It’s the expensive mistake many legal departments don’t want to admit: it just spent a good chunk of change on a shiny new piece of legal tech software, yet many of the manual processes and unorganized workflows remain. Often, blame is placed on the software, but the reality is often more uncomfortable.
As Akshay Verma
Legal Tech Vendors Roll Out Wave of Announcements Ahead of Legalweek; News From DISCO, Advocacy, iManage, Monjur, Reveal and ChronoTracer and ALIGN
With Legalweek 2026 set to open Monday in New York City, legal technology companies have been rolling out a string of product announcements and company news in the days leading up to the conference. The pre-conference wave covers a range of developments, from new AI platforms and funding rounds to enhancements in e-discovery tools and
AI Commerce Hits a Reality Check as Regulators Circle the Travel Industry
Good Sunday afternoon (for some of us, a dreaded “spring forward” afternoon) from Seattle . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, March 6, 2026, is below. This past week began with news out of the UK of a new CMA investigation into the hotel industry and ended with ChatGPT’s
Devoiding The Cobra Effect
As might be obvious, I like to write. Writing enables me to think things through, to come to grips with the errors of my views and the beliefs that cannot be justified or explained. In other words, I don’t know what I think until I see what I write. (Sorry, Bill.)
At Techdirt, Mike Masnick
AI Double Take with Tom Martin and Sateesh Nori
Episode SummaryIn this month’s AI Double Take, LawDroid CEO Tom Martin and Chief Legal Futurist Sateesh Nori survey a turbulent February in AI, from a bombshell economic forecast to a viral legal AI post, a proposed New York law, and a surprise leap to the top of the App Store. The hosts wrestle with AI’s
Will Anthropic sue the Defense Department after Anthropic was designated as “Supply Chain Risk”?
The NewYorkTimes.com reported that “Anthropic has said it will sue the Defense Department over the designation, which could prevent the start-up from doing business with the U.S. government.” The March 5, 2026 article entitled ” Pentagon Officially Notifies Anthropic It Is a ‘Supply Chain Risk’” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/technology/anthropic-supply-chain-risk-defense-department.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share) included these comments:
The Defense Department has
Nonprofit Resources of the Week – 3/7/26
Nonprofit Resources of the Week curates timely articles, tools, and commentary to help nonprofit organizations, their leaders, and their advisors stay informed about legal developments, sector trends, and emerging issues affecting the nonprofit and philanthropic ecosystem, including those related to equity, climate change, and resilience. The series also seeks to share tools, perspectives, and sources
Orbiting A.I.-deraan? A Disturbance in the Force for the Defense Industrial Base
“I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.”
When Obi-Wan Kenobi says this in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, he senses that something profound just changed in the galaxy. A powerful presence has vanished. The balance of power shifting in ways that will ripple far beyond the immediate moment. As Yoda later describes the Force: “Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us, binds us.” In this way, artificial intelligence (AI) is beginning to play a role for the US Defense Industrial Base (DIB) not unlike the Force itself—quietly enhancing the capabilities of engineers, analysts, and compliance professionals across thousands of organizations supporting national defense programs.
So what could happen if a major AI player suddenly disappears from the board?
State AG News: Rental Price Fixing, AI Regulation in Healthcare, Student Loans (February 26- March 4, 2026)
Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. See our State Attorneys General page for more insights. Below are the updates from February 26-March 4, 2026:
- A coalition of ten attorneys general filed a comment letter opposing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rule to remove provisions from its Freedom of Information Act regulations that expedite requests for public records related to environmental justice-related needs and that waive fees for such requests.
- A coalition of 21 attorneys general sent a letter to GoFundMe following reports that the organization created unauthorized donation web pages for over 1.4 million charities nationwide without their prior knowledge or consent. The coalition calls for immediate remedial measures including providing proof that GoFundMe has removed all unauthorized donation web pages within the next 14 days.
A Complete Analysis of the Winter 2026 eDiscovery Pricing Survey
Editor’s Note: Generative AI is no longer a future-state concept in eDiscovery pricing; it is already reshaping how legal, technology, and corporate teams evaluate cost, value, and defensibility. In this Winter 2026 Pricing Pulse analysis, ComplexDiscovery OÜ, in partnership with EDRM, examines a market that is simultaneously stabilizing in traditional service categories and fragmenting in