Tracked Changes
What changed in legal AI each weekday, with a note on what it means for your firm and the source for every item.
- Clio brings its products under one login and adds a built-in phone system that logs calls as time
- Clio reports the largest one-year rise in billable time in its Legal Trends Report's history
- Nearly half of small firms bill purely by the hour, says 8am data from more than 60,000 firms
- AI hallucination case tracker reaches 2,262 decisions, with new U.S. rulings against lawyers in late October
- Everlaw announces Omni, an agentic investigation suite, plus no-cost review Workflows
- Legora raises $550 million at an $8.8 billion valuation and says in-house teams are over 40% of new customers
- Harvey buys Aida, its fifth acquisition this year, to help each firm build its own ontology
- Judge fines a lawyer $5,000 and orders him to notify the state bar after he filed his clients' ChatGPT-drafted brief
- Harvey makes its Connector Library generally available, linking it to the tools firms already use
- Harvey adds a connector to Midpage, an AI legal research platform
- Billables AI integrates with Filevine to capture time automatically for hourly and contingency firms
- Conseal launches a $29.99 a month desktop app that masks client data before it reaches AI tools
- Legal Hub Group offers a free AI check that flags common errors in California e-filings
- Federal judge takes no further action after a lawyer donated his fee and took AI ethics training over fake citations
- ILS launches Advocate, flat monthly e-discovery for plaintiff firms at $800 per matter
- Legora and Laurel partner to turn work done in Legora into draft time entries
- Steno opens a beta of Litigation Genius, an AI workspace for a case's full file
- Florida appeals court makes a lawyer and his clients jointly pay the other side's appeal fees over AI-fabricated cases
- Harvey releases a motion to dismiss workflow built with LexisNexis case law and Shepard's
- ROSS says it will ask the Supreme Court to review the Third Circuit's AI training ruling for Thomson Reuters
- Relativity says no new matters can go on its on-premises Server product from January 1, 2028
- Newsom signs SB 574, setting California rules for how lawyers and arbitrators use generative AI
- Clio buys Learned Hand, a maker of AI tools for judges and court staff
- Harvey adds agentic search across iManage, SharePoint and Google Drive
- California Supreme Court refers a firm's misquotation of its own precedent to the State Bar
- DISCO says pricing, not accuracy, is now the bigger barrier to legal AI adoption
- NetDocuments lists its plugin in OpenAI's library so ChatGPT can search firm documents under existing permissions
- Legora adds the American Law Institute's Restatements of the Law to its research platform
- Harvey's custom agents now run inside Word and return edits as tracked changes
- Legora rebuilds its legal research with an ontology of law and its own citator
- ILTA publishes its 2026 Legal Technology Survey, drawn from 508 law firms
- Eastern District of New York requires two lawyers to disclose a fake-citation sanction in filings for two years
- SDNY judge finds bad faith over ChatGPT-sourced misquotes and orders a $500 sanction and CLE
- New Mexico Supreme Court holds a lawyer in direct contempt over a ChatGPT brief with invented witnesses
- New York court dismisses a petition drafted with Spellbook and awards $15,000 in sanctions and fees
- Indiana federal court sanctions counsel $10,000 for eleven nonexistent case citations
- Harvey raises $550 million at a $15.5 billion valuation and buys AI agent security firm Guardrails AI
- California Supreme Court declines to review sanctions against a firm over false citations
- D.C. Court of Appeals strikes an appellee's brief citing four nonexistent cases and refers the lawyer
- Missouri appeals court orders $1,750 in fees after counsel cited two nonexistent or miscited cases
- Harvey and Everlaw plan an integration that lets litigators query Everlaw evidence from inside Harvey
- Thomson Reuters launches Thomson 1.0, its own legal LLM, first inside CoCounsel Legal's Tabular Analysis
- LexisNexis rolls out agentic drafting in Lexis+ with Protégé that turns one prompt into Word or Excel files
- Harvey and PacerPro connect court docket feeds to Harvey's litigation workflows
- Newcode raises a $13.5 million Series A for an AI platform that law firms configure themselves
