Docket & Device
The record on legal tech, for the people who sign the check.
The independent buyer's record for legal technology — five categories, thirty tools, every claim traced to a source or marked UNVERIFIED.
CATEGORIES: 5
TOOLS EXAMINED: 30
VENDOR MONEY: $0
Filed
Latest dispatches
| Dkt. No. | Entry | Section | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| COR-001-D1 | The AI Legal Research Hype Audit: Jude Law, $11 Billion, and What Lawyers Actually Say Verdict: Overhyped. The products work — for big firms, on big budgets. The noise around them doesn't match what the people holding the seats report. | Dispatch | Filed |
| COR-001-D2 | Influencer vs. The People: Legal Tech Edition The pitch: Legal tech vendors aren't buying billboards — they're buying creator reels, sponsored editorial walkthroughs, and fivestar review averages with the… | Dispatch | Filed |
| COR-001-D3 | Four Bets on Legal Tech: Through March 2027 Legal tech is having its loudest year and its least trusted one at the same time. | Dispatch | Filed |
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Open the Clio Draft recordStart with the guides
| Dkt. No. | Entry | Section | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| COR-001-G1 | Legal Tech, From Zero: A Beginner's Guide for Lawyers Who'd Rather Be Practicing So you're the person in your firm who got handed the "look into legal tech" assignment. Welcome. | Guide | Filed |
| COR-001-G2 | AI Legal Research: The Honest Category Review AI legal research is where lawyers stopped asking whether to use AI and started asking which database to trust with their bar card. | Guide | Filed |
| COR-001-G3 | Contract CLM: The Honest Category Review Contract lifecycle management is what inhouse legal teams buy when the contracting process breaks before the contracts do — drafting, approval routing,… | Guide | Filed |
| COR-001-G4 | Document Automation: The Honest Category Review Document automation is what buys back the hours lawyers spend retyping the same documents: template assembly, client intake questionnaires, courtform… | Guide | Filed |
Browse the library
| Dkt. No. | Entry | Section | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| COR-001-L1 | AI Legal Research Six tools, compared head-to-head. | Library | Filed |
| COR-001-L2 | Contract Review / CLM Six tools, compared head-to-head. | Library | Filed |
| COR-001-L3 | E-Discovery Six tools, compared head-to-head. | Library | Filed |
| COR-001-L4 | Document Automation Six tools, compared head-to-head. | Library | Filed |
| COR-001-L5 | Practice Management Six tools, compared head-to-head. | Library | Filed |
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