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2026/11/03:
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Hg, the massive private equity fund that owns Litera and has $110 billion in assets under management, along with LLM giant Anthropic, plus some angel
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2026/11/03:
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Microsoft’s new Copilot for Legal is here for the long term and eventually will be available to potentially 100,000s of lawyers worldwide, Legal Vertical leader
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2026/11/03:
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Will law firm partners need to change their professional identity, their sense of what they are and what they really do, for this sector to
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2026/11/02:
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Scissero, an AI-enabled law firm, has told Artificial Lawyer they are seeking to bring aboard talent and assets from Weil Gotshal as the New York
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2026/11/02:
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By Jean-Rémi de Maistre, CEO, Jus Mundi. Arbitrator selection: a consequential decision, a fragmented process Arbitration is a consensual dispute resolution mechanism widely used to
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2026/10/30:
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For Brian Kennedy, Director of Innovation, Real Estate, at BCLP – and who is one of many expert speakers appearing at Legal Innovators UK next
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2026/10/30:
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Breaking News: Harvey has bought Aida, an AI-native sales execution platform founded by Glean co-founder Piyush Prahladka and Atish Das Sarma – which will help
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2026/10/29:
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Some have suggested that Weil’s impending dissolution has been caused by AI’s impact. Artificial Lawyer has got to say: technology is the least of the
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2026/10/29:
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For Emily Bull, Director of Legal, Property, Planning and Consenting at SSE – and a speaker at Legal Innovators UK on Inhouse Day, November 5th,
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2026/10/29:
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By Karen Waldron, LexisNexis. Two of your best associates could review the same client document and reach slightly different recommendations, each reflecting their respective experience
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2026/10/29:
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After the initial launch of Claude for Legal, and as it prepares for its IPO, Anthropic is now pushing deeper into this vertical with Artifacts
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2026/10/23:
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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
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2026/10/22:
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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,
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2026/10/22:
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Legora has just announced its long-awaited new raise and it’s a big one: $550m – classed as a Series E, and with a post-money valuation
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2026/10/22:
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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
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2026/10/22:
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Weil Gotshal & Manges has launched a new training program for some of its summer associates, who will spend their 1L stint working on the
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2026/10/22:
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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
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2026/10/21:
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Ahead of the Legal Innovators New York conference on November 17 and 18, the team spoke to Krychna Baker, Senior Manager of Legal Innovation &
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2026/10/21:
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Transatlantic law firm Womble Bond Dickinson has launched ‘Womble AI Labs’, which will build AI solutions for the firm and its clients. It is led
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2026/10/21:
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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
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2026/10/20:
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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
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2026/10/20:
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By Darsan Guruvayurappan, Co-founder, Lucio AI. Most legal research does not end when the answer is found, it ends when the time runs out. Let
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2026/10/20:
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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
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2026/10/20:
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Legora has formed a partnership with Blue J, the tax data platform – however they stressed to Artificial Lawyer that this did not mean they
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2026/10/19:
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If the AI natives want to compete at scale with Big Law they can’t just focus on speed and price. While the time/value challenge remains,
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2026/10/16:
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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
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2026/10/16:
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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
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2026/10/16:
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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
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2026/10/15:
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Legal Innovators New York, the landmark legal innovation conference on November 17 and 18 in Midtown, can now reveal some of our excellent speakers –
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2026/10/15:
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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
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2026/10/15:
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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
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2026/10/15:
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By Patrick DiDomenico, Founder and CEO, LegalTech Connect. I have been using a phrase in conversations over the past year that I keep coming back
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2026/10/14:
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Leon Johnson, most recently a partner at Goodwin in San Francisco and previously a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, is joining Omnilex, an AI-native law
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2026/10/14:
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Harvey has launched Intake, its new legal front door for the inhouse world, which not only helps to funnel contracts to the right lawyers, but
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2026/10/14:
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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
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2026/10/14:
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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.
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2026/10/13:
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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
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2026/10/13:
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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
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2026/10/13:
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Legora has increased its focus on the inhouse world with the launch of Intake, a legal front door that operates with its agents and which
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2026/10/13:
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Decision systems, such as Jev, as well as the recently launched OpenAI Decisions API, herald a new, but also curiously déjà vu, way of classifying
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2026/10/13:
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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.
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2026/10/12:
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Most major law firms use legal AI tools, yet there has been little significant change to how those firms operate. Why is that? The answer
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2026/10/09:
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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
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2026/10/09:
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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,
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2026/10/09:
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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.
