AI & Machine Learning
Big Law Needs More Than Amateur Technologists
AI is reshaping law firms as an operating environment, not merely offering them another technology t…More →
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The Prompt That Thinks Before It Builds
A structured prompt invites would be app builders to think like product managers, turning vague requ…More →
Philosophy
The Law Firm as Medium: A McLuhanesque Examination of Artificial Intelligence and the Transformation of Legal Knowledge
Artificial intelligence is not simply another legal tool, it is a new medium. Drawing on Marshall Mc…More →
Knowledge Management
The System Beneath the System
AI doesn’t fail because of the technology—it fails because of poor knowledge systems. Fix the struct…More →
Steal This
Steal This: NDA Automated Web Application Framework
A simple NDA app framework outline prompt for Claude became working software, suggesting many legal …More →
Knowledge Management
The Hidden Complex System Behind Every Legal Matter
The modern law firm runs not on briefs or courtrooms but on matters--complex systems of people, docu…More →
Innovation
The Quicker Pencil: Liberate Product Managers
In large law firms, technology has traditionally arrived with the stately pace o…More →
Knowledge Management
The Hermes Desktop News Ticker: Information, Delivered With Discretion
Hermes News Ticker delivers headlines quietly and without interruption. A slim r…More →
AI & Machine Learning
I Built a Legal Tech News Aggregator in Six Hours
What happens when you combine product design instincts, a working knowledge of c…More →
Tuesday, 21 July 2026
General
Exclusive PI made easier for law firms
Miller has launched an exclusive professional indemnity (PI) insurance facility designed specifically for sole practitio…
AI & Machine Learning
Box Targets Legal With Agentic Control System
Box, which has evolved from a cloud storage business into an Intelligent Content Management (ICM) platform, is targeting…
Diffuse puffs of “missing” matter surround most galaxies
An MIT-led team used bright radio bursts to illuminate a vast source of matter that was previously unaccounted for.
Contract Technology
Walk Through: eBrevia – DraftPro, Contract AI
This week’s AL TV Product Walk Through is with eBrevia and takes a detailed look at DraftPro, part of its contract AI su…
AI & Machine Learning
AI Is Accelerating – Your DMS Will Determine Whether You Keep Pace
By Neil Araujo, CEO, iManage. In a relatively short span of time, it’s become increasingly clear that AI will have…
General
Andy Burnham and the Hillsborough Law: should solicitors be worried?
Now that Andy Burnham has become prime minister, the Public Office (Accountability) Bill, otherwise known as the Hillsbo…
Monday, 20 July 2026
General
Law firm in dock for running cases using “fraudulent” documents
A judge has expressed deep concern about how an East London law firm has run immigration cases, with multiple clients re…
General
Norris takes over as Lord Chancellor as Reeves becomes AG
A former trade union organiser with no legal background was yesterday named as the new Lord Chancellor and secretary of …
General
Government set to allow DBAs in opt-out collective actions
The government has proposed lifting the ban on the use of damages-based agreements to fund opt-out collective actions. T…
AI & Machine Learning
Law firms face enforcement action over misleading claims ads
The FCA has spotted 170 misleading car finance adverts as part of the on-going campaign against “poor practices” by CMCs…
Regulation & Compliance
Apple Defeats Liability for Not Scanning iCloud for CSAM, But the Judge Was Not Pleased–Amy v. Apple
This case involves Apple’s handling of user-uploaded files hosted in private iCloud storage. Instead of adopting PhotoDN…
AI & Machine Learning
Law Democratized: Renee Knake Jefferson on Her Blueprint for Solving the Justice Crisis
Martin Luther King famously said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” My g…
Sunday, 19 July 2026
AI & Machine Learning
Defending fair fees in the property profession
If the property industry is serious about moving towards 28-day exchanges, then it must confront not only the practical …
AI & Machine Learning
High Court throws out solicitor’s appeal against SDT decision
The High Court has thrown out a solicitor’s appeal against a decision of the SDT because she failed to provide grounds f…