The 2026 Summer Reading List for Legal and Government Leaders

Newly appointed Casepoint CEO Paul Colangelo shares the leadership principle that has guided his career: one of the greatest gifts you can give someone is your time. He reflects on building trust through accessibility, follow-through, coaching, and a culture where people feel heard and equipped to succeed.

AI expectations are high, but many organizations still lack a clear path from awareness to safe, practical implementation. This blog examines why legal teams often move forward without IT involvement and makes the case for proof-of-concept projects that give teams a more controlled way to test governance, data readiness, and real-world use cases.

Unauthorized AI use is no longer a fringe concern: surveys cited in this piece show employees and legal professionals regularly using tools their organizations have not approved. The blog also examines a federal court privilege ruling and breaks down the different risks posed by consumer chatbots, enterprise AI tools, and AI integrated into legal workflows.

AI conversation had moved past broad experimentation and toward harder questions about governance and adoption. This conference recap looks at why buyers are increasingly skeptical of “AI glitter,” how legal ops is speaking more directly to finance, and why change management is becoming central to successful deployment.

As legal teams grow, disconnected tools and manual processes can turn everyday operational decisions into a constant scramble. Featuring Elastic Legal Operations Manager Midori Vasquez, this webinar examines where traditional models break down and how teams can improve control across matters, data, risk, speed, and cost.

For legal and investigative teams, GenAI can feel more like a strategic mandate than a practical tool. This webinar uses live demonstrations to show how teams can surface key facts, identify themes, summarize large document sets, and uncover connections without rebuilding their existing workflows.

A Fortune 100 defense contractor faced a high-pressure compliance matter involving CUI, an accelerated timeline, and a migration that expanded from 1 TB to 6.7 TB. The case study follows a legal team already frustrated by poor prior vendor experiences as it navigated duplicate data, multiple review groups, and little tolerance for another delay.

The Department of War awarded Casepoint an exclusive $98.8 million BPA supporting DOW OGC, DISA OGC, and 28 DLSA offices. The announcement details how the agreement creates a faster path to secure eDiscovery, investigations, FOIA, legal hold, and other mission-critical work involving sensitive and classified data.

FOIA programs are under pressure from rising request volumes, increasingly complex records, aging systems, and strict response obligations. This webinar looks at practical AI applications across intake, duplicate-request identification, review, redaction, and audit-ready reporting while keeping security and defensibility in view.

Federal FOIA teams are processing more requests and beginning to test AI, yet backlogs persist as rising demand, aging cases, staffing losses, litigation, and fragmented technology consume capacity. Drawing on 68 Chief FOIA Officer Reports, this whitepaper maps where agencies are gaining ground, where pressure is building, and what modernization will require.

Security claims are common in the FOIA technology market, but independently verifiable proof is far harder to find. This report compares 17 providers against five recognized security standards, showing how quickly the field narrows when agencies look for authorizations suited to sensitive records, CUI, and mission-critical workloads.