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Fundraising
◾ Artificial Lawyers posts about DeepiP’s latest fundraising:
“. . . here’s a fundraise story. DeepIP, a relatively new AI patent platform – which among several others is now blazing an AI-powered path through the IP world – has raised $25m more in a Series B funding round, bringing its total capital raised to $40m over a very short timespan, (as nicely illustrated above).”
“François-Xavier Leduc, CEO and Co-Founder of DeepIP, commented: ‘The first wave of AI in patent practice focused on speeding up individual tasks. But patent work is cumulative. It spans years, teams, decisions. We built DeepIP to be the system where that work lives, with AI embedded throughout the workflow so professionals don’t have to manage fragmentation or carry context manually.’”
Congratulations to François-Xavier and the rest of the DeepIP team on the raise.
https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2026/03/03/deepip-raises-25m-for-ai-driven-patent-work/
◾ Investor Northlane Capital Partners announces its investment in "File & ServeXpress (“FSX” or the “Company”), a leading provider of online document exchange, data and document management, and notifications, serving courts, government agencies, and legal professionals across the United States." Northlane made the investment alongside members of FSX's management.
The entire press release from Northlane can be read here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260301273158/en/Northlane-Capital-Partners-Announces-Investment-in-File-ServeXpress
◾ Happy to report that, as covered in this LinkedIn post from Scott Stevenson, Spellbook's co-founder and CEO, Spellbook has closed a $40 million raise with RBC. From what Scott has posted, it looks like Spellbook has some acquisition roll-up plans in the works. A link to Scott's post appears below.
From Scott's post:
"We’re thrilled to announce that Spellbook has raised $40m in financing in addition to the $50m we raised last October.
"We’ve seen record-breaking growth in 2026, with lawyers booking 410 demos of Spellbook last week. We now serve over 4,000 in-house legal teams and law firms.
"We’re using this new capital to fund acquisitions in a consolidating legal AI market."https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scottas_spellbook-secures-us40-million-from-rbc-activity-7434940485665804288-6w9Z?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAACjKkUBuYvfoBWwBGd7KKABZw3jrdiBcc0
◾ Funding news on Friday from Legaltech News (LTN):
“Litigation startup Advocacy announced Friday that it raised $3.5 million in a seed funding round led by venture capital and private equity investor Relentless, with participation from Rel Labs—the investment arm of e-discovery company Relativity—Fenwick & West, investors from T14 law schools and what the startup called a “consortium” of Big Law and litigation boutique firm partners.”
Read more about the raise (including information about how Advocacy intends to use the funds it raised) in the complete LTN post that’s found here: https://www.law.com/legaltechnews/2026/03/06/litigation-startup-advocacy-announces-35m-investment-with-backing-from-fenwick--west-relativity-labs/
◾ Funding news today, Monday, March 9, 2026, from Legaltech News (LTN):
"Australia-based legal tech startup Mary Technology announced Monday that it raised $7 million AUD (approximately $4.9 million) in a funding round led by OIF Ventures and with participation from Sydney Angels and Empress Capital.
"Mary Technology plans to use the funding to expand its market reach in the U.S. as it also announced the opening of its San Francisco office."
"Mary Technology developed software that it calls its Fact Management System, which helps litigation and dispute lawyers review and verify the facts that emerge from their dispute resolution processes.
"The system can identify how e-discovery software that uses generative artificial intelligence, for example, has combed through data to ensure the correct findings have been verified by the user."
https://www.law.com/legaltechnews/2026/03/09/australian-startup-mary-technology-secures-49m-funding-round-opens-san-francisco-office/?kw=Australian+Startup+Mary+Technology+Secures+$4.9M+Funding+Round,+Opens+San+Francisco+Office&utm_position=2&utm_source=email&utm_medium=enl&utm_campaign=morningupdate&utm_content=20260309&utm_term=ltn&oly_enc_id=6788E2252056B4A&user_id=5a62392218ff43ec508b502b
Hiring/New Hires
◾ No better way to celebrate Women's History Month than to post about Aderant hiring its first woman Chief Revenue Officer, Aderant veteran Aisling Fenelon.
