Bob Ambrogi

Recurring Themes In Bob Ambrogi’s 30 Years of Legal Tech Reporting (A Guest Post By ChatGPT) [Note: This year marks the 30th in which I've been tracking the development of legal tech — or at least that is the earliest evidence I can find of when I started regularly writing about the subject. ...

It's my 30th year covering legal tech. So I turned, naturally, to ChatGPT to sum up the recurring themes across all those years of following legal tech's evolution. What it generated surprised even me. www.lawnext.com/2025/07/recu...

A Conversation with CEO Jack Newton on Clio’s Acquisition of vLex Landmark news broke this morning that law practice management company Clio has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the AI and legal research company vLex for $1 billion in cash and stock. After m...

As a follow-up to my earlier post about the @goclio.bsky.social acquisition of vLex, I got a chance to sit down for a conversation about the deal with CEO Jack Newton. www.lawnext.com/2025/06/a-co...

That was pretty much my reaction.

In A Mega Deal, Clio Buys vLex for $1 Billion, Merging AI, Research and Practice Management In a landmark deal that will undoubtedly reshape the legal tech landscape, law practice management company Clio has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the AI and legal research company vLex for....

In a landmark $1B deal, @goclio.bsky.social has acquired global AI and legal research company vLex. www.lawnext.com/2025/06/in-a...

There were reports last year that Harvey wanted to buy vLex. At the time, I thought it would’ve made more sense the other way around. So this is an interesting pivot by Harvey.

Puerto Rico Allows Non-Lawyer Ownership of Law Firms I wrote yesterday about the Puerto Rico Supreme Court's adoption of the duty of technology competence, done as part of its promulgation of new rules of professional conduct to replace a code of ethics...

In major news for the legal profession, Puerto Rico's Supreme Court has adopted new rules allowing non-lawyer ownership of law firms. A dissenting justice said this could put lawyers' independent judgment at risk. www.lawnext.com/2025/06/puer...

Legal AI Platform Harvey To Get LexisNexis Content and Tech In New Partnership Between the Companies The generative AI legal startup Harvey has entered into a strategic alliance with LexisNexis Legal & Professional by which it will integrate LexisNexis' gen AI technology, primary law content, and...

The gen AI startup Harvey has entered into a partnership with
@lexisnexis.bsky.social by which it will integrated LN technology, primary law content, and Shepard's Citations within the Harvey platform. www.lawnext.com/2025/06/lega...

As LegalZoom Partners with Gen AI Company Perplexity to Provide Legal Services, I Ask Perplexity What It All Means In what is described as the first known partnership between a legal services provider and a major generative AI platform, LegalZoom and Perplexity have entered into an agreement by which Perplexity Pr...

What's @perplexityai.bsky.social have to say about its new partnership with @legalzoom.bsky.social? I asked it, and you can read its response in my post below. www.lawnext.com/2025/06/as-l...

At Aderant’s Momentum Global Conference, A Drive Towards AI-Enabled Cloud Innovation and ‘Unmatched Client Experience’ As he took the stage before the nearly 1,000 people assembled in the ballroom of the Omni Hotel in Dallas to open his company’s Momentum Global 2025 user conference May 20, Aderant President and CEO C...

At the Aderant Momentum Global conference, the momentum was towards AI-enabled cloud innovation and 'unmatched client experience.' I attended this user conference and here's my report. www.lawnext.com/2025/06/at-a...

Thomson Reuters Teases Upcoming Release of Agentic CoCounsel AI for Legal, Capable of Complex Workflows Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of the 'next gen' of its CoCounsel artificial intelligence platform, marking what the company describes as a fundamental shift from AI assistants that respon...

@thomsonreutersnews.bsky.social teases the "next gen" of agentic AI for legal, with its release today of the new CoCounsel for tax and accounting professionals, and a version for legal professionals coming this summer. www.lawnext.com/2025/06/thom...

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I've been saying for the last couple of years that AI adoption by law firms will drive down new lawyer hiring and create a mortal threat to the lawyer development pipeline. So it behooves me to alert you to data that points in exactly the opposite direction of what I've been predicting.

Record Law Grad Employment Rates Suggest AI Isn’t Killing Off Lawyers Just Yet At a time when legal doomsayers have been predicting the imminent replacement of junior associates by AI legal assistants, the law school graduating class of 2024 has delivered a contrary verdict: Hum...

Is AI killing off lawyers' jobs? The latest law grad employment report suggests otherwise, with a record number of grads and a record number of hires. www.lawnext.com/2025/04/reco...

