Nick Huber

Nick Huber

NIck Huber is a freelance technology journalist.

Contributed Articles

In-house legal departments underestimate how much AI will change their role - Gartner analyst

Corporate legal departments need to reinvent themselves in response to AI, flat and declining budgets and increasing workloads, a Gartner analyst says

27 Jul 2026

Legaltech charity TCLP releases free AI tool to automate drafting of environmental clauses

Legal AI and AI chatbots can access open-source library of sustainability clauses built by the Chancery Lane Project

17 Jul 2026

‘We wanted to be in control of our destiny’: Setfords builds its own case and practice management platform

UK’s largest ‘platform’ law firm has moved all 650 of its consultant lawyers onto its own tech platform

13 Jul 2026

Barnes & Thornburg selects 38 lawyers as firm’s AI ‘champions’

The lawyers will promote AI technology in areas including M&A, litigation, bankruptcy and intellectual property

7 Jul 2026

‘If you take a crap process and put AI on top of it, it will still be crap’: LegalTechTalk speakers reflect on the Gen AI boom

Nick Huber detects a mood of excitement and anxiety at last week’s LegalTechTalk conference in London

24 Jun 2026

UK government launches legal AI scheme

Artificial intelligence labs aims to encourage innovation in booming legaltech sector, modernise the legal sector, expand access to justice and boost economic growth

15 Jun 2026

Kirkland co-builds AI platform with tech firm Palantir

World’s largest law firm has co-developed AI technology to support its private equity clients with fundraising

8 Jun 2026

In-house legaltech budgets to double worldwide by 2028 amid AI boom, Gartner predicts

Companies are increasing spending on legal AI software to boost productivity, cut spend and possibly headcount, Gartner says

1 Jun 2026

Anthropic’s expansion of legal AI tools is good for lawyers, experts say

The 12 new legal tools in the Claude AI software that can connect to 20 legaltech suppliers are described as an ‘inflection point’ for legaltech market

26 May 2026

Linklaters aims to solve ‘otherwise intractable’ challenges for clients with AI-focused legaltech team

Data scientists and lawyers team up to develop ‘customised AI workflows and tools’

18 May 2026