You can never appease a tyrant.

“This country is rapidly moving toward an authoritarian form of society. In authoritarian countries—like Russia and Saudi Arabia—you do not have a media that is allowed to be critical of the government,” says Sen. Bernie Sanders, on how ABC paused Kimmel's show after the Trump FCC's threats.

Let me get this straight: A comedian should be taken off the air over a single sentence that the far right says was a "lie," but Fox News is free to tell all the lies it wants, as long as they favor Trump? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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 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...

@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...

Please take this important survey on how AI can impact A2J. We’re particularly looking for legal aid and nonprofit legal professionals to share their perspectives. Plus, for every response, @everlaw.bsky.social will donate $10 to @nlada.bsky.social. www.surveymonkey.com/r/5HWDTMM

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.

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

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

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...

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.

Looking to follow our evolving Constitutional Crisis? This list and two feeds are 🔥 right now: Folks working in/near law: bsky.app/profile/davi... Best of their law-focused talk: bsky.app/profile/davi... Best of their talk (all topics): bsky.app/profile/davi...

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...

@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...

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!!!

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.

Another case of hallucinated citations? Yep. But this time, the judge declined to impose sanctions on the lawyer, calling it an "honest mistake." www.lawnext.com/2025/03/fede...

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...

Breaking: KPMG gets approval as first of the Big Four licensed to practice law in the United States. www.lawnext.com/2025/02/brea...

❄️Today we're announcing the Winter '25 Release of Vincent #AI from vLex! With this release, Vincent is now multimodal, and we're adding the first AI workflow tools for Hong Kong, Italy, Peru, and Ecuador! @bobambrogi.bsky.social has an exclusive preview of the Winter '25 release here.

Exclusive: Legal intelligence company vLex releases a major upgrade to its Vincent AI, with new multimodal AI analysis, new litigation workflows, and new country coverage, giving it some of the most distinctive capabilities of any AI legal assistant. www.lawnext.com/2025/02/excl...

🗣 Breaking News: Gavel’s AI now supports 60 new languages to turn legal documents into repeatable processes! Thank you @bobambrogi.bsky.social for spotlighting this. Dorna Moini: “We’re dedicated to expanding access to justice by tearing down language barriers—one automated legal app at a time.”

Can an LLM be fine-tuned to write my blog posts for me, in my voice? My engineer son Matt Ambrogi tried it, with interesting results. Read his report here: www.mattambrogi.com/posts/fine-t...

We’re in the middle of an authoritarian takeover of the government. Yet Trump’s approval rating is pretty much at an all time high and now we’re all supposed to watch a blood sport while being fed Elon Musk ads. Surely there are better ways to spend a Sunday evening.

Which cloud law practice management software is right for a 4-lawyer firm? I asked OpenAI's new Deep Research tool to give me a report and recommendations. Here's what it produced: www.lawnext.com/2025/02/toda...

With the deadline Friday to pick the 15 legaltech startups for Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW, I catch up with the winner of the very first Startup Alley in 2017, Laurel, now a Series B company with $55M in venture funding. www.lawnext.com/2025/02/nine...

Just what can OpenAI's new Deep Research tool do? I asked it to research and analyze the legality of Trump's temporary pause of federal grant programs and outline potential legal remedies. In 10 minutes, it created a detailed 9,000 word legal memorandum. www.lawnext.com/2025/02/what...

Time is running out to pick your favorite #legaltech startup for a spot in Startup Alley at ABA Techshow. Deadline to vote is Feb. 7. Cast your ballot today! www.lawnext.com/2025/01/help...

Today, LexisNexis released its AI legal assistant Protégé to general availability, with features that reportedly include autonomous task completion and the ability to review its own work and identify areas where it can improve its output. www.lawnext.com/2025/01/lexi...

Donald Trump's sweeping pardons for those who carried out the attack on the Capitol were an act of infamy that made for a sad day for America. I argue that and more in my new piece in @theunpopulist.net. A short thread of excerpts: /1 www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-obs...

What were the biggest stories of the week in #legaltech? The best way to find out is to tune in to our regular Friday show Legaltech Week today at 3 p.m. ET. Our panel of legal tech journalists discuss and debate their picks for the top news. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

So, TikTok is supposedly a national security threat from China, but it seems odd that there's been almost no mainstream press coverage of Trump dismantling the board investigating the Salt Typhoon hack which is an ACTUAL PROVEN hack from China & incredibly damaging. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/23/t...

The @apnews.com Stylebook says the Gulf of Mexico is still the Gulf of Mexico but Denali is back to being Mount McKinley. www.ap.org/the-definiti...

I attended my first LSC ITC conference this week, and it reminds me of this post @bobambrogi.bsky.social wrote after ITC 2024: www.lawnext.com/2024/02/the-...

Seems to be a run of AI contract review companies enabling custom playbooks. I reported on two last week and now LegalOn is offering this in its platform. www.lawnext.com/2025/01/lega...

Kudos to our state of Washington whose Supreme Court issued a historic order authorizing a regulatory reform pilot program by which entities not owned by lawyers will be able to deliver legal services. ℅ @bobambrogi.bsky.social

Per Thomson Reuters and @georgetownlaw.bsky.social report, more fundamental changes will be needed as a result of the rapid spread of GenAI technology and the transformative effects it is likely to have on law firms. ℅ @bobambrogi.bsky.social www.lawnext.com/2025/01/repo...