Last month, when Anthropic, developer of the popular AI assistant Claude, announced a major push into legal, much of the coverage in the media and the buzz on social media focused on what the announcement meant for law firms, in-house legal teams, and the legal tech ecosystem.
But the less talked about side of the story was potentially the
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When I wrote last week about BARBRI’s acquisition of Lega, I had not yet had the chance to speak with Lega founder Christian Lang, who was traveling. So I closed that post with what was admittedly conjecture on my part – that the large-language-model governance product that defined Lega when it launched in 2023 was now going away, in favor
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Supio, the AI platform built for plaintiffs’ personal injury firms, has hired Melissa Graham, chief operating officer of Nevada’s Richard Harris Law Firm for the last 15 years, as its vice president of industry, a newly created role aimed at narrowing the gap between the people who build legal technology and the people who actually run law firms.
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The closely watched copyright litigation between Thomson Reuters and ROSS Intelligence returned to the spotlight this month as a three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments over whether ROSS’s use of Westlaw headnotes to train its legal research system was protected by fair use.
At oral argument June 11 in Philadelphia, the three-judge panel, consisting
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Perplexity, the AI search engine known for delivering sourced answers to user queries, is making an explicit move into the legal market, rolling out legal-specific features within its agentic platform, Perplexity Computer, and positioning the product as what it calls “Computer for Counsel.”
The company highlighted the legal push yesterday at an invitation-only event in New York
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Recently I sat through a demo of a product unlike anything I’d seen before, aimed at a segment of the legal profession that legal tech companies have largely ignored – the fractional general counsel, lawyers who serve as outside in-house counsel for multiple companies too small to have their own legal departments.
The product is called Sapphire Legal and its
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When I wrote about Abstract in April, I reported on how the New York-based startup was making a push into the market for legislative and regulatory monitoring, alerting law firms and corporate legal teams to the bills and rules that matter to a client, even when they never mention that client’s industry by name. Now the company is employing
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Yesterday, Thomson Reuters made two announcements. It opened early access to the next generation of CoCounsel Legal, the most substantial reworking of its flagship legal AI assistant since the company acquired Casetext in 2023, and it released its Future of Professionals Report 2026, which warns of a widening gap between AI adoption and the value organizations are getting
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Once upon a time, a legal tech vendor’s goal in getting seen by potential customers was to rank on the first page of Google search. But in the age of AI, that is no longer enough. Now, when a potential buyer asks ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini to recommend a vendor, what matters is whether the company shows up in the
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Centari, an AI platform for managing complex transactions, today launched two capabilities, Amendment Awareness and Deal Maps, that help attorneys understand how transactions change over time and how documents relate to one another.
Both features further extend Centari’s platform beyond single-document review to reasoning across the multiple agreements, amendments, and ancillaries that make up a complex transaction.
The features
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Thomson Reuters is opening early access this week to what it calls the next generation of CoCounsel Legal, the most substantial reworking of its flagship legal AI assistant since the company acquired the product as part of its 2023 purchase of Casetext — and, just as notably, a shift in how the company describes what the tool is meant
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Most professionals are now using artificial intelligence at work, but far fewer are getting much value out of it, according to new research from Thomson Reuters. And the cost of that shortfall is starting to show up in lost clients, departing talent, and a generation of professionals who may take longer to develop the independent judgment expected of them.
The
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BARBRI, the legal education company best known for bar exam preparation, has acquired Lega, the AI startup that launched in 2023 with a focus on large language model governance but which has been evolving into helping legal professionals develop AI fluency through practical, experiential learning.
Legal was founded by Christian Lang, the former president and chief operating
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In two separate announcements this week, Clio rolled out two initiatives aimed at the same problem — getting practicing lawyers comfortable with AI. One puts AI software directly into lawyers’ hands at no cost; the other tries to teach the profession how to use it.
On Monday, the company announced the Legal AI Accelerator, a free education and certification
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When Kirkland & Ellis announced a $500 million investment in AI, much of the reaction focused on the dollar amount. That much money commands attention in the legal industry.
But the dollar amount may not be the most interesting part of the story. The more important questions are what is Kirkland actually buying and what it is selling.
There
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BlackBoiler, a company that has spent over a decade building automated redlining technology, this week launched Veris, a new platform that takes its original deterministic editing engine and supercharges it with generative AI and an agentic, chat-based interface.
Running directly inside a Microsoft Word add-in, Veris allows contract-review teams to negotiate and mark up agreements without ever leaving the
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