Everything’s bigger in Texas—including its potential to redefine the future of legal practice.
According to a recent Smokeball survey on legal technology and wellness, Texas lawyers are ready for change. They’re more curious and less skeptical about adopting new legal technology than their peers across the country.
Roughly one in three Texas respondents identified as
Digital marketing for law firms is changing fast.
With the rise of AI tools and alternative search platforms, it’s easy to wonder if SEO, the alleged benchmark for all digital marketing over the last two decades, is still worth it. The short answer is yes, most firms can absolutely generate leads and clients through Google,
The silence was deafening.
When Jack Newton, CEO of Clio, unveiled AI technology that reduces ten hours of legal work to forty-five minutes at ClioCon, 2,500 attorneys sat in stunned silence. Not because they were bored, mind you, but because they were processing a future that had just arrived faster than anyone expected.
Artificial intelligence is changing how law firms market, communicate, and connect with potential clients. What once took weeks of production, manual data analysis, and endless revisions can now happen in a fraction of the time with greater precision.
I spoke with Mark Doble, the Founder and CEO of Alexi, an AI-driven legal workflow platform. We discussed how legal professionals can prevent hallucinations and build trust in legal AI, the top privacy and compliance risks that law firms need to consider, and how generative AI will transform legal workflows.
AI has fundamentally changed the way people search for information on the internet. Since March of 2024, Google has been serving AI overview for certain searches, which provide synthesized information pulled from a variety of sources – with citations to each source.
Google’s AI Overviews have moved beyond “experimental feature” to standard SERP real estate,
What really happened in OpenAI’s latest usage policies update
On October 29, 2025, OpenAI released updated usage policies outlining what users can and can’t do with its products and services.
One line in particular sparked confusion, as many interpreted it as ending ChatGPT’s ability to answer legal questions entirely:
“You cannot use our services for…the
In this 49th episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill, Editor and Publisher of Legal IT Insider, and I discussed Legal IT Insider’s 30th anniversary, the first Orange Rag, the potential for an AI bubble, and emerging AI leadership.
Clio CEO, Jack Newton’s keynote at ClioCon this year covered a wide range of items, including Clio’s expansion into the enterprise market, the transformative investment in AI through the vLex acquisition, and the convergence of law and the business of law through Clio Work.
But what hit home for me was Jack’s discussion on unlocking
When I wrote my recent post, Human Leadership in an AI World: Reflections from Relativity Fest 2025, I explored what it means to lead in an era defined by artificial intelligence and how technology is reshaping decisions, teams, and expectations for leaders everywhere. That reflection got me thinking about something more personal and perhaps even