On 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 directed The Tent Mender, about homelessness on […] read more

AffiniPay, 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 critical technological crossroads, with generative AI, financial […] read more

DeepJudge, 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 create custom AI applications via a low-code/no-code […] read more

At a time when some courts are still questioning or even banning the use of generative artificial intelligence, a recent decision from the District of Columbia Court of Appeals is notable for the fact that both the majority and dissenting opinions openly discussed their use of ChatGPT in their deliberations. The decision, issued Feb. 20 […] read more

The 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 architectural innovations aimed at redefining how legal […] read more

There 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 time savings and increased efficiency remain the […] read more

Just 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 both the quality and efficiency of legal […] read more

In yet another case involving the use — and misuse — of generative AI in legal research, a federal district court judge has declined to impose sanctions on an experienced attorney who submitted a brief containing miscited and misquoted cases generated by artificial intelligence. Although the attorney, Thad M. Guyer, acknowledged using gen AI tools […] read more

BriefCatch, a legal technology company whose Microsoft Word add-in helps legal professionals improve their writing, has unveiled two new features that use generative artificial intelligence to enhance legal document preparation: AI-driven Bluebook citation correction and a context-aware writing advisor. These features, introduced as part of BriefCatch’s release of version 4 of its software,  mark the […] read more

Are you still on the fence about whether generative artificial intelligence can do the work of human lawyers? If so, I urge you to read this new study. Published yesterday, this first-of-its-kind study evaluated the performance of four legal AI tools across seven core legal tasks. In many cases, it found, AI tools can perform […] read more