Clio Plants Its Flag In Big Law Land with Acquisition of Enterprise Law Firm Software Provider ShareDo

This post was originally published on this siteThe motto of law practice management company Clio is to “transform the legal experience for all.” But for many of its 17 years in business, that “all” has focused primarily on smaller law firms and their clients. Last year, Clio expanded that “all” to include mid-sized firms, and, […]

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Guest Post: From Experiment to Essential — How Legal AI is Changing Everything for my Team

This post was originally published on this siteThe legal world’s embrace of AI in the past year hasn’t just increased — it’s exploded. Law firms that were cautiously experimenting with AI in 2023 are now integrating it into their daily workflows. The shift has been particularly dramatic among mid-sized firms, who initially watched the Am […]

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How A New Documentary Aims To Raise Public Awareness Of The Access To Justice Crisis (and the Crowdfunding Campaign to Support It)

This post was originally published on this siteOn this week’s show: LawNext takes you to the movies. Well, to a specific movie, anyway – a documentary being made to raise public awareness and understanding of the access to justice crisis in this country. Today’s guests are the film’s director, documentary filmmaker Laura Hand, who previously […]

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AffiniPay’s 2025 Legal Industry Report Portrays A Profession At A Technological Crossroads

This post was originally published on this siteAffiniPay, the parent company of a group of technology products for managing law practices and accepting online payments, including LawPay and MyCase, today released its 2025 Legal Industry Report, based on a survey of over 2,800 legal professionals, primarily in solo and small firms, and it reveals a profession at a […]

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DeepJudge Introduces AI Workflows, Connecting Gen AI To Enterprise Search of Law Firms’ Internal Data

This post was originally published on this siteDeepJudge, developer of an AI-powered search platform for internal law firm data, has launched AI Workflows, a new feature of its product that allows law firms to deploy AI agents and applications across their internal firm data. The feature provides built-in AI workflows and also allows firms to […]

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Merlin Launches Alchemy, Its 4th-Generation Document Intelligence Platform For Discovery and Litigation

This post was originally published on this siteThe e-discovery company Merlin Search Technologies has launched Alchemy, a “document intelligence platform,” driven by generative artificial intelligence, that is designed to transform unstructured data into actionable intelligence for legal teams. The Alchemy platform succeeds the previous version of Merlin’s platform, which was called DiscoveryPartner, and introduces several […]

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ABA Tech Survey Finds Growing Adoption of AI in Legal Practice, with Efficiency Gains as Primary Driver

This post was originally published on this siteThere has been a significant increase in the adoption of artificial intelligence-based tools among law firms, with 30% of respondents now using AI technology compared to just 11% in 2023, according to the just-released 2024 edition of the American Bar Association’s Legal Technology Survey Report. It finds that […]

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Another New Study of Legal AI Shows Some Models Can Significantly Improve Work Quality and Efficiency

This post was originally published on this siteJust last week, I wrote about a first-of-its-kind benchmarking study of legal AI tools, and now comes another, much-different study, that is also the first of its kind. This time, in a randomized controlled trial, researchers have found that the latest generation of AI technologies can significantly enhance […]

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