by RG | Feb 12, 2026 | above the law
Last week, legal tech stocks in companies like Thomson Reuters and RELX (Lexis’ parent) plummeted in response to Anthropic’s release of legal plug-ins for its AI product, Claude. According to TechCrunch, the plug-ins will handle specialized tasks like document...
by RG | Feb 12, 2026 | above the law
Well, this is how progress dies in Biglaw… with governmental posturing and a whole lot of institutional cowardice. Diversity Lab announced today that it’s pausing the Mansfield certification program, the widely adopted initiative designed to encourage law firms to...
by RG | Feb 12, 2026 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. This was a necessary step by LSAC—they had to shut off the superhighway of cheating that was occurring on remote tests. By taking this step, they drastically limit the theft of live LSAT content. This is great...
by RG | Feb 12, 2026 | above the law
The post In A Marriage Of Legal Editing Tools, BriefCatch Has Acquired WordRake And Its 12 Editing Patents appeared first on Above the Law.When it comes to standalone editing software for legal professionals, there have been basically three choices: BriefCatch,...
by RG | Feb 12, 2026 | above the law
One of the big worries in the age of AI is training younger lawyers, as I and others have discussed before. But a new LexisNexis study suggests we’ve been focusing on the wrong thing: the more critical training may need to be of experienced lawyers instead. Training...
by RG | Feb 12, 2026 | above the law
(Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)Anyone else stressed by the world around us? Punxsutawney Phil poked his head out, as he does every February 2, aka Groundhog Day, saw his shadow, and declared that we would have six more weeks of winter. Well, at least part of...
