Harvey, the legal AI company whose valuation recently hit $11 billion, recently released what it is calling the Legal Agent Benchmark, or LAB — an open-source evaluation framework designed to measure how well AI agents can perform extended, real-world legal work rather than the discrete reasoning tasks that have dominated legal AI benchmarks to date.
Announced May 6 in
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A five-month-old Swedish startup that says its AI agents can do the heavy lifting of patent invalidity and infringement analysis has raised a $10.5 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz, one of the world’s most prominent venture capital firms, the company is announcing today.
Stockholm-based Stilta, founded in December 2025 by four former McKinsey engineers, said the round
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The American Association of Law Libraries has named Thomson Reuters CoCounsel Legal the recipient of its 2026 New Product Award, the organization announced yesterday.
AALL’s New Product Award recognizes commercial information products that enhance law library services or improve access to legal information and the research process. To be eligible, products must have been introduced to the library marketplace
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EvenUp, the personal injury AI company that reached a $2 billion valuation last fall, is making a significant shift in its business model – one that extends it beyond software vendor to something closer to an outsourced operations partner for PI firms.
The San Francisco-based company announced yesterday the launch of what it calls Pre-Litigation as a Service, or
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A new legal technology product called eDig365 is making its public debut this week at the CLOC Global Institute in Chicago, offering a reporting and observability layer built on top of Microsoft Purview eDiscovery.
The product is designed to address a gap that its founders say is common in corporate legal departments. Legal operations and compliance teams often have
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NetDocuments today announced what it calls the first legal context graph — a proprietary knowledge infrastructure that the company says continuously maps the relationships among every matter, document, communication and person across a firm’s entire document repository, while preserving existing permissions and ethical walls.
Alongside it, the company is launching a substantial redesign of its platform’s user interface, including the
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Amid all the hubbub yesterday around Claude for legal, Clio quietly slipped in a notable story of its own: that it has now surpassed $500 million in annual recurring revenue.
Since few legal tech companies are public, it is hard to know where that puts Clio on the overall revenue landscape. But based on available information, that seems to
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The long-running copyright litigation between legal research giant Thomson Reuters and now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS Intelligence took another interesting turn this week, following the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ order that the parties file supplemental briefs addressing the impact of its recent ruling in American Society for Testing & Materials v. UpCodes, Inc. — a case I covered
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The Justice Technology Association (JTA), a nonprofit trade group representing mission-driven companies focused on the access to justice crisis, announced today that it has joined Anthropic as a launch partner in what Anthropic is calling its first comprehensive legal vertical initiative.
The announcement comes as part of a much-broader announcement by Anthropic of its push into the legal industry, as
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Two legal research providers — one a global publicly traded corporation, the other a relatively scrappy nonprofit — are today both announcing integrations with Anthropic’s Claude that allow the AI assistant to tap directly into their legal databases.
While the announcements from Thomson Reuters and Free Law Project’s CourtListener arrive on the same day and use the same underlying technology,
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Anthropic today took its biggest step yet into the legal market, releasing more than 20 new MCP connectors linking Claude to the software that law firms and legal departments run on, along with 12 new plugins tailored to specific legal practice areas.
Today’s announcement builds on the legal plugin Anthropic released in early February for Claude Cowork — the agentic
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Law firms sell experience — but for decades, harnessing and operationalizing that experience has been a largely manual, chaotic process. In this episode, recorded live at the Legal Marketing Association annual conference in New Orleans, host Bob Ambrogi sits down with Jason Noble, president and chief of product strategy at Ikaun, to talk about how his company is
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Nearly half of in-house legal professionals say they would not detect an unauthorized or incorrect action taken by an AI agent until after it had already occurred — sometimes days or weeks later — according to new survey research released today by Icertis, the contract lifecycle management company.
The findings, drawn from a survey of more than 1,000 U.S.
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eDiscovery AI, which was acquired in February by HaystackID, today announced the general availability of CaseBot, a conversational AI assistant that allows legal teams to interrogate case data in natural language and receive answers cited back to source documents.
The Minneapolis-based company had been running CaseBot in limited release since January 2026. It is now available to all
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Timed to coincide with today’s opening of the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) Global Institute in Chicago, Exterro is making two related announcements: the launch of a new autonomous subpoena management product and the unveiling of a strategic framework the company calls ARMOUR — Autonomous Risk Management, Orchestration, and Unified Response — that charts its vision for fully AI-driven legal
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