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3 weeks ago | 
abajournal.com | Victor Li
Law firms acquire or merge with one another all the time. But when it comes to technology companies, firms usually keep it in-house or enter into a partnership with an outside vendor. They rarely go ahead and just buy a tech company. So when Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton announced in March that it had acquired artificial intelligence product developers Springbok AI, it made headlines.
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1 month ago | 
abajournal.com | Victor Li
"May you live in interesting times." For immigration lawyers, that old proverb is now a reality. Ever since the start of the second Trump administration, immigration lawyers have been busier than ever.
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1 month ago | 
lawnext.com | Robert Ambrogi |Bob Ambrogi |Victor Li
Legaltech Week, the show where a panel of journalists discusses the top stories of the week in legal tech and legal innovation, is back today, live at 3 p.m. E.T.If you haven’t already, you can sign up free here to attend. Register once and you are signed up for all future sessions. You can also catch prior episodesas a podcast or on YouTube. Among the stories we plan to cover today:Our panelists’ post-mortem thoughts on ABA Techshow, which marked its 40th anniversary this year.
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2 months ago | 
abajournal.com | Victor Li
Home Web First 40 years of ABA Techshow: Past chairs reflect… ABA Techshow 40 years of ABA Techshow: Past chairs reflect on evolution of technology The more things change, the more they stay the same. As the landmark 40th annual ABA Techshow wrapped up in Chicago on Saturday morning, 14 former Techshow chairs reflected on how much technology has changed and evolved over the years—and how much it has not. Using a similar format to the popular “60 in 60” session, the various former chairs...
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2 months ago | 
abajournal.com | Victor Li
ABA Techshow 2025 will be a historic one for a couple of reasons. For one thing, it marks the 40th annual iteration of the show. For another, it promises to be the biggest of all time—emanating for the first time from the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago. In this episode of the Legal Rebels Podcast, Techshow co-chair Stephen Embry talks to the ABA Journal’s Victor Li about what to expect from this year’s show.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
lawnext.com | Robert Ambrogi |Bob Ambrogi |Victor Li |Jill Wellington
Join us live today at 3 p.m. ET for Legaltech Week, the show where a panel of journalists discusses the top stories of the week in legal tech and legal innovation. If you haven’t already, you can sign up free here to attend. Register once and you are signed up for all future sessions. You can also catch prior episodesas a podcast or on YouTube. Among the stories we plan to cover today:A $300M raise for legal AI startup Harvey.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
abajournal.com | Victor Li
It’s a well-worn saying that the law always lags behind technology. It makes sense. We all remember the old song about how a bill becomes a law and how long the whole process can take. By the time you get to the verse about a president signing something into law, technology has either evolved into something even more cutting edge or become obsolete—replaced by a newer, shinier toy.
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Jan 27, 2025 | 
abajournal.com | Victor Li
Home Magazine 2025 Legal Rebels: Rebels Without a Pause Features 2025 Legal Rebels: Rebels Without a Pause For last year’s class of Legal Rebels, we did something unprecedented, highlighting a groundbreaking and industry-changing piece of technology and chronicling how it was already upending multiple areas of the law. (See “Game Changing,” February-March 2024, page 36.) This year, it’s back to normal—or as normal as things can be for an annual feature honoring people who are changing the...
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
superjumpmagazine.com | Victor Li
There are a lot of emotions that go into a Game Over screen. Maybe we’re frustrated — we’re mad that we lost or failed whatever task that got us to this screen. Maybe we’re apathetic because we know we’ll have to wait a while before we can get back into the action. They get wrapped up in each other so tightly that it’s hard to pick them out, but we know the feeling of losing because it’s a near-universal constant across all genres of video games.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
abajournal.com | Victor Li
Welcome to 2025! The ABA Journal's Legal Rebels Podcast is not usually in the business of making prognostications. Let’s face it: If we were, we’d be playing the lottery or putting bets on sports games and the stock market and not doing this. But it seems like a safe prediction to say generative artificial intelligence will dominate 2025—just like it did in 2024. If last year was when generative AI went mainstream, could this year be the one when it gets even bigger?
