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The CorporateLegal.tech AI 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.
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CorporateLegal.tech is a neutral directory and resource for in-house legal departments. Our editorial team uses AI and 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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August is supposed to be quiet. Not this year. The EU's AI transparency rules went live, the big legal vendors started training their own models, Google joined the legal AI race, and ILTACON drew a record crowd that left one veteran observer asking whether we'd hit peak legal tech. Here's what happened, with hindsight.
July was the month legal AI's economics showed up on the bill. Usage exploded, vendors started rethinking how they charge, and clients started asking who gets the savings. It was also the month the agent conversation turned from what agents can do to how you stop them doing the wrong thing. Here's the recap, with a few months of hindsight.
June delivered a lesson most legal teams hadn't planned for: the AI model behind your tools can be switched off overnight, for everyone, by a government letter. It was also the month courts split on whether executives' AI chats are discoverable, and the month AI-citation sanctions graduated from fines to suspensions. Here's the recap, with hindsight.
If April was the month AI moved into Word, May was the month it came looking for in-house legal specifically. A frontier AI company shipped plugins named after in-house practice areas, every major vendor rebranded its assistant as an agent, and the two scariest AI compliance deadlines both moved. Here's what happened, and what it means now.
April was the month legal AI stopped living in a separate browser tab and moved into the software lawyers actually open every morning: Microsoft Word. It was also the month an elite law firm apologized to a federal judge for AI-hallucinated citations, and the month two big AI regulations looked set in stone right up until they didn't. Here's what happened, and what it looks like now.