American Bar Association release new survey on legal tech trends

On 3 March 2025, the American Bar Association’s Legal Technology Resource Center released its 2024 Legal Technology Survey Report, providing a comprehensive analysis of how attorneys in private practice are leveraging technology. Now in its 20th year, the survey remains a leading resource on tech adoption in the legal sector, capturing responses across five categories: online…

The rise of artificial intelligence in legal practice: opportunities, challenges, and ethical considerations

In an article for the Colorado Technology Law Journal, candidate attorney Joely Williamson explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the legal profession—revolutionizing traditional practices, creating new opportunities, and raising urgent ethical and regulatory concerns. AI is increasingly used for document review, legal research, contract drafting, and predictive analytics. Generative AI (GenAI) tools like Lexis+…

Artificial intelligence and ethics in the legal profession

By Nathaniel M. Glasser, Frances M. Green, Gretel Zumwalt, and Isabel Wolf – March 11, 2025 In this comprehensive article published by Epstein Becker & Green for the American Bar Association, lawyers at a US healthcare and life sciences law firm explore how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming legal practice and the ethical responsibilities that…

European Union artificial intelligence continent action plan

This development has been reported by the BRAK in its News from Brussels (Issue 7/2025). In its commentary, BRAK underscored the significance of the European Commission’s efforts to shape a unified and strategic approach to artificial intelligence (AI) across the continent. It noted that the AI Continent Action Plan represents a pivotal step towards establishing…

American Bar Association releases new survey on legal tech trends

The American Bar Association (ABA) Legal Technology Resource Center has released its 2024 Legal Technology Survey Report, offering a comprehensive look at technology adoption trends among attorneys in private practice. The annual survey, a key resource for over 20 years, gathered responses across five areas: online research, marketing and communication technology, law office technology, litigation…

Contingency fees in small claims: The majority of German lawyers do not use opportunities offered under 2021 legislation

Since the German Legal Tech Act came into force in October 2021, allowing lawyers to charge success-based fees and cover clients’ legal costs in certain cases, these opportunities have been rarely used. A recent survey conducted by the Federal Bar Association (BRAK) as part of the law’s three-year evaluation found that most lawyers have not…

Enhanced productivity for law firms in Singapore with the integration of microsoft copilot into the legal technology platform

On 11 September 2024, the Ministry of Law (MinLaw) in Singapore, in collaboration with technology providers Lupl and Microsoft, has launched the ‘Copilot for SG Law Firms’ module, integrating Microsoft 365 Copilot into the Legal Technology Platform (LTP)[1]. This innovation positions the Ministry of Law’s LTP as one of the first sector-specific legal technology solutions…

Impact of Digitalization on Legal Regulation: formation of new legal practices

Objective: The objective of the research is to examine the impact of digital technologies introduced into law on the formation of new legal practices. Method: The authors used a mixed methodological strategy. The main research method is the dialectical method. Regulatory documents of Russia and foreign countries were chosen as the information basis for the research….

How do lawyers engineer and develop LegalTech projects? A story of opportunities, platforms, creative rationalities, and strategies

Over the last 15 years, the working context of lawyers has undergone many changes. Evolving in an increasingly competitive, deregulated, and globalized market, they are subject to higher tax pressure while being exposed to unbridled technological innovation. Indeed, a growing number of entrepreneurs are using digital solutions to provide online legal services that are supposed…

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