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Perhaps this is the way the case will end, not with a bang but a whimper. With apologies to T. S. Eliot, that was my reaction when I read the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ assessment of the 6.5-year battle between legal information giant Thomson Reuters and once-fledgling startup ROSS Intelligence as “no more […]

Kirkland & Ellis made headlines again when it stated it will no longer disclose financial information to The American Lawyer magazine and other media after 2026. Firm leadership said financial disclosures could put too much focus on quantitative metrics over the quality and caliber of the firm’s legal services. Kirkland is in a category by […]

As a former lawyer, a legal technology CEO, and a paying client of five major law firms, I see how legal services are built, sold, and experienced. Recently, my wife and I sent three firms an RFP for personal legal work. One firm responded with a partner’s name, an associate’s name, an hourly rate, and […]

Relativity is holding firm on its plan to require that all new matters be hosted in the cloud beginning Jan. 1, 2028, CEO Phil Saunders said Thursday, and he had a blunt message for partners who are not on board: “Know we’re going to run through you.” Saunders made the comments during a media briefing […]

Five years ago, Noah Waisberg sold Kira Systems, the pioneering AI contract-analysis company he co-founded, to Litera. Even though the deal itself went well, the experience of going through the sale was hard, Waisberg now says. But that experience provided the fuel that turned into his next business. As part of the sale, he kept […]