From the Aderant press release:
"ATLANTA — March 3, 2026 — Aderant, a leading global provider of business-of-law solutions, today announced the appointment of Aisling Fenelon as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Fenelon, a highly respected legal technology executive with more than 25 years of industry experience, is promoted from her role as Vice President of Sales, North America. She has spent the past eleven years at Aderant building, scaling, and leading high-performing revenue teams while partnering closely with law firm clients to deliver measurable business outcomes."
The complete press release can be accessed at this link: https://network-295075.mn.co/posts/98772620?utm_source=manual
◾ Legal tech notable, Tara Waters, lands at Harvey, as Artificial Lawyer (AL) reports in this post:
"Been a lot of news today, but, as AL covered Tara Waters’ move from Ashurst in 2024 to become a freelance consultant, it’s only right that this site also covers her move to Harvey.
By coincidence, UK-based Tara had helped Ashurst to bring aboard Harvey and left not long after the global implementation of the platform. Now she joins the likes of Joe Cohen at the fast-growing legal tech company as a Legal Innovation Partner – i.e. folks with a law firm legal innovation background who can engage with Harvey’s customers in a very in-depth way."
Read the entire AL post here: https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2024/09/26/tara-waters-on-legal-tech-life-after-ashurst/
◾ Big Harvey news day, with Legal IT Insider posting about the Lume acquihire:
"In its second acquisition since the start of 2026, Harvey has acquired Lume, the AI-powered data integration startup backed by Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, Floodgate and General Catalyst, Harvey announced today (3 March).
"Founded in 2022 and launched in 2023, Lume is designed to speed up customer integrations and automate the integration lifecycle. It specialises in data mapping and transformation, using AI to map data and extract it from database silos before converting it in a format that it can be moved in and integrated with other workflows. The five-employee strong company in November last year raised $4.2m led by the VC firms named above."
Read all of Legal IT Insider's post at this link: https://legaltechnology.com/2026/03/03/harvey-acquires-data-integration-startup-lume/?utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8JADTsMH9RPDC0pRCRcFok9sOeL9B07D5mzjZ44TQ32gaIExVI1_rwM_co8u5F9jERR2gjNKzID1kdFWo5tHPcj7boK5CfCRv7EgjHmcMPuWIL8WQ&_hsmi=130053218&utm_content=130053218&utm_source=hs_email
◾ Boy oh boy is Harvey on a news worthiness tear. Here’s a link to a LinkedIn post from Farrah Pepper that announces that Farrah is joining the Harvey team.
From Farrah’s post:
“🚀 It’s official! New gig alert!
“I am delighted to join Harvey as a Legal Innovation Partner.
“✨ This is a new role where I will partner closely with senior in-house leaders to rethink how AI is transforming both the business and practice of law.
“✨ I will be spearheading a new effort at Harvey devoted to the unique challenges facing in-house corporate teams, championing the in-house perspective through education, thought partnership and community collaboration.”
It’s great to hear that in-house legal will have, in Farrah, such a worthy advocate at Harvey. Congratulations to both Harvey and Farrah!!
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/farrahpepper_its-officialnew-gig-alert-i-am-delighted-share-7434630218407026688-5eEq?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAACjKkUBuYvfoBWwBGd7KKABZw3jrdiBcc0
◾ “Head of Legal Technology Adoption” has a certain ring to it as a law firm job title, wouldn’t you say? A post from Legal IT Insider:
“UK top 50 law firm HFW has appointed Ashleigh Ovland in the newly-created role of head of legal technology adoption. Ovland will work closely with lawyers and business services teams to “identify where AI and other legal technologies can enhance client outcomes, strengthen relationships, and improve the efficiency and quality of legal delivery,” the firm said today (5 March).”
https://legaltechnology.com/2026/03/05/hfw-appoints-first-head-of-legal-technology-adoption/
JusticeTech/A2J
◾ A shot in the arm for A2J with the formation of a partnership between Paladin and Practicing Law Institute, as reported in a post from LawSites. From the LawSites' post:
"Paladin, a pro bono management platform, and Practising Law Institute (PLI), a nonprofit legal education provider, have announced a partnership aimed at integrating skills training with pro bono work for law students.
