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Our Professionalism Spotlight series highlights Illinois legal professionals who demonstrate the ideals of professionalism in their careers.
In this Professionalism Spotlight, we spoke to Amrith Kaur Aakre, Chief Civil Rights Enforcer for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in the Midwest region. Amrith oversees all federal employment discrimination investigations and prosecutions across Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota,…
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You don’t have to look hard to find conflict in the world. It’s everywhere. Add to this the conflict that is inherent to the practice of law, and it’s no wonder that lawyers are stressed.
Spend a day in a courthouse, and you are likely to see litigants arguing, opposing counsel raising their voices at each other,…
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The final Legalweek keynote made the argument that law firms need to do what Apple and Netflix did in the early 2000s: blow up a their existing business model for a better one. Hard to argue with that. But it’s hard to see that it’s happening in legal.Here’s the data: only 19% of firms have modified fee arrangements aligned with…
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By Neil Cameron
I attended LegalWeek’s 2026 session ‘AI in the Courtroom: A Mock Argument on Generative AI for Document Review’ with considerable interest – and left with considerable concern. The mock judge ruled that GenAI review was defensible. The basis: validation statistics. Recall. Precision. The familiar numbers. With respect, that is precisely the problem.Advertisement
No court has yet issued…
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During the British Legal Technology Forum (BLTF) conference on 11 March, Legal IT Insider asked vendors, “What’s the hardest truth about AI ROI that firms aren’t ready to hear yet?”We got answers from Jylo, Wavenet, Novaplex, NetDocuments, Jigsaw, Trakti, & Elite. Spoiler alert: there is a heavy focus on cost-benefit analysis. You can listen to snapshots of those conversations below:…
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The Strategic Knowledge and Innovation Legal Leaders Summit (SKILLS) community has voted on their most recommended legal tech vendors, with DeepJudge once again coming out on top and Centari in second place.
SKILLS attendees from 106 large law firms rated how likely they were to recommend the legal tech vendors they interact with. SimplyAgree is up two places…
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I attended Legalweek’s annual judicial panel expecting the usual e-discovery update. What I heard instead was a sobering account of murder, death threats, swatting, and doxing directed at sitting federal judges and a stark warning about what it means for the rule of law and our profession. Four sitting federal judges spoke with remarkable candor and courage. We have a…
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This is the final installment in a three-part series examining the forces reshaping the legal industry. Part One and Part Two covered the macro dynamics of the AI industrial revolution and also the bending of UPL as consumers turn to AI products such as ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity for legal advice. Consumer behavior will lead, […]
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The dawn of the AI era isn’t just a technological shift; it is a profound economic and social disruption that requires a fundamental “rewiring” of the American workforce. At the recent SCSP AI+Education conference in Washington, D.C., a compelling panel titled “States, AI, and Workforce Competitiveness” brought together former Governors Eric Holcomb (Indiana) and Gina Raimondo (Rhode Island, also former…
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During the British Legal Technology Forum (BLTF) conference on 11 March, Legal IT Insider asked ten vendors, “What questions are your clients asking now that they weren’t asking last year?”
We got answers from Elite, NetDocuments, LexisNexis, Novaplex, Jigsaw, Jylo, Trakti, OneAdvanced, Wavenet & FileOps. There is a heavy focus on data and workflows and a ‘new hype’ around agentic…
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