Bob Ambrogi
@bobambrogi.bsky.social
Lawyer/journalist covering #legaltech and innovation at my blog LawSites and podcast LawNext, both at www.lawnext.com. Also run the #legaltech directory directory.lawnext.com, and host Legaltech Week live every Friday at 3 ET www.youtube.com/@legaltechweek
BREAKING: Clio closes $1B vLex acquisition + $500M Series G at $5B valuation. The biggest deal in legal tech history is done. Exclusive interview with CEO Jack Newton: www.lawnext.com/2025/11/clio...
Clio Completes Historic $1 Billion vLex Acquisition, Announces $500 Million Series G at $5 Billion Valuation, Plus Exclusive Interview with CEO and CFO
Legal technology company Clio has completed its $1 billion acquisition of vLex, marking the conclusion of the largest deal in legal tech history, and has simultaneously closed a $500 million Series G....
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November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
BREAKING: Clio closes $1B vLex acquisition + $500M Series G at $5B valuation. The biggest deal in legal tech history is done. Exclusive interview with CEO Jack Newton: www.lawnext.com/2025/11/clio...
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You can never appease a tyrant.
September 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
You can never appease a tyrant.
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“This country is rapidly moving toward an authoritarian form of society. In authoritarian countries—like Russia and Saudi Arabia—you do not have a media that is allowed to be critical of the government,” says Sen. Bernie Sanders, on how ABC paused Kimmel's show after the Trump FCC's threats.
Bernie Sanders RIPS Jimmy Kimmel suspension: Now we're closer to 'authoritarianism'
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September 18, 2025 at 1:41 AM
“This country is rapidly moving toward an authoritarian form of society. In authoritarian countries—like Russia and Saudi Arabia—you do not have a media that is allowed to be critical of the government,” says Sen. Bernie Sanders, on how ABC paused Kimmel's show after the Trump FCC's threats.
Let me get this straight: A comedian should be taken off the air over a single sentence that the far right says was a "lie," but Fox News is free to tell all the lies it wants, as long as they favor Trump? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments After F.C.C. Pressure
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September 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Let me get this straight: A comedian should be taken off the air over a single sentence that the far right says was a "lie," but Fox News is free to tell all the lies it wants, as long as they favor Trump? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
It's my 30th year covering legal tech. So I turned, naturally, to ChatGPT to sum up the recurring themes across all those years of following legal tech's evolution. What it generated surprised even me. www.lawnext.com/2025/07/recu...
Recurring Themes In Bob Ambrogi’s 30 Years of Legal Tech Reporting (A Guest Post By ChatGPT)
[Note: This year marks the 30th in which I've been tracking the development of legal tech — or at least that is the earliest evidence I can find of when I started regularly writing about the subject. ...
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July 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It's my 30th year covering legal tech. So I turned, naturally, to ChatGPT to sum up the recurring themes across all those years of following legal tech's evolution. What it generated surprised even me. www.lawnext.com/2025/07/recu...
As a follow-up to my earlier post about the @goclio.bsky.social acquisition of vLex, I got a chance to sit down for a conversation about the deal with CEO Jack Newton. www.lawnext.com/2025/06/a-co...
A Conversation with CEO Jack Newton on Clio’s Acquisition of vLex
Landmark news broke this morning that law practice management company Clio has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the AI and legal research company vLex for $1 billion in cash and stock. After m...
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June 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
As a follow-up to my earlier post about the @goclio.bsky.social acquisition of vLex, I got a chance to sit down for a conversation about the deal with CEO Jack Newton. www.lawnext.com/2025/06/a-co...
In a landmark $1B deal, @goclio.bsky.social has acquired global AI and legal research company vLex. www.lawnext.com/2025/06/in-a...
In A Mega Deal, Clio Buys vLex for $1 Billion, Merging AI, Research and Practice Management
In a landmark deal that will undoubtedly reshape the legal tech landscape, law practice management company Clio has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the AI and legal research company vLex for....
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June 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
In a landmark $1B deal, @goclio.bsky.social has acquired global AI and legal research company vLex. www.lawnext.com/2025/06/in-a...
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There were reports last year that Harvey wanted to buy vLex. At the time, I thought it would’ve made more sense the other way around. So this is an interesting pivot by Harvey.
The gen AI startup Harvey has entered into a partnership with
@lexisnexis.bsky.social by which it will integrated LN technology, primary law content, and Shepard's Citations within the Harvey platform. www.lawnext.com/2025/06/lega...
@lexisnexis.bsky.social by which it will integrated LN technology, primary law content, and Shepard's Citations within the Harvey platform. www.lawnext.com/2025/06/lega...
Legal AI Platform Harvey To Get LexisNexis Content and Tech In New Partnership Between the Companies
The generative AI legal startup Harvey has entered into a strategic alliance with LexisNexis Legal & Professional by which it will integrate LexisNexis' gen AI technology, primary law content, and...
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June 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
There were reports last year that Harvey wanted to buy vLex. At the time, I thought it would’ve made more sense the other way around. So this is an interesting pivot by Harvey.