"Under the arrangement, law students using Paladin’s platform to find pro bono placements will also have access to PLI’s on-demand training programs. The idea is to pair the moment a student takes on a pro bono matter — such as an immigration intake clinic, elder benefits case or innocence research project — with targeted instruction to help them handle it."
https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/paladin-and-pli-partner-to-connect-law-students-with-pro-bono-training-and-opportunities.html
Member Introductions/Questions
◾ New community member, Nilkanth Telang introduces himself:
My name is Nilkanth Telang, and I am the Co-Founder of TextAssist, an AI-powered legal intelligence platform being developed by PredictWiseAI Inc.
My work focuses on building systems that help legal teams manage complex information more efficiently. Over time, I observed that a significant portion of legal work involves repeatedly analysing documents, re-evaluating risks, and re-drafting clauses that firms have already handled before.
Yet in most law firms and legal departments, the reasoning behind those decisions is rarely captured in a structured way. Knowledge is scattered across documents, emails, and individual lawyers’ experience.
TextAssist was created to address this problem.
What TextAssist Does
TextAssist is an AI-powered platform designed to help legal teams analyse documents, draft contracts, verify compliance, and retain institutional knowledge.
The platform combines several capabilities into a unified system:
Document Intelligence
Automatically extracts obligations, risks, and deviations from contracts and legal documents.
Compliance Mapping
Compares clauses and documents against regulatory requirements to identify potential compliance gaps.
Structured Legal Drafting
Instead of generating contracts from open prompts, TextAssist guides lawyers through structured decision workflows so that the correct clauses and jurisdiction-specific language are applied consistently.
Institutional Memory
Every legal decision—such as risk acceptance, fallback clauses, or negotiation outcomes—is captured and stored in a structured format so it can be reused in future matters.
The goal is not to replace legal judgement but to ensure that a firm’s knowledge compounds over time rather than being lost between matters.
Why This Matters
Across the legal industry, several trends are converging:
Legal teams are under pressure to deliver faster and more consistent advice
Regulatory complexity is increasing rapidly
Experienced legal professionals are retiring or changing roles more frequently
Most legal knowledge remains unstructured and difficult to reuse
As a result, lawyers often spend significant time rediscovering information that already exists within the organisation.
TextAssist aims to solve this by creating a legal intelligence layer that allows prior knowledge, drafting decisions, and risk assessments to be captured and reused.
How TextAssist Is Different
Many legal AI tools focus on generative chat interfaces.
TextAssist takes a different approach.
The platform is built around:
Structured drafting workflows
Institutional memory capture
Compliance verification
Matter-centric intelligence dashboards
This creates a system where legal reasoning becomes structured, searchable, and reusable, rather than disappearing once a matter closes.
Current Status
MVP launching May 2026
Initial pilot discussions with law firms
Building early partnerships with legal professionals and advisors
Preparing for Seed funding
Our immediate focus is working with a small number of legal teams to validate workflows and refine the platform before broader deployment.
What We Are Looking For
We are currently connecting with:
Lawyers and legal professionals interested in shaping early product development
Law firms and in-house legal teams open to pilot programs
Technology experts and partners
Investors interested in legal infrastructure and AI
Contact
Nilkanth Telang
Co-Founder — TextAssist
PredictWiseAI Inc.
🌐 www.textassist.io
Partnerships/Business Development
◾ Business partnership reporting in an Artificial Lawyer post:
“Sandstone, which describes itself as a Legal Control Tower, has formed a partnership with LegalEng Consulting Group (LECG), a team focused on CLM and legal ops and which came out of Ironclad. The move follows last week’s news that Mary O’Carroll, the well-known legal ops expert, it to act as an advisor to the inhouse-focused startup.”
“Through this partnership, LECG will help clients evaluate and implement Sandstone’s platform as part of their broader legal operations transformation initiatives, [Sandstone] added.”
https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2026/03/03/sandstone-partners-with-ex-ironclad-legal-ops-group/
◾ Bar associations are a too often neglected resource for legal tech vendors, as evidenced here by the post from Legaltech News (LTN) about Spellbook's partnership with the Canadian Bar Association: From the LTN post:
"The Canadian Bar Association has struck a two-year deal with fast-growing Canadian legal-tech firm Spellbook that will give its 40,000 members a 20% discount on the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) contract-drafting tools.
"In a statement announcing the agreement, CBA president Bianca Kratt, who is also a partner at Borden Ladner Gervais, said the partnership places particular emphasis on security and privacy protections."
