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Today, Align launches Align Research, a new legal research tool designed to change the way AI works in the legal research process.

Most legal research tools work by trying to answer questions out of case data. Align Research focuses on providing you with the relevant cases only, arguing that the answers are prone to hallucinations, and often take away from a lawyer being able to craft a unique and compelling argument.

Joining us to discuss the launch is Founder and CEO Sam Davidoff.

Read the full press release on LawSites blog.

https://www.lawnext.com/2026/08/watch-align-launches-align-research-lawyers-get-cases-not-hallucinations.html

Chapters:

(00:00) Introduction to Align

(01:09) The gap in existing legal research products

(03:11) Providing the cases, not the answers

(06:09) Priced per project

(08:29) Explaining the workflow of Align Research

(12:27) What is the scope of the Align Research case law coverage?

(13:22) How is the Align Research designed to avoid hallucinations?

AI and the Future of Mediation Practice

https://feature.adr.org/2026-AAA-Suffolk-AI-Conference

In collaboration with Suffolk University Law School, this dynamic conference from the American Arbitration Association will explore how AI is transforming arbitration, mediation, and online dispute resolution. It will unite legal innovators, institutional leaders, and in-house counsel for interactive debates, live demonstrations, and real-world case studies as we explore AI's impact on dispute prevention, process integrity, and resolution outcomes.

Chapters

(00:00) Introduction to AI in Dispute Resolution

(01:56) Overview of the Upcoming Conference

(03:09) The Role of AI in Mediation and Arbitration

(07:20) Innovations in Family Mediation

(10:12) AI Governance and Ethical Considerations

(14:37) Practical Concerns in Family Mediation

(17:02) Adoption of AI Tools in Dispute Resolution

(19:12) Who Should Attend the Conference?

(22:39) Expanding the Conversation on AI in ADR

(24:59) Final Thoughts and Conference Highlights

Kenneth Pechous, Global Head, Business Development & Alliances at Litera, joins Bob Ambrogi to announce the launch of a new integration between Litera Compare and Google Workspace, bringing the power of Litera to your Google Drive.

Chapters:

(00:00) Introduction to Ken and Litera

(00:55) Announcing the Integration

(02:03) What is Litera Compare

(05:55) What parts of Google Workspace integrate with Litera Compare?

(06:48) What functionality does the new integration offer?

(08:49) Is Lido a part of this Integration?

(09:57) How does Gemini compare with Lido?

(12:54) Closing Thoughts

About the Announcement:

Litera announced a global integration of Litera Compare with Google Workspace, making its document comparison and redlining capabilities available to law firms and corporate legal teams using Google Drive. Purpose-built for legal complexity, Litera Compare delivers a 100% accuracy rate for tracking redlines across documents that grow longer, riskier, and more demanding in real legal practice. Corporate in-house counsel and law firms accessing Litera Compare through Google Workspace also have access to Lito, Litera's legal AI agent, included as part of their Litera Compare subscription, giving users AI-powered automation across the practice and business of law where they work.

"Legal teams shouldn't have to switch between the tools they use every day and the AI capabilities they need - and now, with our Google Workspace integration, they don't have to," said Kenneth Pechous, Global Head, Business Development & Alliances at Litera. "Corporate legal departments and law firms can now draft with the power of Litera's industry-leading legal expertise and institutional knowledge right where they already work. That means less time hunting for the right language, fewer costly errors, and no disruption to the way their teams already collaborate. We're proud to be working with Google Cloud to make that possible."

Through a new Litera connector, legal professionals can now point directly to Google Drive to access documents for redlining and comparison within Google Docs. Litera Compare, precision document comparison trusted by over 15,000 firms and legal departments for more than 30 years, is now available via the Google Workspace Marketplace, enabling seamless redlining, eliminating the context-switching that costs lawyers billable time. Legal teams struggle when AI can’t operate directly on documents stored in their systems of record, forcing manual workarounds that slow reviews and increase the risk of errors. Litera can accept documents from Google Drive as inputs for all available skills in the Litera One web platform. This means the full Lito capability set—chat-based comparison and summaries, risk and mitigation cues, multi-document chat, grid reviews, review terms, deal point insights, and prompt skills—works on Google-hosted documents regardless of the document type without requiring download or format conversion.

