Features

The 56% Problem: Why Manual Document Tasks Are Holding Lawyers Back and What AI Can Do About It
A new generation of legal tech, including rapidly advancing AI and AI assistants, is introducing capabilities that don’t just automate individual steps. These tools act as proactive collaborators, intelligently navigating complex documents, surfacing key risks, applying context, and taking action. They’re helping legal teams move from manual to marvelous — and that transformation is happening faster than many realize.
Features

A Critical Leap Forward: How AI and Open-Source Intelligence Are Redefining Risk in Legal Operations
In today’s digital-first business environment, legal departments are confronting an unprecedented escalation of risk. Cyberattacks are growing more frequent and sophisticated. Regulatory complexity is expanding across jurisdictions. And the pressure to respond quickly — without compromising accuracy or trust — is mounting.
Features

Know Your Data: Why AI-Driven Information Governance Is Essential
The wave of cyberattacks and data breaches has turned information governance from a compliance afterthought into a required business function. Yet, despite well-publicized threats and skyrocketing costs associated with cyber incidents, most companies remain both underinsured and fundamentally underprepared.
Features

Improving Your Cybersecurity Today: 10 Must-Know Tips to Reduce Personal Risk
In the modern digital landscape, both personal and organizational cybersecurity are more critical than ever. This two-part series summarizes modern security practices as advised by the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s latest guidelines, a framework that prioritizes proactive, resilient and user-friendly strategies. Part one of the series offers 10 must-know tips for personal cybersecurity. Part Two will share 10 tips to take your firm/organization’s security from good to great.
Features

Make the Most Out of Your Networking Group
Congratulations! You’ve taken the first step and joined a networking group. Now what? Simply attending meetings and adding the membership to your LinkedIn profile isn’t enough — you need to actively engage to get real value from your involvement.
Features

Mental Health Survey: Improvement, But Pressure from Clients Rose Due to Rate Increases
While several data points from the ALM and Law.com Compass Mental Health Survey in the legal industry indicated that things have improved slightly, many lawyers sounded the alarm on added pressure from clients due to aggressive rate increases.
Features

AI and Open-Source Intelligence Are Redefining Risk In Legal Operations
AI and OSINT are not technologies of the future — they are reshaping legal operations today. The firms that embrace these tools strategically, with an eye toward governance, agility, and user adoption, will be positioned to lead. Those that delay will increasingly find themselves managing risk with outdated methods in an accelerated world. This is a defining moment for legal operations. The leap forward is here — and the opportunity is real.
Features

Understanding The Matrix: Mapping Your Firm’s Capabilities in a Complex Legal Landscape
The Matrix refers to a multidimensional framework that encompasses both internal firm capabilities and external client structures. It extends to understanding sophisticated corporate clients with their increasingly complex buying cycles, specialized legal service requirements, and evolving organizational structures. This dual-focused approach-mapping both your firm's capabilities and your clients' structures and need to those capabilities-provides the foundation for strategic business development and can exponentially increase your win rates.
Features

Divided Over Damages: Courts Split On Whether Failure to Mark Precludes All, or Only Some, Pre-Suit Damages
Only a few district courts have addressed the failure to mark in recent years — but they’ve reached directly opposing conclusions. This article analyzes the conflicting authorities and their reasoning, and it provides guidance to litigants on best practices given the conflict between district courts.
Features

Tea Leaves Tell Tales: Jury Awards $2.36 Million for Bigelow’s “Manufactured in the USA 100%” Label
On April 8, a California jury found that R.C. Bigelow, Inc., the well-known manufacturer of Bigelow teas, intentionally or recklessly misled consumers by claiming that some of its teabags were “Manufactured in the USA.” The price for this mislabeling was steep, with the jury awarding the class action plaintiffs $2.36 million.
Need Help?
- Prefer an IP authenticated environment? Request a transition or call 800-756-8993.
- Need other assistance? email Customer Service or call 1-877-256-2472.
MOST POPULAR STORIES
- CLE Shouldn't Be the Only Mandatory Training for AttorneysEach stage of an attorney's career offers opportunities for a curriculum that addresses both the individual's and the firm's need to drive success.Read More ›
- Discovery of Claim Construction and Infringement Analysis May be Compelled Prior to a Markman HearingA defendant in a patent infringement suit may, during discovery and prior to a <i>Markman</i> hearing, compel the plaintiff to produce claim charts, claim constructions, and element-by-element infringement analyses.Read More ›
- AI's Growing Impact On the Gaming IndustryThe gaming and wagering sector has begun to cross paths with artificial intelligence technology in ways both predictable and unforeseen. As with other industries, AI technology inevitably has found its way into various components of the gaming experience. What is striking, however, is how AI is revolutionizing gaming for operators, regulators, suppliers and patrons alike.Read More ›
- <b><i>Online Extra</b></i><br> Law Firms, Legal Departments Predicted to Focus More on IT RiskOverall global spending in the information security services and products sector will total $86.4 billion this year, an increase of 7% over last year.Read More ›
- Location, Location and Location (But Relocation?)Given the age-old maxim of retailers that what matters is 'Location, Location and Location,' it is often difficult for an in-line retail tenant to confront the fact that its landlord can require it to relocate its store to other space in a mall or shopping center. On the other hand, owners of malls and shopping centers must retain the right to expand, to add new anchors and to remerchandise their properties from time to time — thus, the 'Relocation' provision found in virtually all forms of in-line retail leases. This article explores the major issues that a relocation provision creates for a retail tenant and how some of those issues might be addressed in the lease.Read More ›