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2026/10/08:
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OpenAI has launched Decisions, its own decision system which will compete with the likes of Jev (see here). It could potentially reduce AI costs for
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2026/10/08:
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Legal Innovators UK, on November 4 and 5 in London at the Minster Building, is right around the corner and Express Registration is now open
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2026/10/08:
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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
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2026/10/08:
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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
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2026/10/07:
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Ivo has launched a super-affordable ‘open-source model for contract work’. Branded as Sage, it was built in partnership with River AI by post-training DeepSeek V4
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2026/10/07:
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Inhouse-focused LawVu has launched Lens, an AI contract analysis tool that gives lawyers visibility across a company’s ‘entire contract portfolio, surfacing risks and obligations before
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2026/10/05:
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Imagine a law firm where the goal is to continually increase the speed of work for the clients by learning from each matter, thus creating
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2026/10/02:
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It’s raining new model law firms! And here is Arceus, which launched this year and has just announced a $17 million fundraise led by Greycroft.
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2026/10/01:
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Opus 2, the pioneering litigation platform, has acquired Bundledocs, the widely-used document bundling system. The move marks the company’s third M&A deal in recent years,
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2026/10/01:
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The waiter led Katie through the busy City restaurant to where the private dining rooms were. Although it was a scheduled lunch with the managing
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2026/10/01:
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Clio has bought Learned Hand, an AI company focused on supporting judges and the courts. The move is part of its wider strategy to build
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2026/09/30:
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Pierson Ferdinand, a new model law firm that has no associates and instead relies of AI platforms such as Harvey to do the heavy lifting,
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2026/09/30:
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By James Tuke, CEO, AI Futures Forum. It is late September 2026. Sixteen months ago, our first report established that AI adoption was becoming inevitable
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2026/09/30:
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AL doesn’t often do board roles, but this is a biggy, so…..Steno, the court reporting and AI-driven litigation support pioneer, has appointed Brian Lee to
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2026/09/29:
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We’ve seen new model law firms proliferate in the US and UK, and now here’s one in the Netherlands: Driven Lawyers, created by Jelle Drok
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2026/09/29:
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Legal AI platform, August, is launching a new feature that allows AI agents working inside a company to request help from lawyers – which could
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2026/09/29:
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Mitratech Legal has bought BotDojo, a small startup focused on agent orchestration. It will become part of the far larger company’s ARIES AI offering, they
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2026/09/29:
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Harvey is launching its first ever TV commercials, which will run on ESPN, NBC, Amazon, Netflix, HBO Max and other channels. The theme is ‘agreements
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2026/09/28:
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A survey of 557 arbitration professionals in the US has found strongly conflicting data about legal AI. While some use cases for AI seem popular,
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2026/09/28:
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Entertainment giant Disney is having a legal AI moment. Last week, Deadline reported that the company’s 1,000-strong Legal and Global Affairs group would face significant
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2026/09/25:
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It’s conference season and Artificial Lawyer is on tour! AL’s founder will be lugging his legal AI guitar from London to Paris to Boston and
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2026/09/24:
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By Katja Nikolaus, Co-Founder, JUNE. Few technologies have been adopted by legal departments as quickly as generative artificial intelligence. In an international survey by ACC
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2026/09/24:
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After raising $5.5m from Kindred Ventures and a16z Speedrun, among other investors this summer, NewMod Fearn has formally launched – joining an ever-growing group of
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2026/09/23:
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Sovereign AI pioneer, Noxtua, has raised around €100m in a Series C round that also makes German legal publisher C.H. Beck the new majority shareholder.
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2026/09/23:
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Lewis Silkin, a UK-based law firm, and its LS Innovations affiliated tech company, have launched Lettu, an AI-powered platform to help ‘creators, talent managers, agencies
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2026/09/23:
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After the success of our inaugural Legal Innovators Europe conference in Paris, Cosmonauts and Artificial Lawyer invite you to join us for a special breakfast
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2026/09/23:
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Harvey has launched a pro bono program in the UK, Australia, and the US, which seeks to address the reality that today many millions of
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2026/09/23:
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Chamelio, an AI-native platform for inhouse legal teams, has announced a $26 million Series A raise led by Entrée Capital, with participation from existing investors
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2026/09/22:
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Can lawyers learn from how other professionals train, such as pilots? Can simulators become a key part of training for lawyers, especially for litigators? You
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2026/09/22:
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Legal Innovators UK is arriving soon and we are delighted to announce our latest sponsors for the landmark event in London on November 4 and
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2026/09/22:
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NewMods are forming faster than you can say ‘innovating the means of legal production’. The latest entry into the market is Vetta, created by ex-Latham
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2026/09/21:
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A major survey of 25,000 employees by Big Four firm Deloitte has found that the workforce in general has not seen significant productivity gains from
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2026/09/21:
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By Deepak Kapoor, CEO, Manupatra. The legal AI conversation has, understandably, been dominated by models. Which model reasons better? Which has the larger context window?
