Legal Tech Monitor

Singapore Management University (SMU) today announced that SMU’s Yong Pung How School of Law is joining Legora’s Legal AI Scholars Program, becoming the first university in Asia to do so. […] The post SMU’s Yong Pung How School of Law becomes first in Asia to join Legora’s AI scholar program appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division announced on September 8 that it reached an agreement with Kansas in a lawsuit alleging discrimination against a servicemember, marking another example of the federal government using civil-rights enforcement tools against a state-level employer.

From : Blog Entry >> Danial’s Blog Entry The first thing you notice at ILTACON is the energy. Thousands of legal technology professionals, IT leaders, knowledge management specialists, innovation officers, and vendor partners filling session halls and demo floors with an urgency that is unmistakable. These are people who have spent years building the infrastructure that modern law firms run on, and in 2026, with AI reshaping every layer of that infrastructure, the stakes feel higher than ever.

Zoom Communications, Inc. has launched a new inter partes review at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, filing IPR2026-00470 on September 2, 2026. The proceeding adds another potentially significant dispute to the PTAB docket and is one that patent litigators, prosecution counsel, and in-house IP teams may want to track closely. At this stage, the publicly available docket information identifies Zoom Communications, Inc.

Subsidies can’t last, and the sooner firms realize it, the better they will be able to make rational budgeting decisions and product choices.

Chronologies have become one of legal tech’s hottest categories, with a wave of AI startups promising to turn a messy evidentiary record into a structured timeline in minutes.Jeff Kerrand his companyCasefleetwere more than a decade ahead of the pack. Kerr finished law school in 2010 and made what he calls the crazy decision to start a law firm as his first job after graduating. Running an employment practice, he found that winning cases came down to knowing the chronology cold.

Flexible legal services provider Latitude Legal has promoted chief revenue officer Alex Su to president, in a move that sees co-founder and chief executive Ross Booher hand over day-to-day operational […] The post Alex Su takes over as president of Latitude Legal   appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

The new funding, which saw participation from Chilean law firm Carey and Argentinian law firm Beccar Varela, will primarily be devoted to expanding the company’s operations to Mexico and Brazil.

OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Astra, its latest frontier model, promising a significant step forward in computer use and complex, multi-step professional work. For the legal sector, early reactions suggest that […] The post OpenAI GPT-6 Astra: What legal needs to know and early reactions  appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

The company intends to devote the funds to new hiring as it aims to bring its litigation platform to a broader market.