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BRINGING YOU THE LATEST IN LEGAL TECH NEWS
TLTF & Friends in the News
🗺️ We launched our RegTech Market Map, tracking 200+ early-stage companies, $1.57B in funding, and 5,500+ professionals working to solve some of the most complex problems in compliance.
🎉 Alt Legal secured a growth investment led by SSM Partners with participation from The LegalTech Fund to accelerate global expansion and scale Alt Legal Assist.
🎉 Blackcloak and Priori were named to the 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ as part of North America's fastest-growing companies.
🎉 Lawpro.ai announced their strategic partnership with SmartAdvocate Case Management System to help PI teams work faster, think clearer, and maximize case value with greater confidence.
🎉 We’re proud to support Spellbook as Dropbox selects the platform to power its AI-driven contracting workflows. This partnership highlights the growing demand for tools that help legal teams move faster, work more consistently, and stay focused on high impact work.
💬 ICYMI: At the 2025 TLTF Summit, we spoke with founders shaping the future of law. Hear Stephanie Curcio, CEO and Co-Founder of NLPatent, share her insights on what’s ahead in 2026.
💬 ICYMI: New data reveals that companies are shutting down later, older, and with more capital raised as the post-ZIRP generation matures. Read SimpleClosure’s new State of Startup Shutdowns report.
🎧 In our latest In Studio, Casey Tierney talks with Emery Wager, founder and CEO of Confido Legal, a platform modernizing how law firms handle payments, trust accounting, disbursements, and fraud prevention.
📣 We’re looking for founders building Law Firm 2.0. The LegalTech Lab is open for applications!
News from the World of Law AI & LegalTech
Terms & conditions apply: Clio-owned Fastcase is suing Toronto's Alexi for allegedly breaching a 2021 data-licensing agreement by using Fastcase's legal research database to build a competing platform.
A whole new world: Disney and OpenAI reach 3 year agreement to bring +200 characters from across Disney’s brands to Sora
Learning by doing deals: Rubi offers virtual M&A apprenticeships that train junior lawyers to second-year associate level in 10-15 hours
Privacy & Surveillance
Higher learning, lower security: Three Ivy League schools suffered data breaches after attackers used stolen credentials to access alumni and donor information.
Face value: Ring's new facial recognition tech promises convenience, but privacy advocates say the real cost is your biometric data and your neighbors' consent.
Chain reaction: Salesforce-Gainsight hack shows how supply chain vulnerabilities cascade through enterprise software.
Legal System & Policy
Intelligence penalty: New legislation targets fraudsters who weaponize AI, proving that artificial intelligence won't get you out of real consequences.
Carrier liability: U.S. Supreme Court will decide if internet service providers can be held responsible for their users' copyright infringement.
Contempt of ChatGPT: Lawyer faces criminal contempt proceedings after admitting factum contained AI-hallucinated cases and she initially lied to the court about it.
Listen
Cyrus Shepard talks on the Lawyerist Podcast about SEO strategies for lawyers in a "zero-click" AI world. (41 mins)
Gyi Tsakalakis and Conrad Saam talk on Lunch Hour Legal Marketing about using competitive research to outpace market rivals. (38 mins)
Narrative founder, John Tertan, talks with The Geek In Review about law firm pricing, messy data, and why substance matters more than shiny tools. (37 mins)
Tanner’s Other Page Turners
Researchers used 3 million days of Apple Watch data to train a disease detection AI
Students build AI-powered robot to replant trees in wildfire-damaged forests
Mars rover captures crackling sound of Martian mini-lightning for the first time
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January 21 - 23, 2026 - Qualytics at Quartz Network Data Strategy & Analytics Forum in Nashville, TN.
January 25 - 28, 2026 - FlyTech Inc. at Trial Lawyers Summit in Miami, FL.
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