Read the entire LTS post at the link below:
https://www.law.com/legaltechnews/2026/03/03/canadian-bar-association-and-ai-powered-legal-tech-company-spellbook-form-partnership/?kw=Canadian+Bar+Association+and+AI-Powered+Legal+Tech+Company+Spellbook+Form+Partnership&utm_position=2&utm_source=email&utm_medium=enl&utm_campaign=morningupdate&utm_content=20260304&utm_term=ltn&oly_enc_id=6788E2252056B4A&user_id=5a62392218ff43ec508b502b&slreturn=20260304081206
◾ "Darlings" or "demons in the pressP, Claude and OpenAI seem to get all the attention. But let's never forget what Microsoft means to lawyers, and along with Microsoft comes "Microsoft 365 Copilot." So it's no surprise, I suppose, that Legaltech News (LTN) posts about Harvey's forthcoming integration with Copilot. From the LTN post:
"Legal tech startup Harvey announced Wednesday that it is integrating with Microsoft 365 Copilot to provide legal-focused generative artificial intelligence capabilities to users in one place. The integration is set to initially launch in spring of this year."
"'The motivation for this partnership is a recognition of where a lot of legal work already begins,' Harvey product manager Matthew Guillod told Legaltech News. 'I worked in Big Law and I worked in the Microsoft suite all the time. That's something that I was very familiar with and I was working in. At Harvey, we want to recognize that reality, and that's where a lot of our users are driving value and we want to meet them where they're at.'”
Read the entire LTN post here: https://www.law.com/legaltechnews/2026/03/04/harvey-teams-up-with-microsoft-for-copilot-integration/?kw=Harvey+Teams+Up+With+Microsoft+for+Copilot+Integration&utm_source=email&utm_medium=enl&utm_campaign=afternoonupdate&utm_content=20260304&utm_term=ltn&oly_enc_id=6788E2252056B4A&user_id=5a62392218ff43ec508b502b
Product Development
◾ Product launch news in a press release today, March 4, 2026, from Bundledocs, a provider of "'cloud-first’' document binding and PDF editing services" for legal professionals.
From the press release:
"4 March, 2026 — Cork, Ireland: Bundledocs, a leading global cloud-based document bundling software provider, today announced the launch of Bundledocs Review, the next evolution from document production to true document collaboration. New collaboration capabilities introduce real-time review and secure shared workspaces for the legal sector, connecting teams, experts, and counsel within a single, controlled environment. By supporting collaborative working on document bundles rather than sequential handovers, Bundledocs Review reduces bottlenecks and time spent collaborating, accelerates feedback and minimises version confusion.
"Fully integrated within the existing Bundledocs platform, Bundledocs Review enables firms to move seamlessly from document preparation to review and editing, without exporting files or switching between systems. Legal teams can now enable multiple internal and external contributors to review, comment, annotate, redact, and progress documents simultaneously, while maintaining tight access control."
The complete press release is accessible at this lin: https://network-295075.mn.co/posts/98812554?utm_source=manual
◾ Here’s a LawSites post about a new AI product offering from legal research company, Descrybe:
“The AI legal research startup Descrybe today launched a “legal reasoning” product, DescrybeLM, that it says outperforms leading general-purpose AI models on a standardized legal reasoning benchmark — and it is publishing the methodology and scoring data to invite scrutiny.”
Read this paper post not only for its in-depth description of the new product offering from Descrybe, but also for its very insightful general discussion of LLM testing for legal.
Read the complete LawSites post at this link:
https://www.lawnext.com/2026/03/ai-legal-research-startup-descrybe-launches-legal-reasoning-tool-says-it-outperforms-chatgpt-claude-and-gemini-on-bar-exam-benchmark.html
Purchasing/Using Legal Tech
◾ This one surprised, but pleased, me. According to a post from Legaltech News (LTN), a law firm's "tech-forward" approach to its tech stack and to that stack's actual use in the firm's practice is now on the list of criteria that potential lateral hires use to evaluate the firm. (Oh, and don't worry, compensation is still on the list.)
From the LTN post:
"More enticing compensation, footprint reach and career advancement opportunities undoubtedly drive some lawyer moves, but legal industry experts now say technology and innovation are fast becoming a significant factor in attorneys’ decisions to leave one law firm for another.