Compare surfaces changes between two or more documents, uncovering the evolution of text, tables, images, and more, across file types. Similar to Litera Compare's user experience in Word, Outlook and mobile, Compare delivers precisions through Google Workspace and then extends the workflow with Lito's summarization, risk analysis, mitigation suggestions, and clause rewrite suggestions. Together, Compare and Lito move law firms beyond static redlines to proactive, AI-powered legal workflows.

The core Litera project team, including Kenneth Pechous, Global Head, Business Development & Alliances, Joey Benedek, Senior Vice President of Product, and Ivan Martinez, Senior Product Manager, will be available at Google Cloud's booth at Google Cloud Next, April 22–24, 2026, in Las Vegas to discuss the integration and answer questions from legal teams and partners exploring Google Workspace-based legal AI solutions.

Learn more:

https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/litera-brings-trusted-ai-powered-document-comparison-to-google-workspace.html

This week, we're joined by Oddr Co-founder and CEO Milan Bobde, who presents some of the key findings from their Revenue Intelligence Benchmark report.

The report highlights a lack of AI usage in billing cycles, millions of dollars in law firm revenue leakage, and more. Read more about the report on LawNext PR:

https://www.lawnext.com/2026/04/oddr-releases-the-power-of-one-the-2026-revenue-intelligence-benchmark.html

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction to Oddr’s Revenue Intelligence Platform

01:37 The Power of One: Understanding the Report

05:25 Key Findings and Surprising Statistics

08:09 The Need for Revenue Intelligence

10:59 The Role of AI in Revenue Intelligence

13:37 Additional Insights: Revenue Leakage

15:02 Take-aways and Action-items for Law Firms

17:22 Oddr’s Approach to Reducing Revenue Loss

About Oddr:

Oddr is the legal industry’s first and only Revenue Intelligence platform, purpose-built to unify billing, collections, payments, and forecasting in a single, strategic invoice-to-cash system. Developed in collaboration with over 80 leading law firms across the Am Law 100, Am Law 200, and NLJ 500, Oddr delivers the tools firms need to accelerate revenue, reduce leakage, and make smarter financial decisions. Learn more at www.oddr.com.

Benchly and Servient announced at Legalweek 2026 the formation of legalgain, a joint venture that they believe is the beginning of "a new category of legal research."

Legalgain does this by focusing on consumption based pricing, and providing "outcome-first legal research," which replaces the search results delivered by traditional legal research tools to instead deliver the final product first, supported by fact checking tools.

Read the full announcement on LawNext PR:

https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/watch-benchly-and-servient-form-joint-venture-to-introduce-legalgain-the-first-ai-native-legal-research-platform.html

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to the founders

01:09 About legalgain and what makes it unique

02:33 A novel approach to legal research

05:18 Understanding the legalgain workflow

08:02 Accessibility of a Pay as You Go Business Model

11:02 Future of Legal Game and AI in Law

Today on LawNext PR, UniCourt Co-Founder and CEO Josh Blandi joins Bob Ambrogi to announce the launch of three new core features for DART, their Docket Analytics, Research, and Tracking platform launched in 2025.

The features announced today are the ability to search for judgements, judgement analytics, and attorney comparison analytics.

Learn about the new features in our interview:

00:00 Introduction to CEO and Co-founder Josh Blandi

00:48 Announcing the Addition of Three Core Features to DART

02:11 - Feature 1: Launching Ability to Search for Judgements

06:32 - Feature 2: Judgement Analytics

12:39 - Feature 3: Attorney Comparisons

16:56 Future Plans for Unicourt's Analytics

Today on LawNext PR, CaseMark CEO Scott Kveton joins Bob to announce the launch of Thurgood, a vibe coding platform that turns prototypes into production-grade legal technology.

