Legaltech Hub

To get ahead of a possible transaction in the coming years, Legaltech Hub brought in Zuva to pre-screen our contracts for the kinds of issues that come up in M&A diligence. The aim was to find anything worth attention now, while there is room to deal with it on our own schedule. 

Every long AI conversation eventually loses its edge—answers drift, contradictions creep in, and the model starts sounding less anchored to the documents in front of it. At that point a reset is sometimes the right move, but only if it's done well. This piece looks at the signs that mean it's time to start fresh, when to keep going instead, and what goes into the next chat.

Research shows that 80% of matters go over budget. Legal departments that intend to be compliant with their 2027 outside counsel budgets are using 2026 to move practice areas off hourly pricing, one RFP at a time. The departments that retain the hourly structure and attempt to manage their way to a different outcome will continue to produce the result that structure has always produced, and matter budgets will continue to be broken.