Microsoft has unveiled its first large language model called MAI-Thinking-1, which it says matches the performance of Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 and which underpins its efforts to build frontier AI free from OpenAI.  The tech giant at its […]
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Legora today (2 June) announced its acquisition of Cadastral, an AI-powered platform built to automate and accelerate commercial real estate workflows. Cadastral is used by companies including JLL, AvalonBay, Equity […]
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OpenAI has formally launched a dedicated legal industry vertical, appointing Ironclad co-founder Jason Boehmig to lead the initiative in a move that signals the company’s intention to compete directly for […]
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Our latest Orange Rag industry expert is Patrick Hurley, global lead for applications management solutions at Harbor, based in London. Hurley says that the question for law firms now, more than ever, is what […]
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This week our startup is NegoAgent, which uses AI to help you learn to negotiate or to improve your skills – a really interesting use case and one that we […]
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Tom Saunders, RSGI Kirkland & Ellis announced today (28 May) that it would spend $500m over the next three to four years developing its own custom AI tools and services. […]
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In the latest episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill and Ari Kaplan catch up on some of the key topics debated at The Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) […]
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By Neil Cameron Crimson – the London-based litigation AI startup LITI readers will know as the disputes-focused tenant in A&O Shearman’s Fuse incubator – today announces an oversubscribed $2.5m seed […]
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May has been an extraordinary month in terms of announcements, and one that has had law firms and legal organisations across the board rethinking their AI strategies, again. We’ve had the launch of Claude […]
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As AI tools become more accessible, in‑house legal teams are starting to build their own answers to everyday problems – often faster than vendors or law firms can respond. But […]
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Neil Cameron, lead analyst, Legal IT Insider  iManage closes its flagship user conference with a platform repositioning that its CEO has compared, in scale, to the move to cloud. The […]
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This month our Orange Rag legal tech expert is Stephen Brown, managing director of Lights-On Consulting. One of the major issues that Brown and the Lights-On consulting team regularly advise […]
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We speak to CT&IO Stuart Whittle about the selection process and plans for Clio Operate  Weightmans has selected Clio Operate as its case and matter management platform, following a major selection […]
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