- Minnesota lawyer agrees to a 30-day suspension after citing two AI-invented cases in a rent dispute
- Bloomberg Law unveils BLAW AI, a cited-answer research mode, plus matter Workspaces and AI agents
- NetDocuments adds Tabular Review for due diligence and a feature that links cited cases to CourtListener
- New York City Bar committee says the duty to verify AI-cited authority is personal and cannot be delegated
- Relativity previews claiR, a conversational AI for RelativityOne data, planned at no extra cost in 2027
- Harvey launches Harvey II, rebuilt around a Memory feature that learns how each lawyer works
- LexisNexis picks Document Drafter to run document automation on its 25,000-plus templates
- Federal judge in Washington fines a lawyer $3,000 for dozens of AI-generated fake citations
- Fulton County judge requires AI disclosure and a citation certification under penalty of perjury
- Legora agrees to buy Wexler, a litigation fact-finding startup, in its fifth deal of 2026
- Descrybe releases open-source tools so firms can build research workflows on its legal data
- Casetext alumni say their AI-native law firm, General Legal, has about 400 clients
- Iowa Supreme Court adopts rules for judges' use of AI, effective January 1, 2027
- Paxton AI lets attorneys at the same firm share litigation matters under their own logins
- Midpage adds statutes, regulations and agency guidance for all 50 states and federal law
- Microsoft's legal department, about 2,000 people, will use Harvey for legal and compliance work
- Arizona Court of Appeals holds that citing a hallucinated case is sanctionable, intended or not
- Briefpoint adds Discovery Playbooks that reuse a firm's past objections, at no extra cost
- Intapp makes Celeste, its AI agent for conflicts, intake and business development, generally available
- Litera relaunches around Lito, one AI agent for drafting, comparison and client development
- Percipient launches Certera.AI, a free site where lawyers compare AI models' answers blind
- Relativity buys Gavel, a document automation tool popular with solo and small firms
- BlackBoiler launches Veris contract review in Word, with a $1,250-a-year plan for solo reviewers
- Clio offers Florida Bar members four free months of Clio Work and pledges to train 25,000 people on AI
- Middle District of Pennsylvania suspends a lawyer for six months over fabricated AI citations
- Mississippi federal judge removes all four lawyers from a case after both sides filed unverifiable citations
- Billables AI raises $10.2 million for automatic time capture aimed at midsize law firms
- Smokeball's free trust accounting offer now covers members of 28 state bars, more than 900,000 lawyers
- Eve launches EveOS for plaintiff firms, with agents that make client calls and act on nightly case reviews
- Ninth Circuit suspends two lawyers for six months over fake AI citations and orders two years of AI disclosures
- Federal rules committee sends proposed Rule 707 on machine-generated evidence back for more study
- OpenAI hires Ironclad co-founder Jason Boehmig to lead its product work for the legal industry
- Wordsmith raises $70 million to help in-house legal teams handle more work without outside counsel
- Florida Supreme Court makes every filer represent that cited authorities exist, starting June 15
- Ohio appeals court dismisses a custody appeal after briefs cited nonexistent and misquoted authority
- Oklahoma Supreme Court publicly reprimands a lawyer over ChatGPT-fabricated citations in federal court motions
- Illinois State Bar Association gives members a free trial and 25% discount on SimpleDocs contract AI
- Alabama federal judge sanctions a solo lawyer who deleted his ChatGPT account after being told to produce it
- New York federal judge sanctions defense counsel who used a LexisNexis AI tool and filed a hallucinated citation
- Litera survey says 85% of law firms feel or expect client pressure on their AI strategy
- Litify adds AI time capture that drafts billing narratives for attorneys to approve
- California bar approves revised AI guidance for lawyers that now addresses agentic AI
- Clio says it has passed $500 million in annual recurring revenue and is growing profitably
- EvenUp offers personal injury firms a pre-litigation service run by its own staff and AI
- Thomson Reuters and ROSS file briefs on a new fair use ruling in their AI research tool appeal
- Microsoft previews a Legal Agent in Word that checks contracts against playbooks and redlines them
