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AI-Powered Legal Ops Is Starting To Pay Off On Deals
A new study supports what some legal industry experts have been saying for months — an AI-driven legal operating model is taking over the contract management industry and has begun giving companies a real return on their investment.
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Legal Ops Teams Grapple With Slew Of 'AI Native' Firms
The growing number of law firms pitching themselves as "AI native" is generating feelings of artificial intelligence fatigue inside corporate legal departments, as legal operations experts say the term is becoming diluted amid the rush to cash in on the AI boom.
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Cannabis Co. Can't Shift Atty AI Sanctions To Rival Company
A Florida federal judge will not force a medical marijuana company to accept liability for sanctions incurred by its in-house counsel over the misuse of generative artificial intelligence, rejecting a rival company's arguments that the lawyer previously avoided monetary sanctions for filing errors and was likely to do so again.
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Axinn Hires Chief Innovation Officer From Proskauer
Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP announced Monday the hiring of Rachael Philbin, previously at Proskauer Rose LLP, as its chief innovation officer out of New York City.
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Oregon Lawyer Ordered To Pay Attorney Fees For Use Of AI
An Oregon attorney was sanctioned by a state appellate court for filing a brief containing a fabricated list of authorities because she used generative artificial intelligence, marking the first case in the jurisdiction to present the option of awarding attorney fees as a sanction as opposed to fines payable to the court.
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Legal Tech Roundup: Freshfields Partners With Anthropic
A BigLaw firm partnering with a leading developer of generative artificial intelligence models tops this week's news. Other developments include another partnership and a legal tech company establishing an entity in Singapore. Here's a roundup of the week's biggest legal tech news.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another action-packed week as BigLaw firms shifted leadership roles and new figures revealed lateral hiring trends. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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How A Growing Midsize Law Firm Is Evaluating AI Tools
Columbus, Ohio-based midsize law firm Perez Morris hired Nick Morrison as director of artificial intelligence and technology strategy in January to evaluate and roll out AI tools. Four months later, here is where Perez Morris is at in the process.
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Private Equity MSO Deals Heating Up In Legal Industry
Private equity is driving a surge in managed services organization deals with U.S. law firms, with the focus on consumer-facing practices like personal injury for now and the potential to one day reshape how even BigLaw firms do business.
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Conn.'s Proposed AI Rule Not A Shock To Attys
For Connecticut attorneys, a recently proposed rule that would put attorneys at risk of sanctions for erroneous citations created by artificial intelligence doesn't come as a shock, but is viewed as a natural progression of existing obligations to verify research and ensure the accuracy of court filings.
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LegalZoom CLO Saw Comp Plunge Nearly $14M In 2025
The chief legal officer of LegalZoom.com Inc. earned about $887,000 in total compensation in 2025, a steep drop from the $14.8 million she earned the prior year, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
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ClearyX CEO Talks New AI Contract, Due Diligence Tools
Carla Swansburg, the head of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP’s legal technology incubator ClearyX, talks with Law360 Pulse about the subsidiary’s progress and latest AI products.
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Legora Snaps Up Legal Startup Qura To Expand AI Reach
Legora said Thursday that it has acquired Stockholm-based legal startup Qura, which the company expects will strengthen its artificial intelligence research capabilities as competition grows for the emerging tech.
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DoorDash Alum Built Streamline AI To Fix Legal Dept. Chaos
After Kathy Zhu created the legal operations department at DoorDash in 2019, she tested generic tools, contract lifecycle management systems and other legal-specific products. But nothing solved her real pain points: managing the chaos of hundreds of requests while maintaining visibility into her legal team's workload.
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Law Firms Form Global Legal Tech Alliance
Several international law firms, including Hogan Lovells, have formed a global legal tech alliance to foster innovation and collaboration, Law360 Pulse confirmed Wednesday.
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Eversheds Sutherland Adds Ex-Epiq AI Leader
Eversheds Sutherland has hired a former managed solutions and artificial intelligence leader at legal technology and services provider Epiq to serve as U.S. head of legal managed services at Konexo, the firm's alternative legal services provider in the U.S.
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Law Firm Pricing Progress May Lag Tech Advancement
A new report reveals what appears to be a lag between technological advances in the legal industry with the advent of artificial intelligence and the transformation of how law firms price their work to drive profitability.
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Morgan Lewis Hires New CIO From Dechert
Morgan Lewis has hired a new chief information officer with 15 years of leadership experience at major law firms to strengthen its technology and cybersecurity capacities.
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Norm Law Taps Ex-Sidley Partner To Lead Real Estate Team
AI-native law firm Norm Law LLP has hired Sidley Austin's former global head of real estate to lead its real estate practice as a partner, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Arizona's Law Firm Experiment Faces Conflict Question
Advocates for Arizona’s novel alternative business structure program, which allows for non-attorney ownership of law firms, say that firsthand experience with an ABS can provide critical insight on how best to regulate them. However, a pattern of recusals and a recent lawsuit suggest a much messier story about some committee members’ entanglements with the new ABS market.
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Sullivan & Cromwell Alerts SDNY To AI Errors In Ch. 15 Case
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP told a New York bankruptcy judge Saturday that an emergency motion it filed in Prince Global Holdings Ltd.'s Chapter 15 case contained several inaccurate citations and other errors, including what the firm described as artificial intelligence "hallucinations."
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LexisNexis Announces Alliance With AI Co. Luminance
LexisNexis Legal & Professional announced on Tuesday a strategic alliance with Luminance Technologies Ltd., a U.K. software company producing artificial intelligence tools for enterprise legal teams working primarily on contracts.
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Legal Tech Co. Sued Over Immigration Software Breach
Legal professional services software firm 8am LLC, owner of MyCase and formerly known as AffiniPay, has been sued in Texas federal court over a data breach exposing sensitive data of more than 100,000 people in the DocketWise immigration case management platform.
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Pa. Atty Sanctioned Over Bogus Citations
A Pennsylvania federal judge said she was "appalled" by a lawyer's repeated use of bogus citations in court documents generated with artificial intelligence and has ordered a $5,000 sanction and additional classes in AI ethics for the attorney.
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DocuSign Legal Chief Stays Steady With $7 Million In Comp
DocuSign Inc.'s legal leader saw his compensation remain roughly the same in fiscal year 2026 compared to the previous year, bringing home nearly $7 million compared to just over $7 million in fiscal year 2025, a recent securities filing shows.
Expert Analysis
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Law Firm Tips For Evaluating AI And Machine Learning Tools
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.
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Learning How To Code Can Unleash New Potential In Lawyers
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.
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The Importance Of Client Engagement In Law Firm Innovation
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.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
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.