AI + ALSP
LOD / Consilio + Wordsmith Link For Managed Services
Lawyers On Demand (LOD), which was bought by Consilio in 2023, is partnering with Wordsmith to deliver AI-enabled managed services to inhouse legal teams. Last …
Law School + AI
A Student’s Response to Berkeley Law’s AI Ban
Last month, Berkeley Law School controversially banned AI use across many areas of study. One student, Lakshita Bhargava, who is doing a Master of Laws …
SF Special
Claude Fable, Steno, Billables AI, Spellbook, Legora
Because AL is in SF this week here’s a collection of news all in one go. First up, Claude Fable and how Mark Pike, who …
Funding
Sandstone Raises $30m For AI-Native Inhouse Teams
Sandstone has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, to support the development of AI-native legal departments – …
Wrap
What A Time For Legal AI! + Legal Innovators California
What an incredible time it is now for legal AI! Palantir has just entered the legal tech room, joining OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft. So, four …
Legal Innovators California
Join 650+ Legal Innovators in SF Next Week!
Come and join amazing speakers from OpenAI, Meta, Google, Y Combinator, Cooley, and Wilson Sonsini, along with 650+ others already attending the landmark Legal Innovators California conference …
Big Tech
Kirkland + Palantir Partner For PE Platform
Palantir and Kirkland & Ellis have launched a proprietary enterprise platform for private equity fundraising. It follows the news that the US firm will build …
Token Costs
Token Costs and the Future of Law Firm AI Spend
First, this is a thought experiment, so take a deep breath and a large pinch of salt….Artificial Lawyer asked ChatGPT to estimate the total token …
Transactions
What 6,200 Matters Reveal About Running Transactions
By Rob MacAdam, CPO, Legatics. Ask most transactional partners where the work on a deal happens, and you’ll get a confident answer: at signing. Closing …
NewMods
LawGeex Founders Launch Superlegal NewMod Firm
Noory Bechor, the Israel-based legal AI pioneer who co-founded LawGeex – but later saw the company broken up and sold off – has now launched …