Filevine wins for PI and mass tort shops running high matter volume. CARET Legal wins when your accounting team needs to live inside the same platform as your litigators. Both platforms spent 2024 and early 2025 shipping AI features fast enough that any review from...
MyCase and Smokeball have both restructured pricing and bolted on AI features since 2025. For solos and small firms, the choice comes down to one question: do you bill hours around documents, or around clients? Both tools are legitimate practice management platforms....
The money tells you what’s getting built. Here’s what the 2025–2026 LegalTech funding rounds actually signal for solo and small-firm lawyers — and why you’ll probably wait 18 months and pay more for it. LegalTech funding hit another loud cycle in...
Fourteen state bars have now issued formal ethics opinions on AI tool use by lawyers — and if you read them side by side, a clear operational checklist falls out. The opinions span California, New York, Florida, Texas, the District of Columbia, Illinois, New Jersey,...
Seven prompts, tested against real demand letter workflows — here’s what each one does, where to adjust it, and the one rule that applies to every citation it produces. Demand letters are high-stakes but formulaic enough that AI models can carry a significant...
These ten Claude prompts cut the mechanical slog out of discovery review — first-pass sorting, privilege flagging, chronology building — so attorneys can spend their time on the calls only they can make. Discovery document review eats hours that small firms...
You probably already own everything you need to run a defensible deadline system — the gap is the workflow connecting them. This workflow is for solo lawyers and firms of two to five attorneys who are already paying for Google Calendar or Outlook, some flavor of...
Automated client updates save 15–30 minutes per matter per week on routine status emails — but the setup has more decision points than any of the three vendors advertise, and the human approval step is where most small firms either win or lose the time savings...
A conflict check should take 90 seconds, not 15 minutes of scrolling through a spreadsheet you haven’t updated since March. Here’s an AI-augmented intake workflow that runs the check in real time, shows you the prompt, and tells you exactly where it will...
Briefpoint does one thing — drafting discovery — and it does it well enough that a solo civil litigator handling ten active matters will notice the time difference within the first week. Briefpoint sits in a narrow lane: AI-assisted drafting of interrogatories,... 