- Oregon's chief appeals judge says AI-fabricated filings are rising and orders staff to track the time they cost
- Legora adds $50 million from Atlassian, NVIDIA's fund and others, taking its Series D to $600 million
- Clio adds an SEC EDGAR research tool to Vincent covering more than 30 years of corporate filings
- Alabama Supreme Court dismisses an appeal over AI-fabricated citations and orders the lawyer to pay $17,200
- Clio Work is now sold on its own, without a Clio Manage subscription
- Legora buys Swedish legal research startup Qura and plans to bring its approach to the US
- Microsoft makes Copilot's agentic editing in Word, Excel and PowerPoint generally available
- New York courts adopt an AI rule that requires no disclosure but lets judges demand a no-fabrication certification
- SurePoint report says 63% of mid-sized firms have formally adopted generative AI, mostly Microsoft Copilot
- Harvey raises $200 million at an $11 billion valuation, co-led by GIC and Sequoia
- Relativity confidentially files for an IPO, which would be the first legal tech listing since 2021
- Oregon Court of Appeals sanctions a lawyer $10,000 for 15 fabricated citations found through web searches
- Sixth Circuit fines two lawyers $15,000 each over fake and misrepresented citations in appellate briefs
- California bar committee proposes AI amendments to six Rules of Professional Conduct for public comment
- Legion, an AI platform for California litigators, adds a builder for motions and oppositions
- 8am survey finds 42% of legal professionals use legal-specific AI, double last year's share
- LexisNexis says hackers reached a limited number of servers holding mostly pre-2020 customer data
- August adds Live Assist, which flags statements in a live conversation that conflict with uploaded records
- Spellbook takes $40 million in debt financing from RBCx to fund acquisitions
- American Arbitration Association launches a Resolution Simulator for nonbinding AI-generated outcomes
- LexisNexis makes Lexis+ with Protégé generally available in the U.S., replacing Lexis+ AI
- Thomson Reuters says one million professionals can now use CoCounsel, but won't say how many are lawyers
- Confido Legal discloses $9 million raised to expand law firm payments and disbursements
- Draftwise launches Playbook Studio, which it says builds a contract playbook from a team's own deals
- Fifth Circuit fines a lawyer $2,500 for an AI-drafted reply brief and a misleading response to the court
- Oklahoma's Court of Criminal Appeals adopts a rule requiring a person to verify AI-drafted content in filings
- 8am turns LawPay into a financial management platform with billing, trust accounting and an expense card
- AltaClaro and Verbit launch DepoSim, an AI deposition simulator with a voiced witness and opposing counsel
- District of Kansas issues a court-wide order warning that unverified AI-assisted filings can be struck or sanctioned
- Eastern District of Pennsylvania judge sanctions two lawyers differently for one brief with AI-generated citation errors
- EvenUp launches AI voice and text agents for routine personal injury case calls
- Orbital raises a $60 million Series B to expand its real estate legal AI in the U.S.
- Ask iManage now answers plain-language questions across the whole document system at no extra cost
- California Supreme Court orders a sanctions inquiry into a district attorney's brief with alleged AI errors
- Filevine announces it acquired Pincites and will turn it into LOIS for Word for drafting and redlining
- Alexi counters Fastcase's lawsuit by claiming Clio's $1 billion vLex deal breaks antitrust law
- Contract review platform Ivo raises a $55 million Series B led by Blackbird
- Litera releases an iOS app that brings its Lito AI agent and document comparison to iPhone and iPad
- Law firms raised technology spending 9.7%, says the Thomson Reuters and Georgetown legal market report
- Harvey says it is building Memory, a feature that carries matter context from one session to the next
- Clio launches Vincent Studio, a no-code workflow builder for large firms and enterprise legal teams
- Relativity makes aiR for Case Strategy generally available to pull cited facts and chronologies from case documents
- Microsoft hires former Robin AI engineers for its Word team and says it has no plans to buy the company
- AlphaLit raises a $3.2 million seed round for voice AI that screens plaintiffs and routes cases to lawyers