Alexi Technologies has filed its answer and counterclaim against Fastcase, vLex, and Clio, accusing the newly merged legal technology giant of manufacturing breach-of-contract allegations as a pretext to eliminate a competitor in the AI legal research market. In December, Fastcase, now owned by Clio, sued Alexi in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia,
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Dyspute.ai Launches Adri v2, A 24/7 Asynchronous AI Mediation Platform
I have had a strong interest in online dispute resolution ever since at least 1996, when I wrote what I was later told was the first published article about ODR, Cyberspace Becomes Forum for Resolving Disputes. I was so curious about the concept that, in 1999, I put that interest to work, becoming a mediator…
AI Startup AlphaLit Raises $3.2M Seed Round To Screen and Score Smaller Cases and Route them to Lawyers
Over $55 million worth of meritorious civil claims go unfiled annually, particularly in working-class communities, because over 64% of prospective plaintiffs’ calls to law firms are ignored, says legal AI startup AlphaLit. The reason firms ignore those calls is that they cannot financially justify vetting all those small cases. “You might need to have 100…
Harvey Announces Plan To Develop Memory, Enabling Users To Retain Context For More Consistent Work
Legal AI company Harvey today announced plans to develop Memory, a product that will allow users to choose to retain and carry forward the context of their work, including matter details, relevant precedent, working preferences and approved best practices, with the goal of enabling users to achieve greater consistency, efficiency and connectedness. The company also…
Guest Post: The Promise of AI in Legal Has Landed, But Not in the Way People Thought It Would
Augment or empower? The new split in AI for legal. There are still no “AI lawyers,” no bots running matters end to end or standing up in court. What we’re seeing instead is far more interesting: hundreds of focused solutions that chip away at specific problems. Taken together, they’re quietly reshaping the way legal work…
Exclusive: Filevine Acquires Pincites, AI-Powered Contract Redlining Company, Strengthening Its Positioning for Corporate Legal and Enhancing Its AI
Legal technology company Filevine has acquired Pincites, an AI-powered contract redlining company, in a deal that moves the company further into corporate and transactional law, complementing its strong presence in litigation, and that furthers its AI strategy. The deal marks Filevine’s second major AI acquisition of 2025, following its April acquisition of Parrot, a platform…
Court Denies Alexi’s Emergency Motion to Restore Access to Fastcase Data
In an early win for legal research company Fastcase in its data-licensing lawsuit against AI legal research platform Alexi, a federal judge has denied Alexi’s emergency request for a temporary restraining order that would have compelled Fastcase to restore Alexi’s access to its proprietary legal database. In Washington, D.C., U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon…
ABA Task Force: AI Has Moved From Experiment to Infrastructure for the Legal Profession
Artificial intelligence is no longer an abstract or experimental technology for lawyers – it is rapidly becoming core infrastructure for law practice, courts, legal education and access-to-justice efforts, and the legal profession must now shift its focus from whether to use AI to how to govern, supervise and integrate it responsibly. That is the central…
Clearbrief Launches Cite Check Report to Give Law Firm Partners an Audit Trail Against AI Hallucinations
With more than 650 documented cases of AI hallucinations appearing in court filings, and courts imposing sanctions ranging from tens of thousands of dollars to removal from client representations, law firm partners face an uncomfortable quandary: How can they confidently sign pleadings when they cannot be certain whether someone on their team used AI tools…
Aderant and Harvey Announce Partnership To Bridge the Gap Between Business and Practice of Law
Legal business software company Aderant and legal AI company Harvey today announced a partnership they are describing as “market-defining” for the way it will bridge the gap between software for the business of law and software for the practice of law. “Together, the companies will deliver the industry’s first deeply connected ecosystem that unites AI-powered…