In major news for the legal profession, Puerto Rico's Supreme Court has adopted new rules allowing non-lawyer ownership of law firms. A dissenting justice said this could put lawyers' independent judgment at risk. www.lawnext.com/2025/06/puer...
Puerto Rico Allows Non-Lawyer Ownership of Law Firms
I wrote yesterday about the Puerto Rico Supreme Court's adoption of the duty of technology competence, done as part of its promulgation of new rules of professional conduct to replace a code of ethics...
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June 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
In major news for the legal profession, Puerto Rico's Supreme Court has adopted new rules allowing non-lawyer ownership of law firms. A dissenting justice said this could put lawyers' independent judgment at risk. www.lawnext.com/2025/06/puer...
The gen AI startup Harvey has entered into a partnership with
@lexisnexis.bsky.social by which it will integrated LN technology, primary law content, and Shepard's Citations within the Harvey platform. www.lawnext.com/2025/06/lega...
@lexisnexis.bsky.social by which it will integrated LN technology, primary law content, and Shepard's Citations within the Harvey platform. www.lawnext.com/2025/06/lega...
Legal AI Platform Harvey To Get LexisNexis Content and Tech In New Partnership Between the Companies
The generative AI legal startup Harvey has entered into a strategic alliance with LexisNexis Legal & Professional by which it will integrate LexisNexis' gen AI technology, primary law content, and...
www.lawnext.com
June 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The gen AI startup Harvey has entered into a partnership with
@lexisnexis.bsky.social by which it will integrated LN technology, primary law content, and Shepard's Citations within the Harvey platform. www.lawnext.com/2025/06/lega...
@lexisnexis.bsky.social by which it will integrated LN technology, primary law content, and Shepard's Citations within the Harvey platform. www.lawnext.com/2025/06/lega...
What's @perplexityai.bsky.social have to say about its new partnership with @legalzoom.bsky.social? I asked it, and you can read its response in my post below. www.lawnext.com/2025/06/as-l...
As LegalZoom Partners with Gen AI Company Perplexity to Provide Legal Services, I Ask Perplexity What It All Means
In what is described as the first known partnership between a legal services provider and a major generative AI platform, LegalZoom and Perplexity have entered into an agreement by which Perplexity Pr...
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June 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
What's @perplexityai.bsky.social have to say about its new partnership with @legalzoom.bsky.social? I asked it, and you can read its response in my post below. www.lawnext.com/2025/06/as-l...
At the Aderant Momentum Global conference, the momentum was towards AI-enabled cloud innovation and 'unmatched client experience.' I attended this user conference and here's my report. www.lawnext.com/2025/06/at-a...
At Aderant’s Momentum Global Conference, A Drive Towards AI-Enabled Cloud Innovation and ‘Unmatched Client Experience’
As he took the stage before the nearly 1,000 people assembled in the ballroom of the Omni Hotel in Dallas to open his company’s Momentum Global 2025 user conference May 20, Aderant President and CEO C...
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June 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
At the Aderant Momentum Global conference, the momentum was towards AI-enabled cloud innovation and 'unmatched client experience.' I attended this user conference and here's my report. www.lawnext.com/2025/06/at-a...
@thomsonreutersnews.bsky.social teases the "next gen" of agentic AI for legal, with its release today of the new CoCounsel for tax and accounting professionals, and a version for legal professionals coming this summer. www.lawnext.com/2025/06/thom...
Thomson Reuters Teases Upcoming Release of Agentic CoCounsel AI for Legal, Capable of Complex Workflows
Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of the 'next gen' of its CoCounsel artificial intelligence platform, marking what the company describes as a fundamental shift from AI assistants that respon...
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June 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
@thomsonreutersnews.bsky.social teases the "next gen" of agentic AI for legal, with its release today of the new CoCounsel for tax and accounting professionals, and a version for legal professionals coming this summer. www.lawnext.com/2025/06/thom...
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I've been saying for the last couple of years that AI adoption by law firms will drive down new lawyer hiring and create a mortal threat to the lawyer development pipeline. So it behooves me to alert you to data that points in exactly the opposite direction of what I've been predicting.
April 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I've been saying for the last couple of years that AI adoption by law firms will drive down new lawyer hiring and create a mortal threat to the lawyer development pipeline. So it behooves me to alert you to data that points in exactly the opposite direction of what I've been predicting.
Is AI killing off lawyers' jobs? The latest law grad employment report suggests otherwise, with a record number of grads and a record number of hires. www.lawnext.com/2025/04/reco...
Record Law Grad Employment Rates Suggest AI Isn’t Killing Off Lawyers Just Yet
At a time when legal doomsayers have been predicting the imminent replacement of junior associates by AI legal assistants, the law school graduating class of 2024 has delivered a contrary verdict: Hum...
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April 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Is AI killing off lawyers' jobs? The latest law grad employment report suggests otherwise, with a record number of grads and a record number of hires. www.lawnext.com/2025/04/reco...
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Superstar panel — talking Access to Justice #A2J — at the @suffolklitlab.org #LITCon 2025!
