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The CorporateLegal.tech editorial team writes practical, vendor-neutral guidance for General Counsel and legal operations leaders: what is changing in legal technology, what it means for in-house teams, and how to choose and adopt the tools that actually help.
About CorporateLegal.tech
CorporateLegal.tech is a neutral directory and resource for in-house legal departments. Our editorial team tracks what is happening in legal technology, from AI adoption and regulation to pricing and procurement, and turns it into practical guidance for General Counsel and legal operations leaders.
We publish four kinds of content: Articles on running a modern legal department, Problems and Solutions that connect common headaches to the technology built to fix them, Templates you can put to work right away, and Watercooler takes on the lighter side of legal tech.
Our goal is simple: help legal teams make confident, well-informed technology decisions without the vendor noise.
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Legal industry tradition dictates that at every conference, at least one panelist must declare the billable hour dead. It has been dead since roughly the invention of the fax machine. And yet, invoices keep arriving, itemized in six-minute increments, rates up again. AI might finally change that. Or it might just become the newest line in the obituary. Let's argue about it.
Surveys say nearly nine in ten general counsel now report AI use on their teams. Surveys do not say how much of that "use" is one attorney with a chatbot tab open next to Outlook. If your department's AI strategy fits in a bookmark bar, you're not alone. Here's how to tell, and what to do next.
Legal tech sales teams are, by and large, lovely people who genuinely want to help. They also speak a dialect that every legal ops professional eventually learns to translate. After years of demos, we've compiled the unofficial phrasebook. Share it with your team, laugh, and then ask the follow-up questions at the bottom.
This week brought reports that a legal AI startup is in talks to raise at a valuation around $8.5 billion. Meanwhile, somewhere in corporate America, a legal ops manager just got told "maybe next quarter" for a $12,000 intake tool. The money is clearly out there. It's just not in your cost center. Let's talk about it.
Another conference season has come and gone, and the legal tech industry has collectively agreed on a new favorite word. Last year everything was a "copilot." This year everything is "agentic." Your e-billing tool is agentic. Your DMS is agentic. The coffee cart was probably agentic. We made you a bingo card so next year you can at least win something.