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04.07.2025
The Council of Europe, which operates the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), has chosen Jylo as its legal AI platform after a competitive tender, in what is a very high-profile client win for t…
Last week, multiple regional legal tech groups, including ELTA, ILTN in India, ALITA in the Asia-Pacific, and AB2L in Brazil, formed a global alliance for innovation called AI2L. Here are some key …
As we head into the weekend, here are four AL TV Product Walk Throughs, including: vLex’s latest product expansion; Definely’s new Enhance and agentic AI features; Verbit’s Legal Visor, turning spe…
03.07.2025
Global law firm Freshfields is to offer its new junior lawyers the chance to do an LL.M in how ‘tech and AI will enhance the provision of legal services’. In short, it’s an LL.M in LLMs. The legal …
Legal tech startup, Wordsmith, has launched what it’s calling a training framework for ‘legal AI engineers’. It comprises several modules and will be supported by online educational resources. The …
While platform players are going super-wide in their offering, some legal AI startups are going the other way and drilling down into ever more niche use cases. SmartEsq, an AI-driven startup headed…
02.07.2025
Some legal tech experts believe paralegals will face uncertainty in the new AI era. But, Robin Ghurbhurun, who sits on the Governing Board of NALP (National Association of Licensed Paralegals), see…
Today’s AL TV Product Walk Through is with Definely and looks at its new Enhance and AI agent capabilities. Taking us through the video is Rhys Hodkinson, CRO. We begin with an overview of the curr…
Yesterday, Clio bought vLex for $1 billion in a cash and share deal. Here, Artificial Lawyer continues the interview with Clio’s CEO, Jack Newton. As Newton explained to this site yesterday, …
01.07.2025
It came as a surprise that it was Clio that bought vLex, but it’s not a surprise that vLex did a deal with someone, (see today’s news). vLex, aside from Thomson Reuters, was the only other bi…
Jack Shepherd, a senior figure at iManage, has left to join the innovation team at White & Case. The move follows the global firm’s hiring of Isabel Parker, previously at Deloitte, to lead the …
Clio has bought vLex in a $1 billion cash and share deal. Artificial Lawyer speaks to Clio’s CEO Jack Newton about the move. (More of the AL interview tomorrow.) Newton notes that he started …
The legal genAI market cake continues to get sliced up. The latest legal AI cake slices include: Charles Russell Speechlys has chosen Harvey; Dentons in Europe has chosen Legora; and DLA Piper in t…
A briefing by Matej Jambrich, Dentons. On 18 June 2025, LexisNexis turned Harvey into the first generative AI platform with full access to one of the two ‘must‑have’ proprietary US lega…
Breaking News: Clio has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire vLex, the legal research and AI productivity platform. The transaction is valued at $1 billion and will be paid in …
This week’s AL TV Product Walk Through is with Chamelio, a genAI-powered legal intelligence platform that helps inhouse teams ‘unlock and apply their institutional knowledge’. As the co…
30.06.2025
Raymond Blyd, the well-known legal tech expert, has launched S3, a new LLM evaluation framework for legal needs, which focuses on ‘identifying core deficiencies rather than proficiencies’. As Blyd …
By Richard Tromans, Artificial Lawyer. This site strongly supports the use of AI in the legal sector. But, we should not avoid the tough questions, such as: will AI ‘dumb down’ the legal world? The…
28.06.2025
Harvey has today launched Deep Research for Legal, which deploys OpenAI’s latest Deep Research capability to ‘power a new class of legal research agents – built to serve the world’s top law firms a…
27.06.2025
ContractPodAi has expanded its partnership with Microsoft to combine its domain-specific AI platform, Leah, with Microsoft’s agentic capabilities, including Azure OpenAI Foundry Models. This will s…
26.06.2025
Global law firm Dentons and AXL, a Canada-based group that ‘creates and launches AI companies’, have announced a strategic partnership to help the firm deliver ‘exponential value to clients through…
Multiple regional legal tech groups, including ELTA, ALITA in the Asia-Pacific, and AB2L in Brazil, have formed a global alliance for innovation called AI2L. As a long-time supporter of the innovat…
25.06.2025
Transforming.legal, the consulting group founded by Thomas Pfennig and which is behind the GOLT legal tech directory, has partnered with Europe’s ‘sovereign’ legal AI company Noxtua – which is back…
At the Legal Innovators California conference earlier this month, Jon Levy, a managing director at legendary incubator and investor, Y Combinator, said: ‘We invest in talent and we are seeing some …
This week’s AL TV Product Walk Through is with speech to text pioneers Verbit and looks at its Legal Visor capabilities, as the company embraces genAI and what it can do in this field. As the compa…
ALSP Integreon has launched a genAI compliance service with the help of ContractPodAi’s AI platform, Leah. It will focus on frequently occurring compliance demands, such as DORA, GDPR, and HIPAA. T…
24.06.2025
By Molly Taylor, Definely. AI in legal is past the point of hype. Law firms and companies are reporting real benefits in efficiency from using these tools – but there are also those who are r…
LexisNexis has commented to Artificial Lawyer about its allied venture arm’s fresh investment into Harvey (see below). Meanwhile, the highly-funded genAI startup has launched a new feature: Workflo…
Harvey CEO, Winston Weinberg, has just confirmed to Artificial Lawyer that the genAI pioneer has raised $300m at a $5 billion valuation – in addition to recently raised funds. He told AL: …
After its recent purchase of AI research lab TrueLaw and partnership with litigation response pioneer LegalMation, Consilio is launching its Aurora platform in the UK and Europe. The ‘Digital Enter…
While it may not be that well-known, the UK has its own special bank for driving growth – the British Business Bank – and it is open to providing loans and investment to legal tech as part of a new…
23.06.2025
Mary Technology, a startup dedicated to ending ‘fact chaos’ in litigation, has raised a Pre-Seed investment of $1.7m (US). It uses a highly structured approach to data organisation along with the l…
A couple of noteworthy moves for you now. Legatics, the legal transaction management platform, has hired Rob MacAdam as Chief Product Officer. He was previously a director of product at well-known …
20.06.2025
Given the recent news surge, here’s a few key items you may have missed in this week’s AL News Summary. — After its ground-breaking deal with Perplexity, LegalZoom has announced a partnership…
By James Tuke. Our new report: ‘AI In UK Law Firms – Benchmarking Adoption and Anticipating the Future’ – finds the rapid integration of AI into law firms is not merely a technological shift;…
19.06.2025
vLex has launched its Spring 2025 upgrade for its Vincent AI platform, including new agentic features, user-created workflows, and more, (see details in the AL TV Product Walk Through below). Here …
Antti Innanen explores what an ‘agent’ actually is, and why some things that are described as ‘agentic’ in fact are not, in this educational think piece for Artificial Lawye…
In what is possibly the most important legal tech move in a decade, LexisNexis – one of the largest legal data providers in the world – is forming a ‘strategic alliance’ with genAI pioneer Harvey. …
Meet Crosby, a new ‘hybrid AI law firm’ which is ‘building the API for human agreements’. It has raised $5.8m in a Seed round led by the giant Sequoia Capital, and is also backed by Bain Capital Ve…
18.06.2025
In a very creative approach to using genAI for contract review, Syntracts – co-founded by Uber and Latham & Watkins alums – doesn’t need prompts, and instead uses orchestrated small language mo…