Practice Technology

Confronted with AI hallucinations in filings, one court shows ‘justifiable kindness,’ while another gets tough

Updated: Many federal courts are trying to teach lawyers a lesson for court filings with errors generated by artificial intelligence, but one recent case takes a kinder, gentler approach.

Aug 19, 2025 10:56 AM CDT

Second quarter was ‘unnaturally calm’ for law firms amid ‘tumultuous’ backdrop, new report says

Client preferences may be shifting to more specialized or cost-effective legal solutions, according to Thomson Reuters' Law Firm Financial Index.

Aug 12, 2025 10:27 AM CDT

How to maximize case management to empower modern litigation

Ari Kaplan recently spoke with Keao Caindec, the co-founder and CEO of Clarra, a case management platform.

Aug 8, 2025 9:34 AM CDT

In new partnership, LegalZoom offers users access to ChatGPT agent

LegalZoom’s users now have access to OpenAI’s ChatGPT agent, a new tool that can complete virtual tasks for them.

Aug 6, 2025 11:57 AM CDT

Artificial intelligence was front and center at the landmark 40th ABA Techshow

At the four-day ABA Techshow in Chicago in April, there was a record attendance of 2,118 individuals who heard from more than 80 scheduled speakers in a gigantic space full of incredibly eager vendors.

Aug 1, 2025 1:15 AM CDT

5 hallucinated cases lead federal judge to kick 3 Butler Snow lawyers off case

Three Butler Snow lawyers may no longer represent a former corrections commissioner in Alabama because they filed two motions with five “completely made up” case citations produced by ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence application, a federal judge ruled last week.

Jul 30, 2025 9:13 AM CDT

How generative artificial intelligence is affecting demand for legal services and need for ‘AI fluency’

Ari Kaplan recently spoke with Subroto Mukerji, the CEO of Integreon, an alternative legal and global managed services provider.

Jul 29, 2025 9:06 AM CDT

How agentic artificial intelligence could shake up the legal industry

What is agentic artificial intelligence? Find out what we can expect from it now and in the not-so-distant future.

Jul 16, 2025 10:00 AM CDT

ABA ethics opinion addresses jury selection discrimination from consultants and AI technology

When using peremptory challenges, lawyers should not strike jurors based on discrimination, according to an ethics opinion by the ABA’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility.

Jul 9, 2025 10:20 AM CDT

Worries about impact of AI switch from fear of job losses to concerns about professional development, report says

Twenty-four percent of legal and other professionals surveyed by Thomson Reuters are worried that overreliance on artificial intelligence will have a negative effect on professional development.

Jul 2, 2025 8:53 AM CDT

Hoping to mark huge leap into legal tech’s future, Clio buys startup vLex for $1B

Clio has purchased Spanish startup vLex for a whopping $1 billion. The combination of the Canadian software company Clio and vLex, a legal intelligence and global research platform, was announced Monday.

Jul 1, 2025 11:08 AM CDT

Legal tech company Clio, marketing provider Scorpion announce new partnership

Scorpion, a provider of legal marketing and tech solutions, announced Wednesday that it is partnering with Clio, the cloud-based practice management platform.

Jun 25, 2025 2:25 PM CDT

How legal ops teams are evolving and the tech trends driving change in an uncertain era

Ari Kaplan recently spoke with Will Seaton, the chief customer officer at DraftWise; Dan Wallace, the vice president of sales for the North American markets at Neota Logic; and Laura Wenzel, the global marketing and insights director at iManage.

Jun 24, 2025 9:24 AM CDT

Practice Area-Specific Tools: Immigration edition

Sometimes, when software is created for the legal profession, legal technology founders assume it’s a one-size-fits-all proposition. Law firms are law firms, right? Wrong. The reality is that business workflows can be very different from one practice area to the next. This variation is all the more significant when a firm focuses on a single area of law.

Jun 23, 2025 1:32 PM CDT

LexisNexis and Harvey team up to revolutionize legal research with artificial intelligence

Lawyers using the Harvey artificial intelligence platform will soon be able to tap into LexisNexis’ vast legal research capabilities.

Jun 18, 2025 10:30 AM CDT