Guest Post: Ken Crutchfield on 10 Reasons the Market Overreacted to Claude’s Legal Skills Announcement

by RG | Feb 5, 2026 | LawSite

When Anthropic announced legal skills inside its Cowork environment this week, shares of Thomson Reuters, Reed Elsevier, and Wolters Kluwer tanked. Investors appeared to price in a new competitive threat from Claude. But Ken Crutchfield believes the market got it...

Masters AI Taps Cat Casey to Anchor Its New Global Legal AI Conference Series and Learning Ecosystem

by RG | Feb 5, 2026 | LawSite

The Masters Conference, which just two months ago announced new leadership and plans to launch a new division, Masters AI Legal, today announced that it has partnered with Cat Casey, founder of The TechnoCat, a consulting and speaking practice focused on legal AI, and...

Anthropic’s Legal Plugin for Claude Cowork May Be the Opening Salvo In A Competition Between Foundation Models and Legal Tech Incumbents

by RG | Feb 3, 2026 | LawSite

To read today’s news, you’d think it was the shot heard ’round the world — or around the legal tech world, at least. “Legal software companies have suffered sharp declines in their share prices,” reports The Guardian. “Anthropic’s Move Into Legal, Data Services Sinks...

At the Legal Services Corporation’s Innovation Conference, Talk of ‘Radical Collaboration,’ Cutting-Edge AI, and Doing More with What You Have

by RG | Feb 2, 2026 | LawSite

In video remarks that opened the second day of the Legal Services Corporation’s annual Innovations in Technology Conference in San Antonio last week, Bridget Mary McCormack, president and CEO of the American Arbitration Association and former chief justice of the...

With Two Weeks Left to Vote, Here Are the Standings for ABA Techshow’s Startup Alley

by RG | Feb 2, 2026 | LawSite

With just two weeks left to pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the 10th-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW, below are the standings so far, ranked by total votes received. Remember, your votes determine the 15 companies that get the...

Guest Post: In the Second of His Three-Part Series, Ken Crutchfield Looks At Whether UPL Will Hit the Breaking Point in 2026

by RG | Jan 30, 2026 | LawSite

Where does all the pressure building in legal tech concentrate? On unauthorized practice of law (UPL), says Ken Crutchfield — and something’s got to give. In Part 1 of his series on “The New Physics of Legal Tech,” Crutchfield examined the macro forces shaping the...