: By Megan Bradley, Senior Legal Counsel, Docusign. In-house legal teams share some common pressure points: more contracts, more stakeholders, more urgency, all without additional headcount.
: Legatics, the transaction management platform, has joined Harvey’s Connector Library, creating a unified deal experience for lawyers. To explain how it all works and what
: Chinese company Z.ai, which created the GLM models, has launched a legal-specific LLM that has been ‘mid-trained’ and post-trained to handle a range of tasks
: Steno, the AI-enabled court reporting and litigation support company, has launched the open beta of Litigation Genius – see AL TV Product Walk Through below.
: By Paul Walker, Global Solutions Director, iManage. Law firms have always delegated work to those with less experience, lower billing rates, and narrower scope: partners
: We start this week’s Wrap with some surprising data about Grok’s performance on contract review. But first, a quick announcement: Artificial Lawyer is now on
: Legal AI platform August has launched Products, a new feature that helps law firms turn their legal services into…well….products. The idea often has been tried
: Breaking News: Legora has raised a $550 million Series E at an $8.8 billion post-money valuation. The round was led by Atreides Management, with participation
: Legora has just raised $550m with a post-money valuation of $8.8 billion – a huge step by any reckoning. Artificial Lawyer asked CEO, Max Junestrand,
: Legora is seeking to secure its ‘centrality’ within a lawyer’s working life via the strategy of building a large-scale integration ecosystem, (see list below). In
: Inhouse-focused legal AI pioneer, eBrevia, has launched ‘Command’, a contract management platform that ‘helps users understand what’s in their agreements, identify what needs attention and
: Legal Innovators New York, the landmark legal innovation conference on November 17 and 18 in Midtown, can now reveal some of our excellent speakers –
: Microsoft – the software company the world’s lawyers rely upon because of Word – has gone nuclear and launched Copilot for Legal, its own multi-capability
: Microsoft has fully launched itself into the legal vertical with Copilot for Legal, an AI-powered venture with over 20 skills that overlap with plenty of
: Welcome to this week’s Wrap, which starts with the unveiling of our awesome sponsors for the landmark Legal Innovators New York conference in Midtown, on
: Midpage, the AI-native legal research platform that claims to be ‘10X less expensive than Westlaw’s and Lexis’s comparable products,’ and covers much of US case
: On Thursday, October 29 at 12:00 PM ET, 5PM UK – Spellbook’s CEO, Scott Stevenson, and Artificial Lawyer, will be holding a special live webinar: ‘The
: It’s all happening at the moment with legal research…..as Dutch legal publisher, Moonlit, launches Commentaries, a free library of ‘legal commentary drafted directly from primary
: Harvey has announced a $550m funding round at a $15.5B valuation, co-led by Diffusion and Lightspeed Venture Partners. It has also bought San Francisco-based Guardrails
: By Jean-Rémi de Maistre, CEO, Jus Mundi. The legal AI market is converging as general-purpose AI and legal workflow platforms compete to be the interface
: Legora is ramping up its legal research capabilities by offering ‘a full ontology of law and an AI-native citator’. The move follows deals with Qura and
: A major survey by the American Bar Association has found that ‘nearly half of all lawyers (47.4%) screened positive for high burnout, including 15.6% meeting
: Several AI bosses have called for a slowdown in the development of the technology, following agentic experiments that went wrong. Now, Daniel Turgel, a White
: Clio has hired Bridget Mary McCormack, a former Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice, and most recently CEO of the American Arbitration Association (AAA), where she
: Yesterday, ‘Google Legal’ gave an inside look at how Gemini Enterprise can be deployed for lawyers, from everyday prompting, to NotebookLM use, to custom app
: Alongside the launch of Astra for Law, OpenAI has also announced that there are already 26 ‘partner-built plugins’ (see full list below), that help lawyers
: Although a number of legal tech companies use LLM consensus and multiple model strategies already, Pilot5 and its new adversarial Legal AI product specifically taps
: CLM isn’t dead. But it does have a lot of competition….as Spellbook’s Autonomous Contract Management (ACM) capability goes on general release after an initial limited
: Coheso, the legal front door pioneer, has launched Memory, which turns resolved legal requests into institutional knowledge. See AL Interview with CEO, Ned Gannon, below.
: AT&T LegalEdge, the telecom giant’s new inhouse legal agency, is partnering with OpenAI to develop AI-enabled legal workflows. Jason Boehmig, GM Legal Industry at OpenAI,
: We start this week’s Wrap with several chunky news stories, including a new capability jointly built by Harvey and LexisNexis – plus, the announcement that
: Precisely has launched Lexnus, a new CLM platform ‘that takes a fundamentally different approach’ and focuses heavily on a company’s legal policies via playbook creation.