legal technology

Tony McKenna’s reflections from Lawfront capture 2025 as the year generative AI moved from experiment to organizational imperative for many law firms — a year when Microsoft Copilot and specialist platforms such as Jylo shifted from pilots into daily workflows, and when firms began to wrestle...

Slaughter and May has moved decisively into the next phase of its legal‑tech programme by hiring Anthony Vigneron — currently Clifford Chance’s director of legal technology solutions — as the firm’s new head of innovation, a role that will see him lead AI and legal‑tech strategy from February...

Microsoft's Microsoft Store on Windows 11 has come a long way from its early, awkward days, but the recent Neowin critique that lists “five things Microsoft should improve” is a useful reminder that the Store still has important gaps to close if it wants to be a genuinely competitive app...

Shoosmiths has confirmed a landmark — and controversial — experiment in behaviour-led AI adoption: staff have been offered an extra £1 million into the firmwide bonus pool tied to a collective target of one million Microsoft Copilot prompts, and industry reporting indicates the firm reached that...

AllRize’s launch of AllRize 3.0 marks a deliberate push to make Microsoft’s Copilot-era productivity stack the backbone of modern law practice management, packaging CRM, matter management, document handling and accounting inside a single, Dynamics 365–native SaaS platform designed for mid‑sized...

The webinar replay from Legal IT Insider lays out a pragmatic, operationally focused answer to a pressing problem: Microsoft 365 is changing faster than many teams can safely manage, and law firms — with heightened regulatory, eDiscovery and confidentiality demands — are especially exposed. The...

Farrer & Co has moved from experimentation to institutionalisation: the London firm has appointed Oliver Jeffcott as Head of Innovation and AI (Counsel) and Rod Fripp as IT Director, formalising a strategy that treats artificial intelligence and legal technology as core business imperatives...

AllRize’s AI‑first practice management platform has been named “Practice Management Innovation of the Year” in the 6th annual LegalTech Breakthrough Awards, an acknowledgment that spotlights a Microsoft‑native, Copilot‑powered entrant that aims to consolidate CRM, matter management, document...

Latham & Watkins told its more than 400 first‑year associates in a mandatory two‑day “AI Academy” that artificial intelligence is not optional—it's now part of standard legal practice, and mastery of the tools will be a core expectation of modern lawyering. Background The training weekend in...

Infosys’ new AI Agent for energy operations is a purposeful step toward industrializing agentic AI across drilling, production and field operations — promising faster analysis of well logs, automated report generation, and predictive alerts while leaning on Infosys’ Topaz and Cobalt portfolios...

The upcoming IPWatchdog webinar on November 20, 2025, frames a question that has quietly become central to every patent shop and in‑house IP team: when should you reach for a general‑purpose AI like ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, and when does the task demand an IP‑specific AI trained and...

Generative AI is no longer a novelty for legal teams — it is an operational imperative that General Counsel must shepherd from curiosity to disciplined production use, and Law360’s five‑step playbook crystallizes the practical route: secure executive sponsorship and measurable targets, run...

Kiara Morris and Jett Potter — two early‑career lawyers at MinterEllison — are emblematic of a broader shift in law firms: juniors are using Microsoft Copilot and custom AI agents not just to speed up routine work, but to rehearse courtroom questions, shape partner‑level briefings, and earn...

AllRize’s new 2025 Legal Technology and AI Adoption Report exposes a striking gap: most U.S. law firms already run on Microsoft productivity tools, yet few have turned that foundation into a unified, secure platform for enterprise-grade AI and operational efficiency. Background The report—based...

A UK tax tribunal judge has openly acknowledged using generative AI to produce draft material for a published ruling—an explicit, carefully documented instance that crystallises the legal profession’s urgent debate over when, how and under what safeguards courts and tribunals should use tools...

Law firms that once greeted generative AI with skepticism are being won over not by flashy demos but by a pragmatic combination of clear governance, focused pilots, executive sponsorship, and internal “champions” who translate promise into defensible practice. Background The legal profession’s...

Litera’s selection to Microsoft’s 2025–2026 AI Business Solutions Inner Circle underscores a decisive moment in legal technology: a major legal‑tech vendor has won a place among Microsoft’s top AI partners, reinforcing a strategy that embeds AI where lawyers already work — inside Microsoft 365 —...

Virginia Briggs, chief executive of Australia’s MinterEllison, says she uses Microsoft 365 Copilot “for every task, every day,” and the firm’s experience — from boardroom demos to bespoke legal drafting tools — offers an early, high‑profile case study of what enterprise generative AI looks like...

Law firms are experimenting with artificial intelligence at a rapid clip, but according to recent reporting and industry surveys, widespread, fully governed production deployments remain the exception rather than the rule—a reality shaped less by technical immaturity than by ethical, regulatory...

Thai in‑house counsel and litigation teams face a 2025 inflection point: generative AI has moved from experimental “time‑saver” to a regulated, business‑critical toolset that must be evaluated for PDPA compliance, explainability, and defensibility before it is used on client matters. The Nucamp...