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 tech giants now. When will Meta and Google arrive? Right, hold that thought because we have a Wrap to do – and just before Artificial Lawyer heads off to San Francisco for the landmark Legal Innovators California conference on June 10 and 11.

As you can see from the images – if AL’s founder was not already chairing the event this would really be a ‘must attend’ conference for this site. It’s not every day you get such massive tech players all in one room, alongside many of the world’s leading legal tech companies, plus a top-tier audience from across the Bay Area and beyond.

If you’re getting FOMO, then don’t stress, we still have a few complimentary passes, which if you are at a law firm, or inhouse, you can apply for here via Express Registration. Hope to see you there!

OK, and onto some news, which as ever will be kept to the point:

DocumentDrafter has launched Agentic Templating – ‘a new category of AI for legal drafting, and the most important product we’ve shipped’, they told Artificial Lawyer.

Michael Bjerg Hansen, Cofounder and CEO, explained: ‘It’s an AI agent that both drafts and automates. It works the way lawyers actually work: from a precedent, from an existing template, from whatever starting point they have. The expert reviews the template once. Every contract drafted from it inherits that judgment.

‘That is what AI in legal drafting should look like. AI working upstream, inside a structure the firm controls – where the firm’s judgment is made once, and everything downstream inherits it. That’s not a feature. It’s a posture.’

More here.

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LawVu has launched LegalOS, an AI-powered operating system built specifically for in-house legal teams. It introduces five new agentic AI capabilities across intake, workflows, drafting, and legal ops to help teams streamline routine work and improve efficiency.

‘Built on a decade of structured legal workflow data, LegalOS moves LawVu from a system that records legal work to one that actively executes it,’ they added.

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Filevine has launched its LOIS console, which ‘allows both read and write AI capabilities’.

The company told AL: ‘It centralizes all data and actions for lawyers, giving the entire law firm a single search bar. i.e., a command console for the entire firm. LOIS console is the only AI capable of coordinating the actual work of running a law firm because, at scale, no single lawyer can hold all case knowledge – teams must coordinate to understand all information of a case.’

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CLM Icertis has launched a number of new features and upgrades to its Vera AI system. This includes, among others:

• ‘Reimagined Vera Copilot: A single, conversational control panel that understands the intention behind every query so users can easily interact with contracts in natural language and get more precise, business-informed responses.
• Vera Engage: Agent-driven drafting and surgical redlining with AI that serves as the first touchpoint on every contract to accelerate negotiations and scale legal resources – plus the ability to turn legal precedents into automated playbooks that drive consistent, business-wide compliance to minimize contract risk.
• Vera Analytics: Strategic decision support that analyzes and surfaces risk exposure within contracts against business events to safeguard and optimize operations.’

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Litera has announced that Foundation 365, its AI-powered CRM platform for law firms, is now available across Microsoft 365. It ‘delivers the ability to understand and predict the best ways to connect with clients across Microsoft 365 Copilot, Outlook, and Teams,’ they said.

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Legartis is extending its Legal AI Workspace with Contract Management, where a contract now stays in the Legartis Workspace, with every version, its deadlines and the tasks attached to it.

It includes, among other features:

• ‘Lifecycle mapped in the Workspace – Every contract is given a clear status in the Workspace, from review through negotiation to the active contract period. As soon as it is ready, signing runs directly through DocuSign.
• Version comparison and version history – Every contract remains in the Workspace with its full version history.
• Team collaboration.’

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Kiwi-born legal AI company Ivo, now based in San Francisco, is partnering with New Zealand Football as the Official Legal AI Partner of the All Whites as the team prepares for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. (P.S. Who is the most famous Kiwi movie star? And will they also do a deal with them?)

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Marcelo Moura at Mishcon de Reya is once again holding his cross-border legal tech event on June 16th in London. AL was there last year and strongly recommends it.

‘Join the International Alliance of Legal Innovation Lawtech and Legal AI (AI2L) and leading experts at Mishcon de Reya as we discuss the future of legal tech, innovation and cross-border business.’

AL’s founder will be giving the closing keynote in the afternoon and there will be speakers from across the industry there.

Book your place here.

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And now for a video interview with NetDocuments, all about Knowledge Graphs and agents.

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And that’s it for this week folks. AL is now off to the West Coast and although some articles will get published, the combination of chairing Legal Innovators California, jet lag, the huge time difference, the need to get out and see the glorious San Francisco and wider Bay Area, and also do plenty of breakfasts and lunches etc, will mean textual output from this channel will be a bit less than usual. However, if Meta or Google launch into the legal vertical, AL will absolutely cover that! And who knows, it might happen just while we’re there! Anything seems possible now.

If you’re coming to Legal Innovators California, I look forward to seeing you there, and otherwise I’ll be speaking at RelFest in London and Marcelo’s event at MDR the week after, and then the week after that it’s Legal Innovators Paris on June 24 and 25, which is quickly becoming the largest legal tech event in France.

Have a nice weekend everyone!

Richard Tromans, Founder, Artificial Lawyer and Legal Innovators conference chair.