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The People vs. PACER: How Free Law Project Is Building the Open-Source Infrastructure to Make Court Records Free

PACER charges ten cents a page for public court records and generates $150 million per year in fees. A $125 million class-action settlement for overcharging remains unpaid after appeal. Meanwhile, Free Law Project has spent fifteen years building the open-source alternative -- CourtListener, RECAP, an AI citator, and a new Litigant Portal launching this fall.

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The AI Adoption Inflection Point: How Legal Technology Crossed from Experimentation to Infrastructure in 2026

Between 2025 and 2026, generative AI adoption among legal professionals more than doubled — from 31% to 69%. The data marks a true inflection point, but with 54% of firms providing no AI training and 43% lacking any formal policy, the gap between individual enthusiasm and institutional readiness is the defining challenge of legal tech in 2026.

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Relativity Files for IPO: Inside the First Legal Tech Public Offering Since 2021 and What It Means for Every Litigation Team

Relativity's confidential S-1 filing on March 19, 2026 signals the first legal tech IPO since DISCO's bruising 2021 debut. With a ~$4B valuation, 300,000+ users, and an expanding AI product suite, the eDiscovery giant's public market bet will set the valuation benchmark for every competitor from Everlaw to Harvey.

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The Billion-Dollar Legal AI Arms Race: Harvey's $11B, Legora's $5.5B, and the Record Capital Surge Rewriting Litigation Technology

In March 2026 alone, Harvey raised $200M at an $11B valuation and Legora raised $550M at $5.55B -- while Q1 2026 shattered all-time VC records with $242B in AI funding. Here's what the record-shattering legal AI capital surge means for every eDiscovery vendor, litigation team, and law firm technology budget.

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From the Bench to the Brief: 61% of Federal Judges Are Using AI -- and It's Raising the Bar for What Courts Expect from Litigators

A landmark Northwestern-NYC Bar study reveals that most federal judges have adopted AI tools, yet training gaps and policy fragmentation persist. Meanwhile, courts are splitting on when litigators can -- and cannot -- use AI in discovery. Here's what the data means for every litigation team.

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When AI Talks Back: The Privilege Ruling, the Meeting-Tool Time Bomb, and the ESI Crisis Nobody Planned For

A landmark SDNY ruling declared AI chat logs unprotected by privilege. AI meeting tools are silently generating mountains of discoverable ESI. And most litigation teams have no governance framework to handle any of it. Here's what changed, what it means, and what to do now.

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The Great eDiscovery Price Reset: How Free AI, All-Inclusive Pricing, and Cloud Competition Are Finally Making Justice Affordable

Relativity and Everlaw just made GenAI document review free. DISCO collapsed its entire platform into a single per-GB fee. Processing costs have fallen 90% in a decade. After years of entrenched gatekeeping, the eDiscovery pricing model is finally breaking -- and the implications for legal affordability are profound.

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From TAR to GenAI: How Acquisitions, Agentic AI, and 96% Recall Are Rewriting the Rules of Document Review

HaystackID's acquisition of eDiscovery AI, DISCO's agentic Cecilia platform, and Relativity's GenAI-standard cloud push signal a tectonic shift: generative AI is replacing TAR as the backbone of document review, with recall rates above 90% and review speeds measured in millions of documents per day.

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The Disappearing Evidence Crisis: How Ephemeral Messaging Is Rewriting the Rules of eDiscovery

From Google's sanctioned chat deletions to $2.8 billion in SEC fines for off-channel communications, ephemeral messaging has become litigation's most dangerous blind spot. Here's what every litigation team needs to know about preserving evidence that's designed to vanish.