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Litera Unveils GenAI-Powered Kira for Instant Contract Analysis

Legal IT Professionals

Litera, a global leader in legal technology solutions, continuing its weekly Road to ILTACON series of innovations, today unveiled a comprehensive end-to-end suite of GenAI services to be embedded directly within Kira, the legal industry’s trusted, proven, and future-ready choice for due diligence and contract review.

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The Future of Legal Practice: A Look Ahead from Masters Conference NYC 2025

CloudNine

Masters Conference: NYC, 2025 | Article by Rick Clark On July 22–23, 2025, The Masters Conference returned to New York City with a bold theme: “Welcome to the Masters 2035.” Hosted at the offices of Morgan Lewis, this two-day event gathered legal professionals, technologists, investigators, and industry thought leaders to explore how emerging technologies and workplace changes will reshape eDiscovery, investigations, and information governance over the next decade.

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Recurring Themes In Bob Ambrogi’s 30 Years of Legal Tech Reporting (A Guest Post By ChatGPT)

LawSites

[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.

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Top Law Firm Business Intelligence Software in 2025

Clio

Why your law firm needs business intelligence software Have you ever wondered whether your firm is truly profitable, or why some months are great while others fall flat? You’re not alone. Most law firms operate with surprisingly little insight into their own performance, despite creating mountains of valuable data. The ones that thrive know how to use that data effectively—and that’s exactly what business intelligence software delivers.

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No Objections: Better Case Management with AI for Paralegals

Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

Join this session to get a fresh look at how AI tools can help you work smarter, faster, and more effectively! Attorney and law professor Joe Stephens, J.D., will walk you through the complete journey of a legal case—from the first client meeting through the final outcome—while showing you how artificial intelligence can transform your daily work at each important step.

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AI Is Steadily Conquering The IP World – Survey

Artificial Lawyer

A new survey by Questel of over 500 professionals working in IP, at law firms and inhouse, has found that 58% use AI tools already, with 46% doing so every day.

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Mishcon de Reya rolls out Legora firmwide after successful pilot

Legal IT Professionals

Following a three-month pilot, Mishcon de Reya is now adopting Legora, a leading collaborative AI platform for lawyers, firmwide. Legora will be made available to all fee earners across all practice areas at the firm. The trial period revealed high usage among users, with a range of practice areas including Corporate, Real Estate, Private, and Innovation testing the platform.

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Austin-Based ChronoTracer Launches Legal Tech Platform to Automate Case Chronologies

LawSites

A legal technology startup, ChronoTracer, is making its official launch today with the rollout of a platform designed to automatically convert digital evidence into searchable, filterable chronologies for litigation and investigation teams.

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Best AI Tools for Legal Writing and Drafting

Clio

What is AI legal writing? AI legal writing tools are any tools that leverage AI to assist with both the creation of legal writing, and various tasks associated with it. AI legal writing can involve everything from using AI to streamline the creation of communications and templated pieces, to assisting with research or editing. Because the legal industry is bound by more laws and regulations than many other industries, AI legal writing isn’t as “fast and loose” as AI writing in other areas.

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How Law Firms Can Boost Profitability Through Automation: A Practical Guide

Lawmatics

At first glance, law firm profitability looks healthy: average U.S. firm revenue jumped 12.5 percent in 2024 on the back of aggressive rate increases. Yet under the hood, lawyers were actually less productive — worked‐hour productivity fell 2.4 percent in early 2025. That gap between rising top-line numbers and slipping efficiency signals a deeper problem.

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NetDocuments Announces New Partnerships with Legora and Harvey via its New ndConnect Partner Program

Legal IT Professionals

NetDocuments, the #1 trusted intelligent document management system (DMS) for legal professionals, is excited to announce new partnerships with Legora and Harvey through its innovative ndConnect partner program. ndConnect is NetDocuments’ new interoperability program designed to enable legal professionals to securely and seamlessly integrate third-party AI solutions into their NetDocuments environment.

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Leverage Trellis Court Data To Identify More Investment Opportunities

Finance teams find Trellis to be particularly effective in conducting comprehensive due diligence on both individuals and businesses. With our court data solution, financial experts can access critical litigation insights, making it an invaluable resource for informed decision-making in the financial sector.

