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• Blickstein Group teamed up with Dealtechno to add legaltech recruiting and sales advisory capabilities, expanding its offering beyond strategy and marketing.

• Lexamica was selected as the official referral platform for the Fireproof Performance law firm network, giving members a centralized tool for sending, receiving, and tracking attorney-to-attorney referrals across the community.

• LawPro.ai teamed up with Morgan & Morgan to study 300+ PI firms, producing the 2026 Future of Legal Tech in Personal Injury report.

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The Breakdown

HOW GOOD DOES THE TECHNOLOGY & USER EXPERIENCE GET?

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News in Five

AI & LEGALTECH

• Consolidation, training, and ROI: Burford’s David Perla says AI hype's over. Consolidation's here, but training + ROI prove real bottlenecks.

• Legal tech stocks rattled: RELX, Wolters Kluwer tank 10%+ as Claude drops legal plugin for contracts, NDAs, briefs. AI disruption sell-off.

• Architecture over interface: Legal AI research: Judge tools by backend architecture, not UI. Need curated law data, domain models, firm-like workflows.

  
  

PRIVACY & SURVEILLANCE

• Proving the real: Instagram is preparing to cryptographically sign authentic media at the source, allowing users to distinguish genuine photos from AI generated photos.

• The master delete: California launched its DROP portal that allows residents to request that every registered data broker delete their personal information at once.

• Privacy by design: The UK has started enforcing new cyber-flashing mandates under the Online Safety Act, legally requiring platforms to proactively block unsolicited explicit images before they are delivered.

  
  

LEGAL SYSTEM & POLICY

• DOJ launched AI litigation task force: The Justice Department formed a task force to challenge state AI laws on Commerce Clause grounds, following an executive order pushing federal preemption.

• Colorado's AI Act pushed to June 30, 2026: The law established requirements for risk-management, transparency, and algorithmic discrimination protections for high-risk AI systems.

• Illinois targeted law firm MSOs and ABS: Two new bills were introduced to regulate private equity and hedge fund investments in law firm alternative business structures.

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Listen

• 🎧Jen Leonard (Creative Lawyers) and Bridget McCormack (AAA) on the AI and the Future of Law Podcast. (39 mins)

• 🎧Eric Weitz (Weitz Law Firm; Pennsylvania Association for Justice) on Steno’s Between the Briefs. (41 mins)

• 🎧Dr. Anna Popowicz-Pazdej and Maz Araghrez (Dentons) on Legal Innovation Spotlight. (51 mins)

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Tanner's Page Turners

• Autonomous-ish self-driving, with a human-in-the-loop

• No ropes. No margin for error. No thanks.

• Looks like Boston Dynamics’ Atlas grabbed one too many Monday morning coffees

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On the Road

WHERE TO FIND OUR PORTFOLIO COMPANIES

February 17-21 | Denver, CO Midao at ETH Denver February 19 | Miami, FL SingleFile at LPGP Connect Operating Partners Summit February 22 | Phoenix, AZ LawPro.ai at Law Tigers Mastermind 2026 February 22–25 | Orlando, FL SingleFile at PEI Nexus 2026 February 23–25 | NYC Infodash at COLPM Futures Conference February 25 | NYC Qualytics at AssetOps

March 4–5 | Beverly Hills, CA SingleFile at Beverly Hills Super Summit (Family Office Club) March 9–13 | NYC Infodash, NLPatent, Wexler at Legalweek March 9 | NYC NLPatent is a panelist at AI Workshop on Rethinking ROI for AI March 10 | NYC Wexler is hosting a supper during Legal Week March 11 | NYC NLPatent is a panelist at Future State of the Industry Deep Dive November 16-18 | Scottsdale, AZ Everyone is at the TLTF Summit!

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• LawPro.ai is hiring an Account Executive.

• Newcode.ai is hiring Legal Engineers in Oslo and Stockholm.

• SimpleClosure is hiring across engineering, marketing, partnerships, people, and sales.

• SingleFile is hiring a Business Development Representative and an Account Executive.

• Steno is hiring a Deputy Chief of Staff and an Applied Economist, Marketplace Expansion.

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