Editor’s Note: Market volatility on February 3, 2026, followed Anthropic’s announcement of legal workflow plugins for its Claude Cowork platform, with sharp stock movements affecting Thomson Reuters, RELX, Wolters Kluwer, and other information and legal technology providers. The reaction reflected investor concern about the potential implications of agentic AI for established legal and data-driven business
Improving the Lawline Live Webcast Experience
Live continuing legal education (CLE) has a challenge that’s hard to solve: keeping viewers engaged. When you’re watching a webcast that runs an hour or longer, it’s easy to lose focus, get pulled away by an email, or simply zone out for a few minutes. When you come back, you’re left wondering what you missed…
Survive and Thrive in the Risk Landscape: How Legal Data Pros Use Gen AI
In the legal data industry, there’s been consistent speculation around legal AI tools, from their risks to their sheer potential. Somewhere beyond the hype, pomp, and circumstance, are tangible insights on how to navigate this thing.
New CCPA Risk Assessment Requirements Now In Effect
Under newly implemented regulations of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California now requires a formal risk assessment “before initiating any processing activity” of certain (sensitive) sorts. The regulation explicitly contemplates that businesses will complete risk assessments now, in 2026.
Eventually, such risk assessments – including those completed this year – must be signed by an executive and submitted to the California regulator under penalty of perjury.
Canada Expands Citizenship-by-Descent Rights with Bill C-3 — “Lost Canadians” Reinstated and New Framework for Future Generations
CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA, February 3, 2026 / EINPresswire.com / Canada Expands Citizenship-by-Descent Rights with Bill C-3 — “Lost Canadians” Reinstated and New Framework for Future GenerationsCanada has expanded citizenship-by-descent rights, restoring citizenship to thousands previously excluded and modernizing how citizenship is passed to future generations. Calgary, AB – February 3, 2026 – As…
Centralizing collaboration to reduce engagement friction
By Colin McKee
Your advisory practice is growing faster than audit. Your best talent wants flexibility you could not offer five years ago. And your newest partner just lost three hours reconstructing context from a client file that lives across SharePoint, your practice management system, and someone’s inbox.
This is not a technology problem. It is a revenue…
Revenue Up, Profits Flat: Decoding the eDiscovery Margin Puzzle
Editor’s Note: The eDiscovery industry enters 2026 at a crossroads. The 2H 2025 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey—the 38th edition of this benchmark conducted by ComplexDiscovery OÜ and EDRM—quantifies a growing tension: twice as many respondents expect profits to decline as expect revenues to fall.
This divergence demands interpretation. Is it a temporary byproduct of capital-intensive…
Shadow IT and AI in Law Firms: Risks and Prevention Guide
What is shadow IT?
Shadow IT is software that’s used without any knowledge, approval, or oversight from a law firm’s IT experts. Broadly speaking, shadow IT includes software that is downloaded and installed on local hardware, as well as cloud-based tools that can be accessed by logging into a web browser.
For example, individuals may…
Moltbook and the Rise of AI-Agent Networks: An Enterprise Governance Wake-Up Call
Editor’s Note: Moltbook’s AI-only social network is doing more than generating lobster memes—it’s quietly expanding the enterprise attack surface into a place most security and governance programs aren’t watching. When autonomous agents can post, vote, and “socialize” at machine speed—while also holding real permissions to email, calendars, code execution, and corporate files—the line between novelty…
Year in Review: 2025 Artificial Intelligence-Privacy Litigation Trends
In 2025, state and federal officials continued scrutinizing the data privacy aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, with enforcement agencies focusing on deceptive marketing claims, opaque data use disclosures, and potential risks to children stemming from chatbots and AI enabled customer interaction tools.