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Ep 298: SpotDraft’s Shashank Bijapur: From Late-Night Due Diligence to Legal Tech Innovation

LawNext podcast

What happens when a Harvard-trained corporate lawyer, tired of copying and pasting contract language, starts reading about self-driving cars? In Shashank Bijapur's case, it sparked the creation of SpotDraft , a contract lifecycle management company that just raised $54 million in Series B funding and that counts major companies such as Airbnb among its customers.

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NetDocuments Launches ndConnect Integration Program and Partnerships with Harvey and Legora

LawSites

NetDocuments today announced ndConnect, a new interoperability program designed to integrate third-party AI solutions directly into its document management system, starting with partnerships with legal AI vendors Harvey and Legora.

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Delve Bags $32m For Agentic Compliance AI

Artificial Lawyer

Legal tech and compliance startup, Delve, has gained $32m in a Series A funding round led by Insight Partners – at a $300m valuation.

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Future-Proofing Law Firm Marketing: AI Optimization, SEO, and SGE Strategies for Maximum Online Visibility

Martindale-Avvo

Online search is changing, and your firm needs to stay up to speed to stay ahead. Fortunately, we’re here to keep you up to date on the latest in search engine optimization for lawyers and have tips for your strategy. The new landscape of digital marketing for Law Firms Before we launch into some actions you can take to advance your online marketing, let’s review a critical, recent change in search: the evolution of search engine optimization (SEO) and the emergence of search generative experien

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The Tech-Savvy Paralegals Playbook: How To Leverage AI

Speaker: Allison Mears, Adela Wekselblatt, and George Socha

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the legal industry, and paralegals are at the forefront of this transformation. As AI becomes more integrated into legal workflows, paralegals can streamline their daily tasks, enhance efficiency, and add greater value to their firms and organizations. But what exactly does AI mean for paralegals today—and how can you leverage it to your advantage?

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Litera One Evolves: New Tools to Streamline Drafting, Search, and Client Insight

Legal IT Professionals

Litera, a global leader in legal technology solutions, has announced the next phase of its ongoing Road to ILTACON innovation, introducing four new additions and numerous enhancements to Litera One —the legal sector’s first all-in-one, AI-powered platform fully integrated with Microsoft 365. Litera One is a Gold Microsoft Partner and has been widely adopted by leading Am Law 100, Am Law 200, and Fortune 500 firms around the world.

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Time to Rethink AI’s Role in Your Legal Practice

Legal Practice Intelligence

In July 2025, a federal judge fined the attorneys representing MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell $3,000 each, not for misconduct in court, but for relying on AI to draft legal filings.

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In Undisclosed Deal, Payroll Company PayChex Has Acquired Legal Tech Company SixFifty

LawSites

Although the deal has not been publicly announced by either company, LawSites has learned that the payroll and human resources company PayChex has acquired the legal technology company SixFifty, which in recent years has heavily focused on helping businesses automate employment law compliance and documentation.

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Litera Expands Kira With Added GenAI Features

Artificial Lawyer

Lots of news arriving on AL’s first day back from holiday…here’s a good one about an application that’s been at the heart of legal AI.

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Smarter Patent Family Research: The Tools And Tactics You Need Now

Speaker: Andrew Klein

Are there mysteries lurking in your family tree? 🕵 No, not a long-lost half-brother - I'm talking about a patent family tree! IP paralegals need fast and easy ways to verify and report on essential data about foreign equivalents of US assets. Join us to master the global scope of key assets to support prosecution, portfolio management, litigation, licensing, competitive monitoring and more!

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Don't Get Burned By AI: Best Practices in Plaintiff-Side Litigation

NSLT

In 2023, personal-injury attorney Steven Schwartz, his partner, and his firm were sanctioned after he submitted briefs in the case of Roberto Mata—who had been struck by a metal serving cart aboard a 2019 flight—that cited completely fictitious opinions generated by ChatGPT. Schwartz’s defense was that he “did not understand it was not a search engine, but a generative language-processing tool.

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Epiq Unveils Agentic AI Platform as Part of the Epiq Service Cloud

Legal IT Professionals

Epiq announced today a first-of-its-kind agentic AI platform for the legal industry combining proprietary Epiq technology, best-in-class third-party technology, and support from Epiq service professionals. In today’s disruptive environment, the legal industry is providing greater value at a pace never seen before.

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When Should You Abandon Your Patent?

Brett Trout

Brett Trout Inventors and companies often view patents as indispensable assets. They protect innovations, deter competitors, and can generate licensing revenue. Yet there comes a point when keeping every patent alive no longer makes financial or strategic sense. Knowing when to abandon a patent, and allowing it to lapse intentionally, can save money and refocus resources on innovations that matter.

