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Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Contract Corner: Fast Fixes for Streamlining Your Contracts

Legal departments and contract teams are now often under pressure to move faster, provide value, and streamline processes all while contracts increase in length and complexity to address changes in technology (e.g.,...more

Best Era

Private Equity: PI Lawyers Are the Canary. Big Law Is the Coal Mine.

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Personal injury lawyers in Louisiana just became the canary in your coal mine. Last week, Dudley DeBosier finalized a private equity deal using a Managed Service Organization structure....more

Purpose Legal

From Curiosity to Confidence: What Real AI Adoption Looks Like in Legal Work

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Most legal teams do not struggle to try AI. They struggle to operationalize success. Early last year, a long-time client made an offhand comment that stuck with me: “I know generative AI. I’m just hoping to retire...more

DarrowEverett LLP

Attorney-Client Privilege and AI: What Florida Attorneys Must Know

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As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in legal workflows, managing partners and in-house legal leaders must confront a critical threshold issue: whether legal advice created with the assistance of AI is...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

The eDiscovery Reset: How AI Will Transform Solutions and Business Models

The eDiscovery landscape is approaching a fundamental reset. Driven by a massive influx of venture capital and the maturation of Generative AI (GenAI), the industry is moving toward a transformation that will reshape market...more

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What We Learned from 2025: 6 Trends That Changed Discovery

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In 2025, discovery became faster, more strategic, and more complex. From AI-driven review and hybrid workflows to expanding data volumes and cross-border challenges, these six trends reshaped how legal teams approach...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

[Podcast] Breakthrough Minds Episode 5: A Conversation with Annie Datesh

In this episode, Wilson Sonsini’s Chief Innovation Officer, Annie Datesh, joins host Raj Mahapatra to discuss the intersection of neuroscience, law, and artificial intelligence (AI), exploring how innovative legal technology...more

Integreon

Beyond Formatting: How Technology and AI Are Transforming Legal Word Processing

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For many law firms, legal word processing is both mission-critical and chronically under-optimized. Briefs, motions, agreements, and complex templates must be produced quickly, flawlessly, and in strict adherence to firm and...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

Five Reasons Why Your Best Document Reviewer Isn’t Human Anymore

A year ago, skeptics questioned whether AI could reliably review documents. Today, those skeptics are watching others finish reviews in weeks instead of months at a fraction of the cost. Contract reviewers who were fully...more

IR Global

Matter-Aware AI for Lawyers: What It Is and Why It Matters

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Lawyers spend nearly one-fifth of their working hours on legal research, according to the ABA. That’s one full day every week. 52 days a year. And it’s not just the searching that consumes time, it’s everything around it:...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

Illumination Zone: Episode 221 | Jenny Hamilton, CLO of Exterro, sits down with Mary Mack and Holley Robinson

Jenny Hamilton, Chief Legal Officer of EDRM Trusted Partner Exterro, sits down with EDRM’s Mary Mack and Holley Robinson. In this episode, Jenny talks about her journey from private practice to corporate to in-house at a...more

Integreon

How to Get the Most from Agentic AI for In-House Legal Teams: Quality Over Quantity

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Agentic AI is here for in-house legal teams. In simplest terms, it’s the latest evolution of AI and moves beyond behind the scenes passive assistance to action-oriented agents that once created can operate for you to plan,...more

LawVision

What Makes a Law Firm Business Development Plan Effective?

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A well-respected law firm CMO asked me recently: “What makes an effective business development plan for a lawyer?” At first blush, that seems like a simple question, but the more I thought about it, the less simple it became....more

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Practice Group Leadership in 2026: How to Lead When the Market is Booming — and the Ground is Shifting

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Based on Thomson Reuters Institute, 2026 Report on the State of the US Legal Market: “Peak prosperity and the fault lines below.” If you’re a Practice Group Leader in a law firm, you’re leading in a moment of contradiction....more

Best Era

The Legal Profession Is Choosing Irrelevance

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The legal profession is obsessed with the wrong questions about AI. Every conference, every CLE, every firm retreat features the same hand-wringing: Which AI tool should we buy? How do we bill for AI-assisted work? Will...more

Hanzo

Pulse check 2026: How Legal Professionals Tackle Collaboration Data at Scale

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Most organizations now operate across multiple collaboration platforms at the same time. Recent technology adoption data shows that Microsoft Teams remains the most prevalent internal collaboration platform, but it is rarely...more

IR Global

How to Reduce Cognitive Overload in Lawyers

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On its own, cognitive overload in lawyers may seem to be an inalienable part of working in a law firm. But when examined more closely, cognitive overload should be a cause for concern for both lawyers and their law firms....more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Legal AI in Practice: Firm Governance, Build vs. Buy Decisions, and Vendor Due Diligence — The Good Bot Podcast

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In this episode of The Good Bot, Brett Mason sits down with Leigh Zeiser, director of AI and automation at Troutman Pepper Locke, to unpack how the firm operationalizes AI responsibly. They discuss the firm's AI portfolio —...more

TransPerfect Legal

Inside the Mind of Corporate Counsel: Winning eDiscovery and Investigation Strategies

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How today’s in-house legal leaders are rethinking discovery, information governance, and collaboration in a data-driven world- The modern corporate legal department is navigating unprecedented complexity. Data volumes are...more

Goodell, DeVries, Leech & Dann, LLP

Start the New Year Right

Most of us have a process for closing out the old year and starting the new one. It’s natural to turn the page when starting a new year because it matches our biorhythms. Originally Published in The Daily Record - January...more

IR Global

Clio in 2025: A New Era for Legal Work

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2025 was the year that legal work became connected. As AI moved from novelty to necessity in most industries, Clio led the technological shift in the legal space, defining a new era of innovation and collaboration....more

Lighthouse

[Webinar] What's Next in Legal Intelligence - January 21st, 12:00 pm ET

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Turning Data into Strategic Intelligence with Lighthouse - Since 2019, Lighthouse has been driving real, measurable change in how legal teams discover insights and make decisions with defensible, human-centered AI....more

Cimplifi

Empowering Communities Through Legal Data Intelligence: A Reflection from Relativity Fest

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Attending Relativity Fest this year was more than just a professional milestone, it was a highly rewarding personal experience, as I was invited to share my insights on access to justice, a topic that I find extremely...more

Purpose Legal

The Engineering Edge: How Service Providers Quietly Reshape Legal Tech from Within

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When people think of eDiscovery service providers, they often picture hosting platforms, review teams, and production workflows—not software engineering. Yet behind the scenes, many service providers like Purpose Legal...more

DLA Piper

Managed Services Organizations vs. Alternative Business Structures: Two models for outside investment in law firms

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In recent years, investors have shown substantial interest in investing in private professional practices. These practices – such as medical, dental, veterinary, accounting, and legal – typically have consistent and...more

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