Topics in this Interview:

00:00 Introduction to Thurgood and CaseMark

01:07 Vibe Coding in Legal Tech with Thurgood

04:23 Understanding how Thurgood Works

11:03 Examples of Thurgood Use Cases

13:11 Why Choose Thurgood Over General Platforms?

15:42 Getting Started with Thurgood

About the Announcement

Assembly Software announced last week the appointment of Jonah Paransky as Chief Executive Officer. Paransky succeeds Daniel Farrar, who transitions to Vice Chairman of the Board, continuing his strategic involvement with Assembly as the company scales its market leadership.

Chapters

00:00 Introducing Jonah Paransky

01:28 Jonah Paransky's Background and Experience

03:55 Paransky's Return to Legal Technology

06:17 What Aspects of Neos' Product Inspired your Return?

08:57 How Does Neos Distinguish Itself in the Plaintiff Software Space?

11:15 What are the Challenges you Foresee in the Industry as you Step Into This Role?

14:08 What are Your Initial Goals and Priorities for Assembly?

17:02 Closing Thoughts

About Assembly Software

Assembly Software is redefining how plaintiff law firms run their practice: combining AI-powered case management, workflow automation, and 40+ years of expertise to help firms handle more cases and win more for their clients. Its flagship platform, Neos, has been consistently recognized as a G2 Leader in Legal Case Management, with NeosAI winning the 2025 LegalTech Breakthrough Award for Generative AI Solution of the Year. Built on the legacy of pioneering plaintiff case management brands Needles and Trialworks, Assembly is trusted by thousands of firms daily.

LexSelect CEO Morgan Maguire joins Bob Ambrogi to discuss their new LexChat tool, an AI-powered platform that enables legal teams to reliably search, analyze, and extract insights across entire repositories of unstructured PDF documents.

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

00:42 About LexSelect

01:45 About LexChat AI Assistant

03:10 Differentiating LexChat from Other Tools

04:13 Understanding the Parsing Engine

06:31 What Impact will LexChat have for LexSelect users?

07:36 What are the Intended Use Cases in a Legal Practice

09:01 Scalability and Document Limits

10:15 Future Developments and Roadmap

12:14 Pricing and ROI

13:04 Future Integrations

About LexSelect:

LexSelect is an AI platform that transforms PDFs and other unstructured documents into structured, machine-readable data, powering both legal drafting and enterprise workflows. Its flagship product, LexChat, is an enterprise-ready assistant that enables users to query large sets of documents with natural language, delivering answers with full citations and direct source links to eliminate hallucinations and ensure trust. LexSelect also offers a document ingestion and QA solution that extracts structured metadata from PDFs, emails, and images, linking each value back to its source for seamless verification and integration into enterprise systems.

Read the announcement on LawSites blog

SimpleDocs today announced the acquisition of Law Insider, the world’s largest public contract and clause database and a trusted resource for millions of legal professionals. This transformative deal unites industry-leading legal AI with the most comprehensive source of contract precedent, setting a new standard for how lawyers draft, review, and negotiate agreements.

Joining us on LawNext PR to talk about the news is Chief Legal Officer Electra Japonas.

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

00:49 SimpleDocs Acquires Law Insider to Combine Data and AI

01:46 What does the Merge Mean for Customers and the Platform?

04:57 What do SimpleDocs and Law Insider do?

07:54 Impact on Current Customers

09:12 Standardization and Open Source Initiatives

11:15 Designing AI for Lawyers

13:14 Expanding Customer Base

Read more on LawSites blog:

https://www.lawnext.com/2025/09/watch-simpledocs-acquires-law-insider-to-lead-the-ai-contract-revolution.html