Analysis

The last time legal research changed this dramatically, it was 1973, and Lexis had just let lawyers search full-text case law from a terminal instead of a card catalog. That was a genuinely civilizational shift. What's happening now might be bigger — or it might...

The marketing departments of legal tech vendors would have you believe that e-discovery was solved somewhere around 2023. Throw AI at the document review problem, watch the billable hours evaporate, close the laptop, go home. The reality inside actual litigation teams is considerably messier, more...

Law firms are the softest targets in professional services. You hold privileged communications, M&A deal terms, litigation strategy, and client financial data — and you're disproportionately staffed by people who believe clicking "unsubscribe" on a phishing email is fine. The American Bar Association's 2024 Legal...

The money has finally arrived in legal technology, and it didn't come from Silicon Valley. It came from Burford Capital, Omni Bridgeway, and the dozens of smaller litigation funders who discovered that deploying capital into meritorious lawsuits is not only profitable but scalable — especially...

Law firms have spent the last three years in a collective frenzy over generative AI. They've licensed Harvey, experimented with CoCounsel, and built internal GPT wrappers for contract review. And yet, most of those same firms are still running matters the way they did in...

AI contract tools are everywhere now, and the pitch is always the same: faster review, smarter redlines, better outcomes. Some of it is true. Most of it is oversold. The lawyers who are actually winning with these tools aren't the ones who adopted everything —...

For decades, the logic was simple: if your company had a serious legal problem, you hired a serious firm. That meant Cravath. It meant Skadden. It meant billing rates north of $1,500 an hour and associates billing for work partners would handle tomorrow. The prestige...

The paralegal who spends three hours summarizing a deposition transcript is already obsolete. So is the one who manually combs through 40,000 documents in discovery, flags contract renewal dates by hand, or builds a timeline from scratch by reading case files sequentially. These were real,...

The funding numbers look great on a slide deck. The reality of building inside them is considerably messier.