Harneys has become the first offshore law firm to roll out Harvey across all of its offices and to all employees, we can reveal, following an in-depth selection process last year. The selection demonstrates a belief that Harvey will deliver value to the whole firm, not just it’s fee-earners.
Harneys in the summer last year began its AI journey, looking at a number of different tools including Thomson Reuters CoCounsel,
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LexisNexis launches Protégé AI Workflows for Legal Professionals
LexisNexis Legal & Professional today (21 January) announced the U.S. commercial preview program of LexisNexis Protégé AI Workflows for Legal Professionals, launching a new ‘workflow-first’ interface that includes hundreds of pre-built workflows built around LexisNexis’ content.
While LexisNexis in 2025 announced various drafting and research workflows (they are a core component of Protégé, which launched in preview in August 2024), it says that today’s announcement brings together previous workflow products in one interface and represents its global vision for…
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Contract review platform Ivo raises $55m Series B
AI-powered contract review platform Ivo today (20 January) announced a $55m Series B funding round led by existing investor Blackbird, with participation from existing and new investors Costanoa Ventures, Uncork Capital, Fika Ventures, GD1 and Icehouse Ventures.
Since its last funding round in February 2025, the company, which was founded in New Zealand but has relocated its headquarters to San…
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Podcast: The implementation of CoCounsel at Acuity – Lessons learned
Implementing new technology in a law firm is rarely easy. Implementing generative AI, at speed, in a mid-sized firm with busy fee earners, is harder still. In the latest episode of Talking Tech with Legal IT Insider, our editor Caroline Hill spoke with Claire Cooper, transformation lead and solicitor at Acuity Law, about the firm’s enterprise-wide implementation
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Litera launches Litera One iOS mobile app
Litera today (20 January) launched the iOS mobile application of Litera One, its cloud platform that unifies document drafting, review, and knowledge management, integrated with Microsoft 365. The mobile app extends its capabilities beyond PCs and laptops to tablets and iPhone, so lawyers can pick up their work wherever they are.
Litera’s AI agent Lito will be accessible across…
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HSBC selects Harvey as its legal AI platform
HSBC Holdings today (20 January) announced a new strategic AI partnership with legal services provider Harvey AI, in a move, it says, that forms part of HSBC’s broader shift towards embedding AI across HSBC’s operations. This is a major win for Harvey, which already works with a number of large corporates, but whose publicity to date has revolved significantly…
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Cleveland State University College of Law rolls out prompt engineering course for lawyers
Cleveland State University College of Law on 19 January announced that it is offering its students Fundamentals of Prompt Engineering for Lawyers, a specialised AI-focused training course developed by experiential legal training platform AltaClaro. The certificate is a first step in CSU|LAW’s broader AI strategy to ensure graduates enter the profession ready to use AI responsibly and effectively—work that also…
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Guest post: Clearview AI’s UK ruling – What it means for overseas data controllers
Last year’s UK court decision involving Clearview AI, the US-based facial recognition company, has sparked widespread comment in the data protection community. Clearview AI, which collects billions of images to build a vast facial recognition database, was previously fined over £7.5 million by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for allegedly violating UK data protection laws. The ICO argued…
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Movers and Shakers: Big hires and arrivals for Hogan Lovells, Skadden, Harvey, Definely, Luminance & Arbor Law
It’s been a busy month for people moves both at law firms and legal tech vendors, starting with global law firm Hogan Lovells, which announced on 12 January today the appointment of Paul Gilford as its new global chief information officer (CIO), effective 26 January 2026. Gilford, who is based in London, succeeds Gareth Ash, who will retire in February…
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The Vendor View 2026 – A breakthrough AI year, and one of reckoning
Having spoken at the end of 2025 to a number of legal tech law firms leaders about their predictions for this year, Legal IT Insider has turned the microphone over to the vendor community, who have the advantage – albeit from their own lens – of deep insights gleaned from working with multiple private practice and in-house organisations.
The shared thoughts and forecasts are…
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The Inside View: Managing the next generation of AI-savvy in-house lawyers
In this second episode of The Inside View podcast, Legal IT Insider’s editor Caroline Hill and Pinsent Masons Vario‘s head of client development for flexible legal services, James Lewindon, chat about how in-house teams need to evolve in order to manage – and benefit from – younger, tech-savvy members of the team.Lewindon, who has spent over two decades supporting
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Litera’s AI adoption in numbers: Customers, usage, strategy and moat
By Tom Saunders, RSGI
At the start of January, Litera announced a “record-breaking year for AI adoption among law firms and corporate legal customers worldwide”, with 10x growth since Q3 2025.
To recap on its AI capabilities, in October 2025, Litera formally launched Lito, a generative AI agent which sits across its suite of products, allowing users to easily…
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Exclusive: Paul Orchard joins Norton Rose Fulbright as director of innovation and legal transformation for EMEAPAC
Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) has hired Paul Orchard as director of innovation and legal transformation for Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific (EMEAPAC), we can reveal. Orchard was previously head of innovation at Stephenson Harwood, where he helped to deliver the UK top 50 law firm’s GenAI solution testing and implementation programme.
Orchard is no stranger to…
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Paul Hastings selects Elite 3E Cloud
Leading global law firm and longtime Elite customer Paul Hastings has chosen 3E in the cloud as its next-generation financial and business operations platform.
Paul Hastings says that it will now adopt Elite’s SaaS platform to bring together financial, time, invoice, and data management into a single platform, transitioning away from relying on multiple integrated point solutions.
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Relativity launches aiR for Case Strategy for GenAI-assisted case preparation
Relativity today (12 January) announced the general availability of its generative AI-powered case intelligence solution, Relativity aiR for Case Strategy. Tested by over 50 customers, Relativity says that the new solution makes it faster and simpler to develop case narratives, enabling users to auto-extract facts, visualise fact chronologies, accelerate deposition preparation and more easily create document, witness, and transcript summaries.
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