Thomson Reuters President and CEO Steve Hasker believes the legal profession is experiencing “the biggest disruption … in its history” due to generative and agentic artificial intelligence, fundamentally rewriting how legal work products are created for the first time in more than 300 years. Speaking to legal technology reporters during ILTACON, the International Legal Technology […] read more

AffiniPay, a company that develops technology for lawyers and accountants, today announced it has rebranded to “8am,” to better reflect its identity as it has evolved from its origins as a payments processor to a comprehensive suite of products for legal, accounting, and other professional services firms. The Austin-based company’s rebrand encompasses the parent company […] read more

Pre/Dicta, a legal analytics company that specializes in predictive modeling of judicial decision-making, today announced a significant expansion of its platform featuring new appellate forecasting capabilities, enhanced biographical intelligence tools, and comparative prediction features across judges, venues and law firms. The New York-based company, which claims an 85% accuracy rate in predicting the outcomes of […] read more

Last Friday, Aug. 15, as I began to make my way home from ILTACON 2025, and finally had enough of a break from the conference’s non-stop, four-day flurry of activity to check up on my social media, I took notice of the posts commemorating the 56th anniversary of Woodstock, which, as it happens, began on […] read more

LexisNexis Legal & Professional today introduced Protégé General AI, expanding its artificial intelligence platform to include secure access to multiple general-purpose AI models alongside its existing legal-specific AI tools. This eliminates the need to switch contexts between legal-specific and general-purpose AI tools and provides a higher degree of security when using the general tools. Launched […] read more

In an in-depth piece I wrote about HerculesAI last February, I noted that the past year had been a big one for the company. Well, it just got even bigger, as Aderant, a leading global provider of business management software for law firms, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire HerculesAI’s legal technology […] read more

This year’s ILTACON, which starts later this week, marks the second anniversary of Harbor, a global expert services company formed through the merger of three long-established legal consulting firms: HBR Consulting, LAC Group, and Wilson Allen, and that formally launched at ILTACON in 2023.  The company, which counts among its clients some 80% of the […] read more

Two months ago, at a media briefing in its New York City offices, Thomson Reuters teased the launch of the “next gen” of its CoCounsel artificial intelligence platform, marking what the company said would be a fundamental shift from AI assistants that respond to prompts to intelligent agentic systems that can plan, reason and execute […] read more

NetDocuments today announced significant enhancements of its document management system, introducing AI-powered document profiling capabilities and the company’s first agentic AI tool for editing documents directly within Microsoft Word. The new features come as part of the company’s ongoing push to embed artificial intelligence more deeply into legal workflows while enabling legal professionals to maintain […] read more

[Note: This year marks the 30th in which I’ve been tracking the development of legal tech — or at least that is the earliest evidence I can find of when I started regularly writing about the subject.  In commemoration of that milestone, I decided to write a post highlighting the major themes that have characterized […] read more