"While still anecdotal, industry experts say laterals—both partners and associates—now appear to be choosing law firms based, at least in some part, on firms’ willingness to embrace technology and innovate their business operations."
https://www.law.com/legaltechnews/2026/03/02/move-over-comp-innovation-is-now-a-key-driver-behind-lawyer-moves/?kw=Move+Over+Comp,+Innovation+is+Now+a+Key+Driver+Behind+Lawyer+Moves&utm_source=email&utm_medium=enl&utm_campaign=afternoonupdate&utm_content=20260302&utm_term=ltn&oly_enc_id=6788E2252056B4A&user_id=5a62392218ff43ec508b502b
◾ I received the following as part of an announcement from Tom Baldwin, founder of legal data company Entegrata:
"Cleary Gottlieb Signs with Entegrata to Power Innovation Program
"Entegrata today announced that Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP has selected its data lakehouse platform to power the firm's innovation program. Cleary is the first firm to deploy Entegrata's knowledge lake, a purpose-built data foundation that delivers firm intelligence across innovation, marketing, and business development, turning siloed data into actionable insights that scale firmwide as the firm's data strategy matures.
"Cleary has a first-mover advantage on AI, from its award-winning deployment of AI within eDiscovery, to establishing its own ALSP ClearyX, acquiring generative AI developer Springbok, deploying Legora firmwide, and building out a dedicated practice innovation team.
"Entegrata's knowledge lake gives Cleary’s investments a unified data foundation, connecting key systems and delivering the structured, accessible data layer that turns client service, and innovation ambition into actionable execution.
"With Cleary's addition, Entegrata continues to expand among the global firms building AI-ready data architectures. To learn more, visit www.entegrata.com."
Heartiest congratulations to Tom and his team on this customer win.
◾ On the first day of NYC Legalweek, Legaltech News (LTN) reports on a product development from Debevoise (yes, a legal tech product development from a law firm) and on that firm's partnering with Legora in connection with that product roll-out. From the LTN post:
"Many Big Law firms fear the erosion of the billable hour, but Debevoise & Plimpton is doubling down on an alternative billing model it pioneered for some artificial intelligence implementation work.
"On Monday [March 9, 2026],the firm announced the launch of STAAR 2.0, the second version of its subscription-based AI adoption advisory offering for clients, which was built in collaboration with legal AI company Legora.The platform is currently in a beta testing period that will run through the end of August, which features participation from a select group of clients including Blackstone, Capital One, Evercore, GSK and New York Life."
Read all of LTN's post here: https://www.law.com/legaltechnews/2026/03/09/debevoise-partners-with-legora-on-2nd-iteration-of-subscription-based-ai-advisory-offering/?kw=Debevoise+Partners+With+Legora+on+2nd+Iteration+of+Subscription-Based+AI+Advisory+Offering&utm_position=1&utm_source=email&utm_medium=enl&utm_campaign=morningupdate&utm_content=20260309&utm_term=ltn&oly_enc_id=6788E2252056B4A&user_id=5a62392218ff43ec508b502b&slreturn=20260309084814
Startup Management
◾ a16z has a post. Today, March 2, 2026, on the "Will GenAI kill SaaS" debate. The a16z piece is captioned: "Good News: AI Will Eat Application Software." What caught my eye in particurlar, however, is the sub-caption, which adds, "But the moats that built the great software companies aren't going anywhere."
Read the entire post (at the link below) for an excellent discussion of those moats (plus a lot more excellent thinking). Why, the post even calls out both Harvey (where a16z is a major investor) and vLex by name.
From the post:
"And perhaps the strongest moat of all in this new era is process power—or as George Sivulka of Hebbia calls it, “process engineering.” Application software can be thought of as a stored process—it encodes opinions about how the function of an organization should operate, and those opinions calcify over years and decades of use into something that is inseparable from the organization itself. Successful app software companies are the ones that co-evolve with their clients around these workflows. As those workflows penetrate ever-deeper into an organization, process engineering only becomes more important. And more difficult for challengers to replicate.
