The Most Innovative Law Schools (2025) — from abovethelaw.com by Staci Zaretsky
Forget dusty casebooks — today’s leaders in legal education are using AI, design thinking, and real-world labs to reinvent how law is taught.
“[F]rom AI labs and interdisciplinary centers to data-driven reform and bold new approaches to design and client service,” according to National Jurist’s preLaw Magazine, these are the law schools that “exemplify innovation in action.”
- North Carolina Central University School of Law
- Suffolk University Law School
- UC Berkeley School of Law
- Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law
- Northeastern University School of Law
- Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University
- Seattle University School of Law
- Case Western Reserve University School of Law
- University of Miami School of Law
- Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University
- Vanderbilt University Law School
- Southwestern Law School
Click here to read short summaries of why each school made this year’s list of top innovators.
Clio’s Metamorphosis: From Practice Management To A Comprehensive AI And Law Practice Provider — from abovethelaw.com by Stephen Embry
Clio is no longer a practice management company. It’s much more of a comprehensive provider of all needs of its customers big and small.
Newton delivered what may have been the most consequential keynote in the company’s history and one that signals a shift by Clio from a traditional practice management provider to a comprehensive platform that essentially does everything for the business and practice of law.
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Clio also earlier this year acquired vLex, the heavy-duty AI legal research player. The acquisition is pending regulatory approval. It is the vLex acquisition that is powering the Clio transformation that Newton described in his keynote.
vLex has a huge amount of legal data in its wheelhouse to power sophisticated legal AI research. On top of this data, vLex developed Vincent, a powerful AI tool to work with this data and enable all sorts of actions and work.
This means a couple of things. First, by acquiring vLex, Clio can now offer its customers AI legal research tools. Clio customers will no longer have to go one place for its practice management needs and a second place for its substantive legal work, like research. It makes what Clio can provide much more comprehensive and all inclusive.
‘Adventures In Legal Tech’: How AI Is Changing Law Firms — from abovethelaw.com
Ernie the Attorney shares his legal tech takes.
Artificial intelligence will give solos and small firms “a huge advantage,” according to one legal tech consultant.
In this episode of “Adventures in Legal Tech,” host Jared Correia speaks with Ernie Svenson — aka “Ernie the Attorney” — about the psychology behind resistance to change, how law firms are positioning their AI use, the power of technology for business development, and more.
Legal software: how to look for and compare AI in legal technology — from legal.thomsonreuters.com by Chris O’Leary
Highlights
- Legal ops experts can categorize legal AI platforms and software by the ability to streamline key tasks such as legal research, document processing or analysis, and drafting.
- The trustworthiness and accuracy of AI hinge on the quality of its underlying data; solutions like CoCounsel Legal are grounded in authoritative, expert-verified content from Westlaw and Practical Law, unlike providers that may rely on siloed or less reliable databases.
- When evaluating legal software, firms should use a framework that assesses critical factors such as integration with existing tech stacks, security, scalability, user adoption, and vendor reputation.
ASU Law appoints a director of AI and Legal Tech Studio, advancing its initiative to reimagine legal education — from law.asu.edu
The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University appointed Sean Harrington as director of the newly established AI and Legal Tech Studio, a key milestone in ASU Law’s bold initiative to reimagine legal education for the artificial intelligence era. ASU, ranked No. 1 in innovation for the 11th consecutive year, drives AI solutions that enhance teaching, enrich student training and facilitate digital transformation.
The American Legal Technology Awards Name 2025 Winners — from natlawreview.com by Tom Martin
The sixth annual American Legal Technology Awards were presented on Wednesday, October 15th, at Suffolk University Law School (Boston), recognizing winners across ten categories. There were 211 nominees who were evaluated by 27 judges.
The honorees on the night included: