Wrap: Harvey Academy, Luminance, Litera, Legal Innovators Europe +

Welcome to this week’s AL Wrap, with news, as well as the latest information about webinars and conferences to look out for.

Harvey Launches ‘Academy’, Includes Certification Course

Harvey has launched Academy, a new online educational resource covering a wide range of topics across the field of legal AI, in multiple languages, and will include a certification course.

Here’s a sample of what they’ll be offering.

The move comes as other legal AI businesses are also launching their own educational video offerings, for example August launched one earlier this week – see AL.

Harvey said what they offer will expand over the coming weeks and already covers areas such as legal AI literacy, as well as product-specific tutorials.

Is this a big deal? Well, many legal tech companies have provided certifications, e.g. Relativity, but it certainly works and gives users something formal to aim for. That approach also helps law firms and inhouse teams when it comes to structuring their internal training, i.e. they can ‘lean on’ Harvey, or other companies, to provide at least part of the syllabus.

This approach, as seen with August, helps with client outreach, and reduces the burden on vendors to provide quite as much hands-on training to use their AI tools.

Plus, it’s a sign of long-term engagement, i.e. we’ve moved from ‘Look, here we are!’, to ‘We are here, we are with you, and we’re going to help train you as your use of AI evolves.’  

More about the Academy here.

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Luminance Remembers…..

Legal AI OG, Luminance, has announced that it can ‘now retain and reason over a customer’s entire contract history’, rather than analysing documents in isolation.

Previously, while Luminance could ‘understand individual contracts and surface risk, much of the contextual knowledge that typically sits in a general counsel’s head such as why decisions were made or how counterparties behaved over time was effectively lost’, they told Artificial Lawyer.

The new ability preserves and applies that institutional context.

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EvenUp, an AI startup for personal injury lawyers, has launched a new Medical Management Solution, which tackles the ‘32% of cases experiencing major treatment interruptions by delivering visibility into every client’s medical journey in real-time’.

Medical Management features ‘AI communication agents’ that proactively keep firms updated, enabling them to prevent costly treatment gaps, maintain case progress, and protect case value for their clients, they said.

It goes to show how far legal AI and the use of agentic approaches is now moving into the plaintiff / no-win no-fee side of the legal world. This matters as some firms will inevitably be on the defence side of such claims where AI has been used.

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Legora has hired David Eckstein as its new Chief Financial Officer from Vanta, where he served as CFO for three years and supported the company’s growth across new markets. Prior to Vanta, Eckstein was CFO at Menlo Security, where he helped guide the company through a period of expansion.

Normally, AL doesn’t cover CFO moves, but the hire underlines Legora’s seriousness about accelerating their international expansion – and thus the need for someone who’s ‘good at money’ and at scale.

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Baretz+Brunelle has launched L.E.G.A.L. (Leaders Exploring Generative AI in Law), a ‘collaborative market-intelligence initiative designed to establish a standardized, commercially grounded benchmark for how genAI is reshaping legal services’.

With B+B serving as a ‘neutral intermediary’, all responses from law firms and inhouse teams are ‘analyzed and shared only in anonymized, aggregated form’. The goal is to create ‘a reliable baseline for understanding what is actually changing as adoption accelerates’, they said. More here.

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Now for some conference news

Legal Innovators Europe – Paris: June 24 + 25

We will be holding four Legal Innovators conferences this year, in the US, UK and Europe, with for the first time, Legal Innovators Europe – Paris – June 24 and 25. This will follow the Legal Innovators Californiaconference on June 10 and 11, in San Francisco. 

The Europe event is special for several reasons. First, the Paris conference will be our inaugural Legal Innovators dedicated to the European legal market. 

Although it’s in France this year, the central idea is that the conference is for everyone building legal tech, buying legal tech, and everyone in between, all across Europe. So, whether you’re working in Stockholm, Stuttgart, or Seville on legal tech, this is your conference.

The Paris-based event will be two days: Law Firm Day and then Inhouse Day – see more here for information and how to get your Early Bird tickets. Please get in touch with the team (see below) if you’d like to take part as a sponsor or speaker.

For sponsors for Legal Innovators conferences please contact: robins@cosmonauts.biz or also anjana@cosmonauts.biz

And for speakers from law firms and inhouse, contact: phoebe@cosmonauts.biz

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And finally, two great AL webinars to take part in:

On Thursday, February 26, Harvey, in association with Artificial Lawyer, will be holding a live webinar: ‘AI, Collaboration and the Future of the Law Firm-Client Relationship’.

It’s free to attend, but please RSVP here

Speakers:

• Karen Buzard, Partner, US Head of the Markets Innovation Group, A&O Shearman
• Ryan Samii, Head of Innovation, Harvey
• Moderator: Richard Tromans, Founder, Artificial Lawyer

Time: Thursday, February 26, at 9AM PT, 12PM ET, and 5PM GMT

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Litera and Artificial Lawyer Webinar – March 3^rd – 11AM EST, 4PM GMT

Your firm’s deal expertise lives in scattered folders and individual heads. When that knowledge disappears, negotiations slow, mistakes repeat, and client trust erodes. 

Join us March 3rd for The Memory Layer: How Firms Preserve and Scale Deal Expertise. Learn how leading teams capture and surface the insights that shape better outcomes 

You’ll learn how to: 

• Capture diligence insights that inform negotiations and client alignment
• Surface precedent language and firm patterns at the right time
• Use templates and structured workflows to accelerate future deals

It’s free to attend, but please RSVP. See you there! 

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Have a great weekend folks!

P.S. if you’re going, see you at CLOC in London next week: Feb 5^th.

P.P.S. and although it’s a while away still, look forward to seeing you all in New York in March for Legal Week. If you’ve got something cooking, please let Artificial Lawyer know.

Richard Tromans, Founder, Artificial Lawyer