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2026/09/19:
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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
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2026/09/18:
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The battle for centrality is now legal tech’s greatest strategic challenge – and Astra for Law just raised the stakes for everyone. That is to
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2026/09/18:
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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
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2026/09/18:
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After plenty of waiting, OpenAI has launched Astra for Law, a ‘new offering powered by GPT-6 Astra with tools, settings, and context to support the
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2026/09/17:
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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
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2026/09/17:
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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
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2026/09/17:
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AL doesn’t usually do client wins, but this one is worth a mention. Legora has been picked by Salesforce for its legal teams across the
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2026/09/17:
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Checkbox, a legal front door for corporates, has launched First Pass, marking a move into contract review – and which builds upon its platform for
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2026/09/16:
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A new pricing survey by BigHand shows that 31% of law firms – which had scrutinised their data – found that AI had ‘improved profitability
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2026/09/15:
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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
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2026/09/15:
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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
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2026/09/14:
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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
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2026/09/14:
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The more this site thinks about law firms training open weight models and renting their own GPUs, the less it seems to make sense. Here’s
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2026/09/11:
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Let’s start this Wrap with some news, then a reminder about two great webinars with LegalOn and also Chamelio next week, and then some videos.
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2026/09/10:
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On one hand Katie was happy to depart San Francisco. She’d had quite enough of the conspiratorial shenanigans. Sara Keating, and most of all Harry
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2026/09/10:
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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
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2026/09/10:
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Global law firm, White & Case, has made a strategic investment into Saudi-based Clauze, a new legal AI platform. It’s been founded by Waad Alkurini,
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2026/09/10:
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Harvey has just raised $550m at a $15.5 billion valuation. Legora is understood to be hoping to raise another major round at a $10 billion
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2026/09/10:
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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
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2026/09/09:
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At a recent Practising Law Institute event celebrating the publication of her book, Unprecedented, Jen Leonard sat down for a Q&A to discuss the challenges
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2026/09/09:
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In this week’s AL TV Product Walk Through we take a look at Caddi, which provides back-office automation for lawyers. As Co-Founder & CEO, Alejandro
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2026/09/09:
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Legal intelligence platform, Chamelio, has launched Agent Hub, which lets inhouse lawyers use a suite of ‘always-on AI agents’ that can work independently, monitor what
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2026/09/09:
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A new legal tech fund, GCVC, has launched, backed by over fifty sitting general counsels from prominent private and public companies. Meanwhile, Wilson Sonsini is
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2026/09/09:
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Italy’s leading legal AI company, Lexroom – which raised $50m in a Series B round this summer – has acquired French legal tech startup Query
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2026/09/08:
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‘Companies are very frustrated because there’s been no alternative,’ says Rick Merrill, co-founder of NewMod firm Merrill. Traditional law firms remain expensive and hourly-based, yet
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2026/09/07:
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OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, its new flagship model and their most capable LLM yet for end-to-end tasks. Both Harvey and Legora have provided some
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2026/09/03:
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Recap: After the summer break, Katie’s adventures as head of innovation at Smyth & Marmalade continue. Project Rubicon – to build their own AI system
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2026/09/03:
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‘Legal AI can’t do judgment’, some have said, as if this were a sacrosanct area of legal work. But, AI can capture and leverage judgment
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2026/09/02:
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Kyra Law is a pioneering UK-based NewMod law firm. Artificial Lawyer spoke to co-founder Julian Ritter about leveraging AI with this new business model, the
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2026/09/02:
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On Wednesday, September 16, 4 PM BST, 11 AM ET, 8 AM PT, Chamelio and Artificial Lawyer will be holding a live webinar to explore the increasingly
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2026/09/01:
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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.
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2026/09/01:
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Payments giant Stripe has taken a step into the legal tech world with Clerky, a company formed by ex-Orrick lawyers that helps startups with their