Josef, the Australia-based legal automation platform, has launched a new capability it is calling the Rapid Ingestion Engine, which uses AI to convert unstructured business inputs — such as email threads, meeting notes and term sheets — into the structured data that legal workflow templates require. The idea, according to Josef CEO and cofounder Tom
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Clio Adds Agentic AI Capabilities to Clio Work, Also Launches Vincent Mobile App
Clio today announced two notable updates to its AI product line: the addition of agentic capabilities to Clio Work, and the launch of a standalone Vincent by Clio mobile app for iOS and Android. Agentic Clio Work When Clio CEO Jack Newton unveiled Clio Work at ClioCon last October — in a keynote that left
In AI-Powered Brand Deal, Harvey Partners with Yet Another Harvey — You Know, Its Other Namesake
Following its February news that it had entered into a brand partnership withj Gabriel Macht, who played Harvey Specter in the TV series Suits, the legal AI company Harvey said today that it has entered into another such partnership involving another iconic Harvey — only this time it is using AI to make the partnership
AI That Listens Like a Lawyer: A Side-by-Side Comparison of General AI Notetakers and Legal Conversational Intelligence
AI That Listens Like a Lawyer: Courts Are Exposing the Gap Between What AI Notetakers Promise and What Their Contracts Permit. Purpose-Built Legal Conversational Intelligence™ Tools, Such as Querious®, Offer Attorneys a Defensible Path Forward. A gap exists between how general-purpose AI notetakers are marketed to legal professionals and what their terms of service permit.
Exclusive: Smokeball and Thomson Reuters Partner to Integrate CoCounsel Legal AI with Practice Management Platform
Smokeball, the cloud-based practice management platform serving small to mid-sized law firms, and Thomson Reuters announced a strategic partnership today that will embed Thomson Reuters’ CoCounsel Legal AI into Smokeball’s practice management software — a combination the companies say brings together deep legal content and advanced AI capabilities with broad practice management functionality in a
Legal Industry Reaches AI Tipping Point: Majority of Lawyers Now Using Gen AI Despite Persistent Reliability Concerns
The legal profession crossed a significant threshold in 2025: For the first time, more lawyers are using generative AI than not, even as firm leaders express widespread concern about the technology’s reliability, according to the 2025 State of the Legal Industry report released today by SurePoint Technologies. The tension between adoption and apprehension defines the
LawNext on Location: Visiting Everlaw’s Headquarters For A Conversation with AJ Shankar, Founder and CEO
For the final installment of our LawNext on Location series, all recorded during my trip to San Francisco, I head across the bay to Oakland, to the headquarters of e-discovery company Everlaw, where I sit down with founder and CEO AJ Shankar for a conversation about technology, AI and being in it for the long
Aderant Adds AI-Powered Performance Evaluation Tools to Its vi Talent Management Suite
Aderant, the Atlanta-based provider of business management software for law firms, today announced the addition of AI-powered capabilities to its vi by Aderant talent management suite, including AI-assisted employee performance evaluations, real-time sentiment analysis, and auto-summarization features within its viEval and viAllocate products. The company says these are the first client-facing AI capabilities within the
Guest Post: The New Physics of Legal Tech: Who Performs Legal Work in the AI Era? (Part 3 of 3)
This is the final installment in a three-part series examining the forces reshaping the legal industry. Part One and Part Two covered the macro dynamics of the AI industrial revolution and also the bending of UPL as consumers turn to AI products such as ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity for legal advice. Consumer behavior will lead,
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