On Sept. 1, LexisNexis and EvenUp, an AI platform for personal injury lawyers, announced a forthcoming integration by which EvenUp’s customers could access legal insights and agentic AI in LexisNexis Protégé directly from within the EvenUp platform. That integration is now live, and last week the two companies gave me a demo of how it
Reports of the demise of the billable hour have been greatly exaggerated, at least at smaller law firms. With apologies to Mark Twain, that is the central finding of a new report on billing and payment practices at small and midsized law firms. It finds that firms billing solely by the hour outnumber firms billing
A new connector announced today enables Harvey customers to access the AI legal research platform Midpage. The connector makes Midpage’s research library of U.S. case law, statutes, regulations, and agency materials accessible from directly within Harvey, so lawyers can find and cite authority on the same platform they use for drafting and analysis. Midpage already had
Users of the Legora legal AI platform can now access tax research from Blue J Legal via an integration the companies launched today. Legora customers with a subscription to Blue J can now query Blue J’s platform from within Legora and receive answers with inline citations linking back to sources in Blue J. The companies
Chariot Claims, a legal tech company that matches consumers to mass arbitration and class action cases and pairs them with law firms, has raised $10 million in Series A funding, it announced Thursday. Silverton Partners led the round, with General Partner Mike Dodd taking the lead. Indicator Ventures, Lightbank, Neon Fund, ZVC, Rosecliff Venture Partners,
Microsoft today launched Copilot for Legal, offering more than 20 legal-specific skills in Microsoft Copilot, bringing contract review, drafting, obligations tracking and other legal workflows into Word and Cowork, its agentic workspace, along with plugins from more than two dozen legal technology partners. Microsoft now becomes the fourth major AI company in five months to
Control Risks, a global strategic intelligence and security firm, said today that it has entered into an agreement to spin off two of its businesses, Discovery + Data Insights and Forensics, into a new, stand-alone company that will operate initially under the name of Control Risks – Compliance, Investigations & eDiscovery. The new company will
Jennie Morawetz, who was named this week as CEO of regulatory intelligence company SCOREalytics, wants the company’s product to become the accepted standard for how lawyers keep up with regulatory change. “I want using SCORE to be the standard for due diligence, or for a general counsel who’s tasked with staying on top of changes
Legal professionals will now be able to automatically record the time they spend working in the legal AI platform Legora, as the result of a new partnership with the AI timekeeping platform Laurel. With this partnership, the companies announced today, Laurel will turn every task a lawyer completes in Legora into a time entry, with the client,
Partners at law and accounting firms say the one thing they most want from business-development technology is help finding new business in relationships their firms already have. But 78% say the relationship data at their firms is hard to act on, and most of those using AI for business development are using general-purpose chatbots that
Last year, this blog broke the news that the payroll and human resources company PayChex had acquired the employment law compliance and documentation company SixFifty, which had previously been owned by the Silicon Valley law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati as a technology subsidiary, as well as by SixFifty’s CEO Kimball Dean Parker, the
A former mergers-and-acquisitions lawyer at Greenberg Traurig today launched useABI, a legal AI platform for M&A lawyers that is designed to function not as just another AI assistant but as something closer to a working member of a deal team. “With useABI, an M&A lawyer gets the purchase agreement markup, issues list, diligence report and
Perhaps this is the way the case will end, not with a bang but a whimper. With apologies to T. S. Eliot, that was my reaction when I read the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ assessment of the 6.5-year battle between legal information giant Thomson Reuters and once-fledgling startup ROSS Intelligence as “no more
Kirkland & Ellis made headlines again when it stated it will no longer disclose financial information to The American Lawyer magazine and other media after 2026. Firm leadership said financial disclosures could put too much focus on quantitative metrics over the quality and caliber of the firm’s legal services. Kirkland is in a category by
As a former lawyer, a legal technology CEO, and a paying client of five major law firms, I see how legal services are built, sold, and experienced. Recently, my wife and I sent three firms an RFP for personal legal work. One firm responded with a partner’s name, an associate’s name, an hourly rate, and
Following this week’s ruling by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in favor of Thomson Reuters in its long-running copyright battle against the now-shuttered AI legal research company ROSS Intelligence, ROSS says it will seek review in the Supreme Court. Yar Chaikovsky, partner at White & Case, issued a statement on behalf of ROSS