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So next week starts the annual ILTACON. It's one of the biggest legal tech shows. Maybe the biggest. And like everything over the top it's a love hate relationship. To paraphrase a famous authort "Until you go to ILTACON and behold it with your own eyes, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen...
For some time, I have been concerned about the amount of AI slop that's being offered. It's all over social media and seeps into marketing and advertising. I hate it. But I fear that the more people read AI slop, the more normal it becomes until it becomes, God forbid, the accepted and expected way...
"One of the things I point out to people is how unsurprising it is that we're in this environment, that the token subsidy era has ended," says Rudy DeFelice, global [...] The post Tokenomics: "Use the right GenAI tool for the right job" appeared first on Legal IT Insider.
Beyond Hallucination: Semantic Laundering, Semantic Stewardship, and Prompting Aikido in Human-AI Collaboration Abstract: The primary conversation surrounding generative artificial intelligence centers on factual fabrication: hallucination. While hallucination matters, it represents a crude and easily detected failure mode. This paper identifies a second, quieter epistemic risk: semantic…
Clifford Chance in July announced the launch of a new knowledge management platform, developed in partnership with Epiq Advisory for Law Firms and Microsoft. Legal IT Insider spoke with Clifford Chance's global head [...] The post From the Orange Rag: Clifford Chance reimagines knowledge management for the AI era appeared first on Legal IT Insider.
Two recent federal criminal actions show the Justice Department continuing to press aggressively in both competition and health care enforcement. In Oklahoma City, a federal jury convicted Sioux Erosion Control Inc., along with one executive and one employee, for participating in a roughly $100 million bid-rigging and price-fixing conspiracy tied to public transportation contracts. In...
Need to get caught up on the product releases, industry hires, and new partnerships before ILTACON 2026? Legaltech News has got you covered.
A federal appeals court has blocked above-ground construction of President Donald Trump's proposed $400 million White House ballroom, preserving a preliminary injunction that prevents the project from moving forward while the administration seeks further review. The decision puts a high-profile spotlight on a basic constitutional question: whether the executive branch can unilaterally authorize a…
Harvey’s research showed Tenet performing competitively against frontier AI models from developers including Anthropic, OpenAI and Google across a range of legal agent and knowledge benchmarks.
Curate, which is in beta, aims to help law firms and legal teams move document automation projects forward by identifying specific language across uploaded transactional documents and turning it into customizable templates.
The new startup, which creates digital twins of law firm professionals to help better access and share attorneys’ knowledge and judgment, counts a number of Am Law 50 firms as clients.
Last week, I announced that I'll be speaking on an ACEDS webinar titled "Why Paralegals Are the Secret Weapon for Legal Teams in an AI Era" on August 21, 2026. The response was immediate - and revealing. Some celebrated the framing. Janice Holman, Head of Global Academic Partnerships at Relativity called paralegals "the glue, soul...
Law practice company Clio said today that it is bringing AI to Clio Grow, its client intake and relationship management product. Clio describes the new Grow AI as a set of features within Grow "that work around the clock to turn inquiries into clients." The product targets a problem documented by Clio's Legal Trends Report....
The Second Circuit has revived investor claims arising from the 2023 collapse of Signature Bank, handing shareholders an important win in a closely watched dispute over who gets to control fraud-based claims after a bank fails. At the center of the appeal was the FDIC's argument that, once it became receiver for Signature Bank, it...
Twin1 AI, a platform that "gives every professional an AI-powered digital twin" and is already working with a number of large law firms has come out of stealth with a [...] The post Digital twin startup Twin1 raises $20m as Linklaters, Orrick and Dechert sign up appeared first on Legal IT Insider.
iManage and Thomson Reuters today (20 August) announced a deeper strategic partnership including model context protocol support that enables Thomson Reuters' AI tools to access provisioned iManage content while preserving [...] The post Thomson Reuters and iManage deepen AI partnership with MCP-enabled knowledge integration appeared first on Legal IT Insider.
If you're in the camp that likes to read about wholesale transformation that avoids a 'shiny things' strategy, read on. Independent international law firm Kinstellar, driven by a couple of [...] The post Kinstellar bets on best-of-breed as it accelerates firmwide transformation appeared first on Legal IT Insider.
The document management company NetDocuments today announced two additions to its platform's AI capabilities. One, Tabular Review, is a tool that lets users analyze collections of documents in a structured table. The other, Legal Authorities, automatically extracts case citations from documents as they are saved to the platform and links them to the full case...
For years, I have been concerned that cybersecurity and the risk of data breach does not get the attention they deserve at many law firms. Part of it is becasue law firm leadership often does not understand cybersecurity and part of it is cybersecurity is just a cost drain. That's why the new IBM study...
The Supreme Court has declined to review Donald Trump's effort to undo the civil verdict in favor of writer E. Jean Carroll, leaving intact the $5 million judgment entered after a jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation. The denial leaves the Second Circuit's decision in place and effectively ends this round of...
Independent international law firm Kinstellar has selected AI timekeeping and work intelligence vendor Laurel AI as part of a wholesale transformation drive, we can reveal. The firm, which has circa 400 lawyers and 15 offices [...] The post Kinstellar selects Laurel AI in "commercial excellence" drive appeared first on Legal IT Insider.