"Consider Harvey. If Harvey deeply understands how a particular law firm structures its work—the templates, the review processes, the institutional preferences, the way a specific partner likes her memos done—there is simply no way a new entrant can replicate that overnight, even with the cost of code being zero. That kind of embedded workflow knowledge becomes more powerful, not less, as software moves from a system of record to a system of action, because you can just do much more with that knowledge. So as the underlying models improve, Harvey’s orchestration layer—the scaffolding that routes model output through specific professional workflows—compound in value. Better models don’t make the application layer thinner: they make it more capable, because the hard part was never raw intelligence. It was knowing what to do with it."
Here's the link to the post: https://www.a16z.news/p/good-news-ai-will-eat-application?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0748342b-d9fb-4f3d-9f84-5713e462d3fe_1460x650.png&open=false
◾ Do read this Legaltech News (LTN) interview of Theresa Spartichino, director of practice technology at Ropes & Gray. Read it not only because Theresa is one of the winners of this year’s Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law, Monica Bay Women of Legal Tech Award (congrats, Theresa), but most importantly, because what Theresa has to say about law firm legal tech adoption and implementation is essential know-how for legal tech startup leaders.
From the LTN interview: ". . . innovation should augment attorney expertise, not displace it. Our focus is pairing experienced judgment with intuitive tools that reduce variance, raise quality, and scale best practices. When attorneys see that technology helps them deliver better work, faster, and that it’s defensible and easy to use, adoption follows. In short, the driver is clear, client-aligned value delivered through collaborative, governed, and practice-fit solutions, grounded in human-centered, data-informed methods that translate ideas into durable, firmwide change."
https://www.law.com/legaltechnews/2026/03/02/ropes--grays-director-of-practice-tech-firms-struggle-with-operationalizing-good-ideas-at-scale-/?kw=Ropes+%26+Gray%27s+Director+of+Practice+Tech:+Firms+Struggle+With+Operationalizing+%26lsquo;Good+Ideas+at+Scale%27&utm_position=2&utm_source=email&utm_medium=enl&utm_campaign=morningupdate&utm_content=20260303&utm_term=ltn&oly_enc_id=6788E2252056B4A&user_id=5a62392218ff43ec508b502b
◾ Contract IQ company, Ivo, appears to be on a bit of a tear, as reported in this post from Artificial Lawyer (AL):
"Ivo, the San Francisco-based contract intelligence platform for inhouse teams, is opening new offices in London and New York, as it also reports 6x-ing its revenue…. in 12 months…!
"The company, which first started in New Zealand, noted that the growth follows a very recent $55m funding round. They also plan to triple headcount to 180 employees, and have bagged customers such as Uber and IBM along the way already."
Read the entire AL post at this link: https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2026/03/05/ivo-6xs-revenue-opens-in-london-ny/
Teaching/Learning Legal Tech
◾ The first paragraph in this essay by Judge Scott Schlegel says it all (and well).
"Should state bars, in coordination with their state Supreme Courts, require a mandatory one-hour CLE on artificial intelligence fundamentals for every licensed lawyer?"
The remainder of the essay explains, very persuasively, I might add, why the answer is "yes."
Is the suggested one-hour CLE approach a "silver bullet" to kill off hallucinated citations in court filings in the US? No, of course not. But it's a damn good piece of ammunition to add to the arsenal.
Read the essay here (and then, if you agree with the essay's thesis, start promoting it): https://judgeschlegel.substack.com/p/nearly-one-thousand-cases-later-is?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1176023&post_id=189729151&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1cv2&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
◾ Legaltech News (LTN) has a post surveying efforts by law schools, law firms, bar associations, and other law-related organizations to increase the tech literacy of legal professionals. While increasing this literacy can be achieved through simple exposure to legal tech software, "mere" exposure isn't enough; it should be supplemented by more formal training. And the ROI of that more formal training is high enough to warrant the time and money invested.
Do read the LTN post here: https://www.law.com/legaltechnews/2026/03/05/new-ai-education-programs-abound-as-legal-strives-for-tech-literacy/?kw=New+AI+Education+Programs+Abound+as+Legal+Strives+for+Tech+Literacy&utm_position=1&utm_source=email&utm_medium=enl&utm_campaign=morningupdate&utm_content=20260306&utm_term=ltn&oly_enc_id=6788E2252056B4A&user_id=5a62392218ff43ec508b502b&slreturn=20260306094248
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