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Guest Post: Beyond the Billable Hour — Will AI Finally Make Fixed Fees the Norm?
Thirty-five years ago, lawyers told me fixed fees could never work. A skyscraper and a quarter helped me address their concerns but nothing ever changed. AI gives us a new reason to listen. There is plenty of talk today about whether AI will end the billable hour. If work that…
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After Signing On with Upstart Legal Research Service Decisis, Maine Bar Switches to Clio Library
Over the past few years, there have been a few twists and turns in the competition among legal research platforms to be the preferred partner of state and local bar associations. Once, that competition was almost exclusively between Fastcase and Casemaker. That changed when…
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Today on Legaltech Week: Conference Round-Up – Reports from ClioCon, Everlaw and NetDocs – Plus Law360’s Rachel Rippetoe Sits In
Got conferences? If so, then probably one or more of Legaltech Week’s regular panelists has been there in the last couple weeks — from ClioCon in Boston to the Everlaw Summit in San Francisco to NetDocuments Inspire in Orland0 and some smaller ones along the way — and we will be…
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LawNext Podcast: NetDocs CEO Josh Baxter on Why the DMS is Becoming the Law Firm’s ‘Intelligence Layer’
NetDocuments CEO Josh Baxter believes the document management system is becoming something even greater — a law firm’s organizational intelligence layer. As lawyers increasingly do their work inside AI tools such as Claude, Harvey, Legora and ChatGPT, Baxter says NetDocuments’…
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At Its Annual Summit, Everlaw Unveils Omni, Its Agentic AI Suite, But CEO Says Customers Are Even More Excited About Opening Its Platform to Other AI Tools
At its annual Everlaw Summit in San Francisco this week, the e-discovery company Everlaw unveiled Omni, an agentic AI investigation suite that orchestrates the full range of the company’s tools to answer questions about a case. The company also launched Workflows, a…
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At ClioCon, Legal’s AI Future Is Already Here, Along with 3,000 People Eager to Shape It
Within the span of 48 hours this week, I was an in-person witness to the legal profession’s divide on AI. Through a bit of karmic coincidence, I was in a room one day dominated by people who fear it as a threat, and then two days later with those who embrace it as an…
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ClioCon 2026: A Quick Wrap-Up of Everything Clio Announced Today (And It’s A Lot)
Clio rolled out a ton of news today, as founder and CEO Jack Newton delivered the opening keynote at the annual ClioCon conference in Boston — from major new products and features, to a new acquisition, and even new branding. While I am too busy here for the next two days to…
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LexisNexis Protégé Is Now Live In EvenUp, Letting PI Lawyers Query Case Law Using Facts From Their Case Records
On Sept. 1, LexisNexis and EvenUp, an AI platform for personal injury lawyers, announced a forthcoming integration by which EvenUp’s customers could access legal insights and agentic AI in LexisNexis Protégé directly from within the EvenUp platform. That integration is now live,…
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Reports of the Billable Hour’s Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated, 8am Data Finds
Reports of the demise of the billable hour have been greatly exaggerated, at least at smaller law firms. With apologies to Mark Twain, that is the central finding of a new report on billing and payment practices at small and midsized law firms. It finds that firms billing solely…
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Harvey Now Connects to Legal Research Platform Midpage Through An MCP Connector
A new connector announced today enables Harvey customers to access the AI legal research platform Midpage. The connector makes Midpage’s research library of U.S. case law, statutes, regulations, and agency materials accessible from directly within Harvey, so lawyers can find and…
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New MCP Makes Tax Research from Blue J Available from within Legora
Users of the Legora legal AI platform can now access tax research from Blue J Legal via an integration the companies launched today. Legora customers with a subscription to Blue J can now query Blue J’s platform from within Legora and receive answers with inline citations…
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Chariot Claims Raises $10M Series A To Fuel Mass Consumer Arbitrations
Chariot Claims, a legal tech company that matches consumers to mass arbitration and class action cases and pairs them with law firms, has raised $10 million in Series A funding, it announced Thursday. Silverton Partners led the round, with General Partner Mike Dodd taking the…
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Microsoft Launches Copilot for Legal, Becoming the Fourth AI Giant in Five Months to Build Out a Legal Vertical
Microsoft today launched Copilot for Legal, offering more than 20 legal-specific skills in Microsoft Copilot, bringing contract review, drafting, obligations tracking and other legal workflows into Word and Cowork, its agentic workspace, along with plugins from more than two…
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Control Risks To Spin Off Its Discovery, Data and Forensics Businesses Into A New Company
Control Risks, a global strategic intelligence and security firm, said today that it has entered into an agreement to spin off two of its businesses, Discovery + Data Insights and Forensics, into a new, stand-alone company that will operate initially under the name of Control…
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New SCOREalytics CEO Jennie Morawetz on Building Regulatory Intelligence Lawyers Can Rely On
Jennie Morawetz, who was named this week as CEO of regulatory intelligence company SCOREalytics, wants the company’s product to become the accepted standard for how lawyers keep up with regulatory change. “I want using SCORE to be the standard for due diligence, or for a general…
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Legora and Laurel Partner to Enable Automatic Time Capture; Will Later Develop Measures of Legora’s Value to Firms
Legal professionals will now be able to automatically record the time they spend working in the legal AI platform Legora, as the result of a new partnership with the AI timekeeping platform Laurel. With this partnership, the companies announced today, Laurel will turn every task…
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Former Big Law M&A Lawyer Launches useABI, an AI ‘Associate’ That Produces Deal Docs Without Prompting
A former mergers-and-acquisitions lawyer at Greenberg Traurig today launched useABI, a legal AI platform for M&A lawyers that is designed to function not as just another AI assistant but as something closer to a working member of a deal team. “With useABI, an M&A lawyer gets the…
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In First Major Release Since PayChex Acquisition, SixFifty Launches Agentic HR Compliance Feature
Last year, this blog broke the news that the payroll and human resources company PayChex had acquired the employment law compliance and documentation company SixFifty, which had previously been owned by the Silicon Valley law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati as a technology…
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Partners Want AI to Help Them Find New Business, But Most Are Running It on Data They Can’t Use, Introhive Survey Finds
Partners at law and accounting firms say the one thing they most want from business-development technology is help finding new business in relationships their firms already have. But 78% say the relationship data at their firms is hard to act on, and most of those using AI for…
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‘No More Than an Ordinary Copyright Case’ — 3rd Circuit Unseals Its Opinion In Thomson Reuters Case Against ROSS
Perhaps this is the way the case will end, not with a bang but a whimper. With apologies to T. S. Eliot, that was my reaction when I read the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ assessment of the 6.5-year battle between legal information giant Thomson Reuters and once-fledgling…