For UK firms, a new matter cannot begin until the client's identity has been verified. Anti-Money Laundering (AML) obligations and Know Your Business (KYB) checks have to clear before a single substantive hour is billed. It's necessary. For most firms, it's also the slowest and most disconnected part of taking on new business. The problem isn't the checks themselves. It's...

Research has one non-negotiable requirement: a lawyer has to be able to point at the source. Lito now verifies case citations by routing legal research questions to Midpage, an AI native legal research platform built on verified US caselaw. When a lawyer enables Midpage in Lito, answers come back with hyperlinked citations that open the source opinion, with the relevant...

Summary Late-stage transaction changes can create outsized risk when a revised party name, date, or defined term must carry consistently across a closing set. Litera helps teams manage this work through connected legal technology that keeps document workflows, transaction context, and version history aligned. TL;DR Through the Transact and Office & Dragons integration...

Summary For COOs, CMOs, CBDOs, BD Directors, and Managing Partners, growth is often described as shared responsibility. In practice, a small group of leaders carry accountability for results without direct authority over the partner behaviors that produce them. This article defines that structural problem as the authority gap and explains how firms can close it with better...

AI is changing the economics of legal work faster than most law firms can reprice it. For law firm pricing, finance, and financial operations teams, the issue is not only that AI makes lawyers faster. It is that hourly billing converts that speed into lower revenue unless the firm has the data, discipline, and workflow visibility to price predictable work differently. This...