LEGAL LOLZ NEWSLETTER

Hello fellow Legal Eagles and coffee junkies,

Your weekly dose of legal absurdity, courtroom chaos, and mandatory fun is here. Today's agenda includes sarcasm, strong opinions, and the first-ever Algorithmic Bar Awards.

Time to render a verdict. ⚖️😂

MOTION TO NOMINATE THE BEST LEGAL AI OF 2026

Oral argument scheduled: Now through January 31

It's January 2026. You've spent the last 12 months watching legal AI tools multiply like discovery requests in a securities class action. Some delivered. Some disappointed. Some made you question your faith in technology entirely.

Now it's time to render a verdict.

Legal LOLz is hosting The Algorithmic Bar Awards (ABAs) 2026 — our inaugural "legal tech oscars" honoring the legal AI platforms that practitioners found genuinely useful in 2025.

This isn't vendor marketing. This isn't analyst rankings. This is peer-reviewed recognition from attorneys and their legal operations colleagues, the people who actually used these tools to practice law.

If you:

Used AI for legal research and didn't want to throw your laptop
Let an AI review contracts and it actually caught something useful
Tried an AI writing assistant that improved your work product
Deployed a client intake bot that didn't make clients flee in terror
Had any other AI experience (positive, negative, or hilariously chaotic)

Then we need your nominations.

THE DEAL

Nominate the single legal AI tool you loved most. In exchange: Every eligible voter (i.e. a legal professional, not a vendor) gets 3 months FREE access to Legal LOLz Unfiltered, our premium publication with unfiltered legal tech reviews, career strategy, and the content too spicy for the regular newsletter. See more info below.

No credit card. No vendor spam. Just cast your votes in the form below.

THE TIMELINE

Nominations close: January 31

Winners announced: in the following week's issue (early February)

Your Unfiltered access: within 48 hours of vote closing (early February)

SUBMIT YOUR NOMINATION

(a 3-minute form)

THE FINE PRINT

This is a user-nomination survey, not a scientific study. We're collecting nominations from legal professionals who actually used these tools in practice. Legal tech vendor employees, please sit this one out, your marketing decks don't count as "user experience."

All responses are confidential. We'll publish aggregate results and winning platforms, your individual horror stories (and love letters) remain anonymous unless you explicitly tell us otherwise.

Winners will be determined based on validated practitioner nominations.

Vote now. Get Unfiltered. Help us crown the winner.

Walter, Editor-in-Law
Still not disbarred. Yet.

P.S. If you're reading this and thinking "I haven't tried any legal AI tools yet," you're not alone - half the profession is still figuring this out.

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