private legal AI infrastructure, knowledge graphs, and why a firm’s internal work product
AI hallucinations in legal filings: Your obligations when you’ve filed one
Let’s start with the situation nobody wants to be in. You’ve submitted a filing, and it contains citations to cases that don’t exist or cases that don’t say what you’ve cited them for. The legal liability for AI hallucinations falls squarely on the signing
In this episode of The Geek in Review, we welcome Greg Dickason, Chief Technology Officer at LexisNexis, for a wide-ranging conversation on agentic legal AI, Lexis+ AI Protégé, and the movement from AI chat toward AI work. Dickason frames the shift through a simple contrast: earlier legal AI answered questions, while agentic workflows
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.
Addressable Headings and
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.