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September 10, 2026

AI adoption is climbing. Confidence in law firm AI governance hasn’t. Here’s the gap.

Legal
Intapp Celeste
Intapp Walls

AI adoption is accelerating at law firms. Confidence in governance controls isn't keeping pace. Here's why AI governance before deployment matters.

September 9, 2026

Teaching AI your firm’s language: How ontologies reduce hallucinations and drive down token consumption

Investment banking
Private capital
Intapp Celeste
Intapp DealCloud

Nikolaus Grefe

Director, AI and Data

Without a firm-specific ontology, AI guesses at your data — and gets it wrong. Learn how private capital firms and investment banks reduce hallucinations and cut token costs with Intapp DealCloud.

September 8, 2026

Your people got faster. Your firm’s economics didn’t.

Consulting
Intapp Celeste

Samantha Crespi

Director, Value Engineering

92% of professionals use AI, but only a third of firms have made it part of how they run. Firm AI, powered by Intapp Celeste, closes the gap between individual speed and how the firm competes — across engagements, client development, and risk.

September 2, 2026

Compliance used to be a cost center. The best firms are running it like a competitive advantage.

Legal
Intapp Celeste
Intapp Compliance
Intapp Conflicts
Intapp Intake
Intapp Terms

Build compliance as a competitive advantage. See how automation frees your team from routine intake and creates institutional knowledge competitors can't replicate.

September 1, 2026

The outside counsel billing arms race: Why your OCG controls are breaking down

Your inside counsel team is deploying AI to scrutinize outside counsel bills. They’ve set up automated compliance tools that flag every deviation from your guidelines […]

September 1, 2026

The three hidden gaps in your ethical walls

Your firm has ethical walls. They’re documented. You run conflict checks before opening matters. You’ve trained the team on information barriers. You believe the screen […]

September 1, 2026

Your analyst isn’t the bottleneck. Your process is.

Kareen Tan

Value Engineer

For law firms, AI conflicts clearance should be a competitive advantage. Instead, a conflicts analyst at a mid-size firm spends hours clearing a single matter. […]

August 26, 2026

A risk maturity roadmap for compliance for consulting firms

Maria Volokh

Practice Group Leader, Accounting and Consulting

Ask most consulting firm leaders whether their firm manages risk well, and most will say yes. Ask whether they could prove it to a client […]

August 24, 2026

How leading consulting firms turn risk intelligence into a growth advantage

Maria Volokh

Practice Group Leader, Accounting and Consulting

The consulting firm that can say yes or no faster than its peers wins the engagement, the relationship, and the premium – and most firms […]

August 24, 2026

The revenue your firm already earned and why some of it keeps disappearing.

Profit per lawyer across the Am Law 100 is up more than 50% over the past five years, according to Thomson Reuters’ State of the […]

August 19, 2026

Intapp Compliance with Celeste: Accept more business, faster — without increasing risk

As firms grow through lateral hiring, private capital investment, and M&A and geographic expansion, the volume of new business rises — and so does the compliance […]

August 19, 2026

Make every matter more profitable with Intapp Time with Celeste

Intapp Time re-architected with Intapp Celeste and agentic workflows is now available. Agentic AI makes capturing every hour effortless for timekeepers while protecting earned revenue […]

August 18, 2026

Why the age of agentic AI is the age of the ecosystem

Sebastian Hartmann

Vice President of Alliances and Partners

Professional firms are expanding their use of AI, adopting specialized “Practice AI” tools for everything from research and drafting to financial analysis and origination. These tools make individuals faster, but they don’t help run the firm itself. We’re now entering the age of agentic AI, and things are changing. With the right infrastructure and partner ecosystem in place, firms can connect their tools and use agentic AI coworkers to run operational work – compliantly – across the entire firm.

August 17, 2026

The real cost of building your own compliance

Most law firms don’t set out to build a compliance platform. It starts with a general-purpose AI tool pointed at conflicts, a script someone wrote […]

August 11, 2026

Firm AI Principle 7: The firm’s memory and methods are the moat.

In our final installment of the Firm AI Principles series, we discuss what truly differentiates a firm and gives it competitive advantage: its collective experience […]

August 11, 2026

How to scale AI without scaling risk

Chris Wada

SVP, GM Compliance Solutions

With AI, professional firms are getting work done faster than ever before. But as firms give AI greater responsibility, they're also incurring exponentially greater compliance risk. Unlike other technologies, agentic AI doesn’t just help professionals complete tasks — it performs work on their behalf. This substantially increases efficiency, but it also means that a single mistake might be repeated hundreds or even thousands of times before anyone notices.

August 10, 2026

What blocks private capital firms from scaling AI?

The private capital firms pulling ahead have one thing in common: They’ve embedded Firm AI throughout the deal lifecycle. Designed for private capital, Firm AI […]

August 6, 2026

Why building your own AI governance is the wrong bet

When AI tools started arriving in law firms, a reasonable question followed: do we need to buy a governance layer, or can we build one […]

August 5, 2026

Firm AI Principle 6: Professional compliance is the substrate. Trust is what gets built on top of it.

Professional services firms have unique ethical and regulatory obligations that govern how business must be conducted. Not meeting those obligations is one of the greatest […]

August 3, 2026

How Firm AI is changing the way professional firms operate and compete

Nikolaus Grefe

Director, AI and Data

Professional firms are navigating a pivotal moment. AI is everywhere, and the pressure to adopt it quickly, confidently, and in a way that doesn't create new risk has never been more intense. But not all AI is created equal. We spoke with Nikolaus Grefe, Director, AI and Data at Intapp, about what separates Firm AI, built for the business of the firm, from generic AI built for individuals. We also explored what it takes to successfully scale Firm AI, and how firms using technology built on Firm AI will compete differently from those that don't.

July 29, 2026

The firms winning the most business aren’t the ones pitching hardest.

The firms pulling ahead in business development right now aren’t outpitching their competitors. They’re out-knowing them. They know which client relationships are cooling before the […]

July 27, 2026

Firm AI Principle 5: Coworker agents are how the growth gets unlocked.

This week in our series on the principles that Firm AI is built on, we cover the key to unlocking growth in professional and financial […]

July 23, 2026

Intapp now enforces your ethical walls inside Harvey

The Harvey and Intapp integration is now live. The Harvey and Intapp Walls integration is now generally available. Confidentiality risk has been one of the […]

July 23, 2026

Beyond the billable hour: How Firm AI is transforming timekeeping and billing into a strategic advantage

Ken Houseman

VP, GM Time

Timekeeping has always been a necessary administrative burden that pulls lawyers away from the work clients pay for. But the pressures reshaping law firms are turning time capture and its close cousin billing into something far more strategic. We spoke with Ken Houseman, Vice President and General Manager of Intapp Time, to discuss how AI is impacting the legal industry. He shared how Firm AI — a category of AI built for the business of the firm — can transform timekeeping and billing into a competitive advantage by helping firms improve profitability, compliance, and client relationships. Here are the highlights.

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