The operational bottleneck limiting law firm growth
Running a law firm today means managing far more than legal work. Beyond substantive matter work, your team juggles new client intake, appointment scheduling, payment follow-ups, status updates, and the steady stream of questions that clients expect answered.
Each of these tasks is manageable on its
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Will AI Mean the Death of the Billable Hour in Legal?
With artificial intelligence, legal professionals are getting much more done in a day. But for law firms that bill primarily by the hour, this may not bode well. As lawyers complete their work faster for clients, they log fewer billable hours, which means less revenue for the firm.
Due to this conflict between efficiency and…
AI Use Cases in Law: What Lawyers Can Actually Use AI for Today
Discover what AI can actually do for your firm.
Clio’s secure, legal-specific AI is built to support research, drafting, and everyday legal workflows.
Clio’s secure, legal-specific AI is built to support research, drafting, and everyday legal workflows.
Top AI use cases in law across the legal workflow
Here’s how AI supports lawyers in both the practice of law and the business of running a firm.…
How to Start a Legal Podcast
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…
California Senate Passes SB 574 to Regulate Lawyers’ Use of AI
What SB 574 requires: four considerations for lawyers using AI
The bill doesn’t ban AI use in legal practice. Instead, it clarifies that existing professional obligations (confidentiality, competence, accuracy, and fairness) still apply when using AI tools.
The bill defines generative artificial intelligence as an “artificial intelligence system that can generate derived synthetic content, including…
AI Legal Compliance for Law Firms: What Lawyers Need to Know in 2026
By Damien Riehl
What is AI legal compliance?
AI legal compliance refers to a law firm’s duty to ensure the use of AI-based legal technology remains safe, ethical, and lawful. More specifically, while the methods for achieving AI legal compliance may vary, all law firms must be able to demonstrate that their use of AI tools remains in
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21 Research-Backed Ways AI Helps Lawyers
Research into how AI can help lawyers
One of the more exciting aspects of witnessing a breakthrough technology like AI emerge seemingly overnight is to observe how it manifests in our daily life. In addition to us finding new ways to apply AI every day, the technology itself is also fast evolving.
To keep up…
Matter-Aware AI for Lawyers: What It Is and Why It Matters
What is matter-aware AI?
Matter-aware AI is legal artificial intelligence that connects directly to your practice management system and automatically understands your entire case file (—your documents, timeline, work product, and matter details) —before you even ask a question.
Most AI tools work differently: You type a question, they search a database, and return an…
How to Reduce Cognitive Overload in Lawyers
Mental health is a known problem in the legal profession
It can’t be talked about enough: legal professionals suffer disproportionally from mental health issues.
A recent study from Bloomberg Law found that lawyers reported feeling burned out in their work 42% of the time. Two key factors were that 49% were unable to disconnect from…