Vendor-sponsored piece arguing grounded, citation-backed AI is the shift that unlocks legal adoption. Worth reading for the marketing framing even if the "hallucination-free" claim deserves a healthy dose of salt.
Simmons' survey of 500 in-house lawyers on how AI is reshaping roles, capacity, and ethical dilemmas. Good data point for any human-plus-machine client conversation.
Cohen argues AI finishes the job of dismantling the traditional partnership pyramid while also enabling the model that replaces it. Provocative but lines up with what the in-house data is starting to show.
LexisNexis gives Harvey access to its primary law content with citation-backed responses and custom workflows. Big content-plus-product tie-up that leaves other vendors scrambling for authoritative data partners.
"Chatbots respond to inputs, agents work toward goals." Sets out the behavioural markers of real agents - autonomous reasoning, memory, recovery from failure, initiative - vs dressed-up workflows.
Argues agents face a Catch-22: value grows with freedom, but freedom breaks control via conflicting RLHF and prompt instructions. Until labs solve this, enterprise agents stay as glorified chatbots.
Relativity's pitch for agentic e-discovery through aiR - autonomous document review and case-strategy work with human oversight. Useful view of how the big e-discovery incumbents are positioning against the new wave.
Mollick's leadership talk on what an AI strategy actually requires from the top. Concrete recommendations for anyone building a firm or in-house AI plan.
Series E co-led by Kleiner and Coatue. Now in 53 countries with the highest valuation of any legal AI startup, with plans to expand into tax and other professional services.
Australian take on how AI will reshape rather than replace the role of the lawyer. Useful piece for APAC conversations on skills and career pathways.
Mollick's practical starter pack: pick one of Claude, Gemini or ChatGPT, pay the $20/month, use the best model and features like Deep Research. Treat it as a thinking partner, not a search engine.
LTH's updated interactive map - now 638 GenAI-enabled legal tech solutions. The best single-page view of how crowded the market has become.
Harvey at $5B, Legora at $675M, and a clutch of specialist tools (email redlining, AI time tracking, in-house automation) getting real traction. Market is approaching a "commit to your platforms" moment.
4,000 attendees, 300 speakers, huge production value. Caveat: the floor had more vendors than buyers, which made the sales atmosphere heavier than it should have been.
Clio buys vLex for $1bn, combining practice management with primary-law research and Vincent AI. One of the largest legal tech deals to date and a clear "full-stack" play.
Anthropic let Claude Sonnet 3.7 run an automated shop in their office for a month - pricing, inventory, customer interactions. Equal parts promising and chaotic, and a useful ground-truth test on agent autonomy.