- Bob Ambrogi @bobambrogi.bsky.social
- Sateesh Nori — Just-Tech — @theaugmentedlawyer.bsky.social
- Ben Jackson — Upsolve
- Nicole Bradick @nbradick.bsky.social
- Bob Ambrogi @bobambrogi.bsky.social
- Sateesh Nori — Just-Tech — @theaugmentedlawyer.bsky.social
- Ben Jackson — Upsolve
- Nicole Bradick @nbradick.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Superstar panel — talking Access to Justice #A2J — at the @suffolklitlab.org #LITCon 2025!
- Bob Ambrogi @bobambrogi.bsky.social
- Sateesh Nori — Just-Tech — @theaugmentedlawyer.bsky.social
- Ben Jackson — Upsolve
- Nicole Bradick @nbradick.bsky.social
- Bob Ambrogi @bobambrogi.bsky.social
- Sateesh Nori — Just-Tech — @theaugmentedlawyer.bsky.social
- Ben Jackson — Upsolve
- Nicole Bradick @nbradick.bsky.social
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As usual I think @bobambrogi.bsky.social has it right. McCormick Center is big, modern, and impressive...but most of all it's big. And the sheer size of the space made it harder to run into folks.
There are several LegalTech friends I didn't get to see even though we were both there. #ABATECHSHOW
There are several LegalTech friends I didn't get to see even though we were both there. #ABATECHSHOW
Marking Its 40th Anniversary In A New Venue, ABA Techshow Experiences Growing Pains
“April is the cruellist month,” T.S. Eliot wrote in his classic poem, “The Waste Land,” and the same might have been said for the attendees navigating a waste land of a different sort last week – the....
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April 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
As usual I think @bobambrogi.bsky.social has it right. McCormick Center is big, modern, and impressive...but most of all it's big. And the sheer size of the space made it harder to run into folks.
There are several LegalTech friends I didn't get to see even though we were both there. #ABATECHSHOW
There are several LegalTech friends I didn't get to see even though we were both there. #ABATECHSHOW
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Listen: Trump’s targeting of law firms endangers the right to counsel and the Constitution . @foxmike90.bsky.social and I speak to @cob.bsky.social at the Cato Daily Podcast www.cato.org/multimedia/c...
By Targeting Certain Law Firms, the President Is Threatening the Constitution
Featuring Walter Olson, Mike Fox, and Caleb O. Brown
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March 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Listen: Trump’s targeting of law firms endangers the right to counsel and the Constitution . @foxmike90.bsky.social and I speak to @cob.bsky.social at the Cato Daily Podcast www.cato.org/multimedia/c...
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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
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March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
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Best of their law-focused talk: bsky.app/profile/davi...
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March 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Looking to follow our evolving Constitutional Crisis? This list and two feeds are 🔥 right now:
Folks working in/near law: bsky.app/profile/davi...
Best of their law-focused talk: bsky.app/profile/davi...
Best of their talk (all topics): bsky.app/profile/davi...
Folks working in/near law: bsky.app/profile/davi...
Best of their law-focused talk: bsky.app/profile/davi...
Best of their talk (all topics): bsky.app/profile/davi...
Exclusive: Back by several legal tech veterans, Entegrata raises $4.5M to further its mission to transform law firm data analytics and business intelligence. www.lawnext.com/2025/03/ente...
Entegrata Raises $4.5M To Further Its Mission To Transform Law Firm Data Analytics and Business Intelligence
With $4.5 million in seed funding to date and the backing of several legal technology veterans, the legal technology company Entegrata aims to transform how law firms integrate and analyze data across...
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March 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Exclusive: Back by several legal tech veterans, Entegrata raises $4.5M to further its mission to transform law firm data analytics and business intelligence. www.lawnext.com/2025/03/ente...
@goclio.bsky.social plants a flag in Big Law land with acquisition of ShareDo, a U.K. company that provides cloud-based enterprise case and matter management software for large law firms. www.lawnext.com/2025/03/clio...
Clio Plants Its Flag In Big Law Land with Acquisition of Enterprise Law Firm Software Provider ShareDo
The motto of law practice management company Clio is to 'transform the legal experience for all.' But for many of its 17 years in business, that 'all' has focused primarily on smaller law firms and th...
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March 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
@goclio.bsky.social plants a flag in Big Law land with acquisition of ShareDo, a U.K. company that provides cloud-based enterprise case and matter management software for large law firms. www.lawnext.com/2025/03/clio...
This is the second hallucinated citations case I covered this week. The first lawyer got off the hook, but not this time, as the judge, citing a 1920 sci-fi play, said he outsourced his job to a soulless algorithm. www.lawnext.com/2025/03/my-d...
‘My Dear Miss Glory, the Robots Are Not People,’ Says Judge In Yet Another Hallucinations Case
'My dear Miss Glory, the Robots are not people. Mechanically they are more perfect than we are; they have an enormously developed intelligence, but they have no soul.' With that quote from R.U.R. (Ros...
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March 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This is the second hallucinated citations case I covered this week. The first lawyer got off the hook, but not this time, as the judge, citing a 1920 sci-fi play, said he outsourced his job to a soulless algorithm. www.lawnext.com/2025/03/my-d...