Neil Araujo, the CEO and cofounder of iManage, was last on this podcast almost exactly two years ago. In the dog years of the legal industry’s AI age, that feels like a long time ago. Our conversation then was about law firms still feeling their way around generative AI. But now, as you will hear in this
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Universal Migrator has launched a brand-new website designed to make legal data migrations easier to research, explain, plan, and execute.
The new site gives migration consultants, IT professionals, legal technology advisors, and law firm leaders a clearer way to understand what Universal Migrator can do across hundreds of migration scenarios. Instead of forcing migration experts to piece together information manually,
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(This is a guest editorial by Emma Pullman, head of shareholder engagement and responsible investment at the British Columbia General Employees’ Union (BCGEU) in Canada, a minority shareholder in Thomson Reuters, and Sarah Lamdan, a lawyer and librarian who researches and writes about library vendors and service providers, and who wrote a 2019 law review article on the
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The legal industry is turning into a battleground for the two dominant frontier AI companies.
Less than a month ago, Anthropic — developer of the Claude AI assistant — took a major step into the legal market, releasing more than 20 MCP connectors linking Claude to the software that law firms and legal departments run on, along with 12
Continue Reading Ironclad Founder Jason Boehmig Joins OpenAI To Develop Products for the Legal Sector
Aiming to curtail the glut of court filings containing hallucinated legal citations, the Florida Supreme Court today issued a new rule that requires the signer of any document filed in any Florida court to represent that “the legal authorities identified exist and are accurately cited.”
The court’s order (Opinion_SC2026-0673) also adds a rule that expressly authorizes courts to
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For Illinois attorneys who are curious about trying artificial intelligence for contract review, now is their chance to do it for free.
The Illinois State Bar Association and the AI contract review platform SimpleDocs said today that they have entered into a partnership to give ISBA members free 30-day access to the SimpleDocs’ product SimpleAI and then a 25% discount
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The legal system has a blind spot, often failing to recognize risk until a lawsuit is filed. By that point, it is too late to mitigate and the only course is to react.
That is the premise of Darrow, a company that built its early reputation by scanning the web to surface potential class actions.
This month, Darrow launched
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UC Berkeley School of Law has adopted one of the most restrictive student AI policies of any top law school, barring the use of generative AI for nearly every step of producing graded work — and prohibiting it outright in any exam. The policy takes effect this summer.
The rule, which the school released last week, forbids the use
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Last month, I wrote about the pushback by employees, shareholders and others against Thomson Reuters over its contracts to sell law enforcement data to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), primarily through two products: CLEAR (Consolidated Lead Evaluation and Reporting), which provides personal data from a variety of public and non-public sources, and license plate recognition data, which contains more
Continue Reading Ahead of June 10 Shareholder Vote, Union Investor Renews Push for Thomson Reuters to Assess Human Rights Impact of Its Products Used By ICE
iManage used the opening of its annual ConnectLive user conference in Chicago earlier this week to introduce what it describes as the next evolution of its document- and knowledge-management platform, a redesign the company says is built to make institutional knowledge usable by AI systems while keeping governance and security controls in place.
The announcement is the first phase of
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Last week, when Anthropic released its biggest legal push to date — more than 20 MCP connectors, 12 practice-area plugins,a and integrations with Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint — much of the coverage focused on what the announcement means for law firms, in-house teams, and the legal tech ecosystem. That is where the bulk of the announcement was directed.
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As legal AI company Harvey kicks off the two-day Harvey Forum today in New York City, it is announcing the launch of Command Center, a new product designed to help law firms and legal teams manage, measure, and optimize enterprise AI adoption.
In addition, Harvey today announced a partnership with legal AI company DeepJudge designed to bring the expertise and
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In last week’s Claude-pocalypse, Anthropic, one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies, released 12 legal-specific plugins for its Claude AI assistant. It was big news, signalling a frontier AI company’s deeper push into the legal space.
Notably, however, not one of those plugins was designed for legal aid. Rather, they covered legal tasks common within larger law firms
Continue Reading The Claude-pocalypse Bypassed Legal Aid; LawDroid’s New Plugin Remedies That, with 15 Targeted Skills
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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