Superstar panel — talking Access to Justice #A2J — at the @suffolklitlab.org #LITCon 2025!
- Bob Ambrogi @bobambrogi.bsky.social
- Sateesh Nori — Just-Tech — @theaugmentedlawyer.bsky.social
- Ben Jackson — Upsolve
- Nicole Bradick @nbradick.bsky.social

Marking Its 40th Anniversary In A New Venue, ABA Techshow Experiences Growing Pains “April is the cruellist month,” T.S. Eliot wrote in his classic poem, “The Waste Land,” and the same might have been said for the attendees navigating a waste land of a different sort last week – the....

As usual I think @bobambrogi.bsky.social has it right. McCormick Center is big, modern, and impressive...but most of all it's big. And the sheer size of the space made it harder to run into folks.

There are several LegalTech friends I didn't get to see even though we were both there. #ABATECHSHOW

Imagine being sued, evicted, or denied benefits - with no lawyer to help.

JUSTICE: JUST A PROMISE? is a documentary in the making, exposing the #SelfRepresentation crisis. JTA is proud to have helped shape the story.
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By Targeting Certain Law Firms, the President Is Threatening the Constitution Featuring Walter Olson, Mike Fox, and Caleb O. Brown

Listen: Trump’s targeting of law firms endangers the right to counsel and the Constitution . @foxmike90.bsky.social and I speak to @cob.bsky.social at the Cato Daily Podcast www.cato.org/multimedia/c...

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

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Entegrata Raises $4.5M To Further Its Mission To Transform Law Firm Data Analytics and Business Intelligence With $4.5 million in seed funding to date and the backing of several legal technology veterans, the legal technology company Entegrata aims to transform how law firms integrate and analyze data across...

Exclusive: Back by several legal tech veterans, Entegrata raises $4.5M to further its mission to transform law firm data analytics and business intelligence. www.lawnext.com/2025/03/ente...

Clio Plants Its Flag In Big Law Land with Acquisition of Enterprise Law Firm Software Provider ShareDo The motto of law practice management company Clio is to 'transform the legal experience for all.' But for many of its 17 years in business, that 'all' has focused primarily on smaller law firms and th...

@goclio.bsky.social plants a flag in Big Law land with acquisition of ShareDo, a U.K. company that provides cloud-based enterprise case and matter management software for large law firms. www.lawnext.com/2025/03/clio...

‘My Dear Miss Glory, the Robots Are Not People,’ Says Judge In Yet Another Hallucinations Case 'My dear Miss Glory, the Robots are not people. Mechanically they are more perfect than we are; they have an enormously developed intelligence, but they have no soul.' With that quote from R.U.R. (Ros...

This is the second hallucinated citations case I covered this week. The first lawyer got off the hook, but not this time, as the judge, citing a 1920 sci-fi play, said he outsourced his job to a soulless algorithm. www.lawnext.com/2025/03/my-d...

Interestingly, Trump’s plan to get taxes from oligarchs buying for golden passports comes right after pledging to purge comically old people paying into Social Security even though the latter (undocumented workers paying in & not taking out) put way more in than his plan will

The placards are some of the dumbest shit I’ve ever seen.

You’re IN CONGRESS… USE YOUR FUCKING WORDS!!!

No, 150-Year-Olds Aren’t Collecting Social Security Benefits Elon Musk claims to have found rampant fraud in the Social Security Administration. There’s a much simpler explanation.

We'll say it again: No, 150-year-olds are not collecting Social Security benefits. #SOTU www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

So suddenly he cares about the safety of police officers, after pardoning the Jan. 6 protesters who assaulted police officers??

The law doesn’t give a president this power. Trump is behaving as if he were a dictator. Let’s show him he’s not.

I liked my image!

Federal Judge in Virginia Declines To Sanction Lawyer Who Filed AI-Generated Erroneous Citations In yet another case involving the use — and misuse — of generative AI in legal research, a federal district court judge has declined to impose sanctions on an experienced attorney who submitted a brie...

Another case of hallucinated citations? Yep. But this time, the judge declined to impose sanctions on the lawyer, calling it an "honest mistake."
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BriefCatch ‘Conquers the Bluebook’ with AI-Powered Citation and Writing Tools In Its New Version 4 BriefCatch, a legal technology company whose Microsoft Word add-in helps legal professionals improve their writing, has unveiled two new features that use generative artificial intelligence to enhance...

For lawyers beleaguered by having to conform to Bluebook style, you'll be glad to know that BriefCatch has released a gen AI tool that does it for you. www.lawnext.com/2025/03/brie...