Try our Advanced Search for more refined results
The number of law firm reviews written by artificial intelligence has skyrocketed in recent years, a trend that could pose legal ethical challenges, according to one expert.
Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP said Monday that it has launched its own artificial intelligence assistant as a growing number of law firms are using the new technology to "augment" the way they deliver legal services.
For 25 years, the nonprofit Pro Bono Net has worked to utilize technology to aid pro bono litigants nationwide. On Monday, new executive director Zach Zarnow took the reins as executive director of the organization. Here, Zarnow shares the challenges and opportunities Pro Bono Net faces as it looks ahead to its next quarter century.
A legal technology company's first acquisition following a major capital raise tops this roundup of recent industry news.
The legal industry continued July with another busy week as attorneys took on new roles and firms expanded practices. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
Funding for legal technology companies surged 44% year-over-year to about $3.56 billion in the first half of 2025, thanks in part to general-purpose artificial intelligence platforms for lawyers.
A former teacher turned litigator turned e-discovery expert for Cozen O'Connor recently wrote the American Bar Association's book on handling electronic discovery. Nicole Marie Gill spoke to Law360 Pulse about the project and why learning the ropes of e-discovery is so important for early-career attorneys.
Miles & Stockbridge PC is adopting legal business management software from Atlanta-based Aderant to make processes like timekeeping and billing more efficient while providing generative artificial intelligence tools to its attorneys and staff, a move a firm leader said gives attorneys "information at their fingertips."
In a recent interview with Law360 Pulse, John Lee said the knowledge of how lawyers do their work is the biggest value he brings to his general counsel position at legal operations startup Ruli AI. When he speaks with his senior legal industry customers, Lee said he's able to share anecdotes from his own roles, acting as what he referred to as a lawyer-to-lawyer bridge.
UPDATED August 4, 2025 | Cyberattacks on law firms are rising at an alarming pace, compromising the personal, financial and health information that clients trust them to protect. Despite growing investments in cybersecurity, even the largest firms have struggled to respond quickly and transparently, with some taking months or even years to notify victims.
HelloPrenup, an online platform for creating prenuptial agreements, received a strategic investment from The LegalTech Fund on Thursday.
A Florida judge on Wednesday issued a blistering order against an attorney who became the latest of many to face sanctions over filings with case law suspected of being hallucinated by generative artificial intelligence, ordering him to take AI ethics courses and repay opposing counsel's fees.
Global firm Osborne Clarke LLP announced Wednesday the hiring of a former team lead at Wolters Kluwer Germany and director of business development at the IWW Institute for Knowledge in Business as chief of staff for the firm's artificial intelligence management board.
One of two attorneys leveling a class action against online legal service provider Avvo Inc. over allegations it misappropriated the identities of more than 1 million attorneys to promote its legal marketing tools and referral services has moved to drop her claims.
As corporate legal departments race to adopt artificial intelligence tools, a new survey reveals a growing divide between leaders and laggards that law firms are capitalizing on to their advantage.
You're not hallucinating — a tech-savvy U.S. Supreme Court advocate generated a near-facsimile of his voice, had an artificial intelligence chatbot use it to argue the same case he recently argued, and told Law360 on Tuesday that "many of its answers were as good or better than mine."
A Florida judicial ethics panel has said a judge in Broward County cannot escape ethics charges stemming from her 2024 election campaign, when she allegedly publicly shared a fabricated recording of a chief judge disparaging another judge.
Derek Smith, formerly an attorney at Airbnb and Palantir Technologies, has joined the genealogy website company Ancestry as its new chief legal officer, according to his posting on LinkedIn.
Two California judges were the first to deliver crucial rulings about what constitutes fair use in training generative artificial intelligence models — a question expected to test the boundaries of the copyright doctrine amid the emergence of the groundbreaking technology. Here is Law360's list of the biggest copyright decisions so far this year.
Czech-based law firm KPMG Legal announced Tuesday the appointment of a longtime attorney as head of legal for Central and Eastern Europe, with a focus on integrating legal services, building the firm's technology base and driving digital transformation of both clients services and internal operations.
Epiq expanded its class action administration services in the U.K. and Europe by acquiring the claims administration company Case Pilots, the legal technology and services provider announced Tuesday.
Pinsent Masons LLP said Monday that it will adopt the automated legal assistant Leah from contract management software provider ContractPod Technologies Ltd., aka ContractPodAi, for use in its managed legal services offering.
Georgia should begin pilot programs tailored to specific use cases of artificial intelligence across each class of court or jurisdiction, an ad hoc committee established by retired Chief Justice Michael P. Boggs said in a 48-page report studying the technology and its potential impact.
Two attorneys for MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell were sanctioned by a Colorado federal judge on Monday over a February brief containing nearly 30 "defective citations" after using artificial intelligence.
U.S. Legal Support, a Houston-based business that provides services to law firms, insurance carriers and other clients, announced Monday that it has acquired a company that will help it enhance its process serving, among other services.
Law firms need to shift their focus from solving the needs of their lawyers with siloed solutions to implementing collaboration technology, thereby enabling more seamless workflows and team experiences amid widespread embrace of hybrid and remote work models, says Kate Jasaitis at HBR Consulting.
Law firms looking to streamline matter management should consider tools that offer both employees and clients real-time access to documents, action items, task assignee information and more, overcoming many of the limitations of project communications via email, says Stephen Weyer at Stites & Harbison.
As more law firms develop their own legal services centers to serve as both a source of flexible personnel and technological innovation, they can further enhance the effectiveness by fostering a consistent and cohesive team and allowing for experimentation with new technologies from an established baseline, say attorneys at Hogan Lovells.
Neville Eisenberg and Mark Grayson at BCLP explain how they sped up contract execution for one client by replacing email with a centralized, digital tool for negotiations and review, and how the principles they adhered to can be helpful for other law firms looking to improve poorly managed contract management processes.
Many legal technology vendors now sell artificial intelligence and machine learning tools at a premium price tag, but law firms must take the time to properly evaluate them as not all offerings generate process efficiencies or even use the technologies advertised, says Steven Magnuson at Ballard Spahr.
Every lawyer can begin incorporating aspects of software development in their day-to-day practice with little to no changes in their existing tools or workflow, and legal organizations that take steps to encourage this exploration of programming can transform into tech incubators, says George Zalepa at Greenberg Traurig.
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.