LegalWeek 2025 was a wild ride that started and ended early for me this year. My thanks to everyone who managed to find my impromptu Sunday happy hour gathering. My Mon-Wed schedule was filled, so it spilled over to Sunday and we made the most of the time. Our industry is experiencing an unprecedented rate of change, a Shakubuku moment (alternative definition). Some players [...]
Legal technology seems to be riding the AI wave with exhibitors old and new investing in booths. My annual sponsor/exhibitor charts and the published Legal Week metrics reflect this uplift in technology and service providers eager to show off their AI-enhanced offerings. Not too long ago I was predicting a slow decline in conference attendance and exhibitors based on the steady consolidation and acquisition [...]
After around 30 years of LTNY (LegalWeek now), pre-conference activities and social events can tell you a lot about the industry and where companies are allocating their event budgets. Thanks to Stephanie Clerkin and Maria Victoria Yuste for building the social event list this year (I thought that Stephanie Wilkins also did this, but LI search is terrible). Almost all the networking events are [...]
The new Purview eDiscovery Hub UX has exited the 'preview' stage and is theoretically ready for actual use. The classic eDiscovery UX will be EoL in August 2025, so you have 5 months to adapt your workflows and test the new UX. Since November I and clients have been testing the new hub (when time allows). That testing has given me a much deeper [...]
Sooner or later someone was going to figure out how to conduct mature, AI-driven legal review without throwing the data 'over the M365 firewall'. Altorney's deep M365 and eDiscovery expertise seems to have enabled them to overcome the substantial obstacles to accomplish this feat. For regulated industries, government agencies and other customers with high security requirements, MARC may be the solution they have been [...]