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Introducing Spellbook Library: Contract AI that learns from your precedents

LawSites

Since launching Spellbook three years ago, and scaling to over 3,400 law firms and in-house legal teams as customers, we’ve heard one big piece of recurring feedback: “I want AI to sound more like me. I want it to understand my style and preferences.

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AI for Paralegals: Everything You Need to Know (and How to Use It Safely)

Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

Ready to cut through the AI hype and learn exactly how to use these tools in your legal work? Join this webinar to get practical guidance from attorney and AI legal expert, Joe Stephens, who understands what really matters for legal professionals! What You'll Learn: Evaluate AI Tools Like a Pro 🔍 Learn which tools are worth your time and how to spot potential security and ethics risks before they become problems.

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ChatGPT Has No Legal Privilege – Is This A Problem?

Artificial Lawyer

Last week, OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman said in a podcast that ChatGPT does not provide legal privilege or ‘legal confidentiality’ and ‘we haven’t figured that.

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Jury Psychology Meets Data: What Your Metadata Might Be Saying to a Jury Without You Knowing It

Nextpoint

Features Services Pricing Security Resources BLOG WEBINARS E-GUIDES CHECKLISTS CASE STUDIES EVENTS Sign In TALK TO AN EXPERT Jury Psychology Meets Data: What Your Metadata Might Be Saying to a Jury Without You Knowing It April J. Ferguson Home » Blog » Jury Psychology Meets Data: What Your Metadata Might Be Saying to a Jury Without You Knowing It Jury Psychology Meets Data: What Your Metadata Might Be Saying to a Jury Without You Knowing It Jury Psychology Meets Data: What Your Metadata Might Be

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Zylpha Report Finds 93% of Legal Professionals Prefer Digital Court Bundles

Legal IT Professionals

Zylpha, a leading provider of legal technology solutions, today released "The State of Bundling - 2025 Report," revealing that the changes made in May 2020 to electronic court bundles has been overwhelmingly successful, with 93% of legal professionals finding bundle creation easier than before the changes implemented.

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LegalOn Closes $50M Series E to Scale AI Development

Legal Practice Intelligence

LegalOn Technologies, a global leader in legal AI for contracting, has announced a $50 million Series E funding round, bringing its total funding to $200 million. The round was led.

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Prep with Purpose: How to Build Better Trial Binders

Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

Get ready to master the art and science of trial preparation organization that top attorneys rely on in this exclusive webinar! Attorney and law professor, Joe Stephens, J.D., will walk through proven systems for creating comprehensive trial notebooks and binders that transform scattered case materials into a powerful command center. Learning Objectives: Strategic Organization 📊 Learn the essential sections every trial notebook needs and how to structure them for maximum clarity and acce

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Streamline AI, Founded By Former DoorDash Lawyer, Closes New Funding Round To Automate In-House Workflows

LawSites

Streamline AI, a company founded in 2020 by a former DoorDash attorney to address the challenges she encountered in her legal work, today said it has closed an $8.6 million Series A round, to bring its total funding to $14 million.

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Spellbook Launches ‘Library’ – No More ‘It Reads Like ChatGPT’

Artificial Lawyer

Spellbook, a contract-focused startup that was early in the legal genAI journey, has launched Library, which targets the issue of AI that ‘doesn’t understand my.

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Revisiting copyright infringement in AI inputs and outputs

TechnoLlama

I’ve been busy in recent weeks writing my last project for the summer, a book chapter on AI and copyright for the next edition of Law, Policy and the Internet, edited by Lilian Edwards.

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Clio Duo Launches in Canada as the Trusted AI Partner for Legal Professionals

Legal IT Professionals

Clio, the global leader in legal technology, has officially launched Clio Duo in Canada. This marks a major step forward in the company’s vision to transform the legal experience for all—bringing powerful, purpose-built AI into the hands of legal professionals.

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Case Closed: How to Optimize Your Legal Intake Process for Efficiency

Speaker: Anne Post, CEO North America, Xakia Technologies

Do you know that 40% of U.S. Legal Departments now have a formal legal intake process? With that in mind, where does your legal department stand today? Many legal teams still struggle with a flood of incoming requests, leaving everyone overwhelmed and frustrated. Implementing a formal legal intake process can seem like an obstacle between the business and the legal department, but it doesn’t have to be!