ACC's Corporate Counsel Now (July 30) published research on in-house legal team data infrastructure readiness for AI, finding significant gaps: outside counsel spend is tracked by 83% of teams, but time to resolution is tracked by only 28%, outside counsel performance by only 12%, and impact on business outcomes by only 9%. Top barriers to metrics tracking are lack of time or resources (57%), data
LinkedIn commentary (July 31, citing ACC/Everlaw joint survey) found 59% of in-house counsel report seeing no noticeable savings from their outside counsel's use of AI. Of the minority who saw any benefit, only 13% pointed to fewer billed hours. 42% of GCs say AI cost savings should be split equally between firm and client. The framing captures the pricing tension precisely: firms are investing in
Litera relaunched on July 27, 2026, positioning itself as "the Legal AI provider best built to run across the practice and business of law on one agent and one dataset." The product at the center is Lito — embedded natively in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, spanning drafting, comparison, contract review, institutional knowledge, and client development. Litera Foundation and Foundation 365 (th
Legal Decoder launched Aperture on July 27, 2026 — a natural language interface enabling legal professionals to analyze billing and legal spend data conversationally, backed by the company's existing analytics platform and 45 proprietary analytical flags applied to tens of billions of dollars in prior legal fees. In-house legal departments use it to gain insight into billing practices, staffing, w
Litera's July 15 relaunch confirmed that Foundation 365 — its institutional knowledge and CRM platform for the business of law — is now deployed across five of the ten largest law firms in the world, with expanded deployment coinciding with the Lito agent relaunch. The platform's architectural proposition is integration: rather than maintaining separate systems for experience management, client re
The July 17 Law.com column by Jared Coseglia poses the diagnostic that every BD director building a data-driven client development program should be stress-testing before authorizing the next CRM or AI investment: Where does its data come from? How does it stay current without asking attorneys to maintain it? And what happens to the firm's relationship intelligence when a key relationship partner
Wotton Kearney, an Australian specialist law firm, selected Intapp DealCloud with Celeste following a competitive RFP process, citing that DealCloud is "purpose-built for the legal market, highly configurable, designed for the agentic era, and supported by a team with genuine expertise in legal business development." The platform provides a unified system for managing relationships, tracking clien
LexisNexis announced on July 8 that Lexis+ with Protégé is now purpose-built for in-house legal and compliance teams, offering more than 100 pre-built workflows, over 50 skills developed by LexisNexis, integration of Anthropic's Claude legal plugin suite, and grounding in more than 200 billion documents. The platform covers drafting, contracting, compliance monitoring, and workflow automation — an
Analysis from Farber Law Firm and Attorney at Practice confirms that client expectations in 2026 have reset: portals, real-time matter reporting, and proactive communication are now described as standard expectations rather than premium service features. Flat fees, capped fees, subscriptions, and success-based pricing are all growing as clients seek budget predictability. High-performing firms are