Legal Innovators UK, Clio, Chamelio, Aloi +

We start the Wrap with news about Legal Innovators UK, London, Nov 4 + 5, and some of the excellent speakers we can already announce (see below). What makes Legal Innovators stand out is that not only do we have many innovation experts from leading law firms, we also have GCs and senior inhouse lawyers on the client side taking part.

We’ve always believed that legal innovation needs both perspectives within the legal services world – law firms, NewMods, and ALSPs and also the clients. Thus, we have Law Firm Day on Nov 4^th, and Inhouse Day on Nov 5^th so that everyone is part of the conversation. You are welcome to attend both days and will no doubt get plenty of additional insights from doing so! (Plus, of course, there will be a lot of networking going on and the chance to see up close the latest offerings from the world’s top legal AI companies.)

For more information and details on how to attend and / or get involved, please see the link here.

We will be holding Legal Innovators New York on Nov 17^th and 18^th in Midtown at Convene – and this will also follow the ‘both sides of the coin’ model. More on this major US event next week.

Plus, keep an eye out for our Legal Innovators conference in Paris, France, in June, and our latest landmark event, Legal Innovators Nordics, in Stockholm, Sweden – which will be in April 2027 – and for which we already have a lot of folks wanting to take part!

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OK, and now onto a couple of great webinars, both dealing with important and topical challenges.

On Wednesday, September 16, 4 PM BST, 11 AM ET, 8 AM PT, Chamelio and Artificial Lawyer will be holding a live webinar to explore the increasingly important topic: ‘Why is the Legal AI ROI Conversation Still Broken?’ And where we will also come up with some answers to solve this challenge! 

RSVP here.

​We’ll break down:

• ​Why traditional legal ops metrics (contract volume, turnaround time, tool logins) measure motion, not value
• ​What ‘impact’ actually looks like when legal is proactive instead of reactive, fewer bottlenecks, faster deal velocity, risk caught before it’s expensive
• ​How to build a data narrative that connects legal’s work to business outcomes leadership already cares about
• ​What changes about ROI measurement once AI is doing part of the work and how to avoid just automating the same broken metrics

RSVP here to reserve your place.

And also,

On September 15, at 12 noon ET / 9 am PT / 5PM BST, LegalOn CEO, Daniel Lewis, will lead a live conversation with Artificial Lawyer founder, Richard Tromans, and Vanessa Wu, Senior Counsel at Rippling, about what could be a looming tidal wave of legal matters – driven by wider AI use – that inhouse teams may have to deal with.

RSVP here for what will be a fascinating and timely discussion.

Webinar Overview:

What if AI doesn’t shrink in-house legal teams’ workloads — but instead creates a tidal wave of demand?

In-house legal work has always run on a form of self-rationing by the business: when legal answers take time and cost, business stakeholders only ask for the essentials. But as AI makes legal answers faster, cheaper, and more generally available, will we see a surge in demand as business teams ask the questions they’ve always held back on? And, will they be coming to legal as ‘armchair lawyers’ with strong opinions and sometimes faulty rationales from their own AI inquiries?

On September 15 at 12pm ET / 9am PT / 5PM BST, LegalOn CEO Daniel Lewis will lead a live conversation with Artificial Lawyer founder Richard Tromans and Vanessa Wu, Senior Counsel at Rippling. 

We’ll discuss: 

• Why efficiency alone won’t solve legal’s capacity problem
• What “AI ROI” should really measure once hours-saved stops being the answer
• Why matter intake and triage are shaping up as the next opportunity for in-house teams

Register now  to hear how legal leaders are preparing for a surge in demand and rethinking what capacity, efficiency, and ROI actually mean in an AI-enabled legal function.

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And here are some great interviews, one with Kyra Law, a UK-based NewMod, and then one with Aloi’s CEO, Johan Hager, all about how they are helping law firms to build an AI-driven judgment layer. Who said that AI can’t do judgment….?

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And now some news, which after the madness of the last two weeks has calmed down a little ahead of Labor Day in the US. Although, there is still quite a lot happening, so not that tranquil! Maybe legal AI won’t ever be calm again? Either way, as always, it’s in summarised style.

• Clio has announced a collaboration with US law firm BakerHostetler to support the continued advancement of the firm’s Practice Intelligence Center. ‘The first-of-its-kind, firm-built platform connects enterprise data, legal knowledge, attorney experience, and artificial intelligence-enabled workflows in a secure, governed environment,’ they said, and added that among its first capabilities is Matter Research+, a research tool developed through BakerHostetler’s collaboration with Vincent by Clio. Matter Research+ brings together the firm’s proprietary matter intelligence and AI-powered legal research while safeguarding client data, they noted.

• Artificial Lawyer’s founder will be giving the closing keynote at the Lawtech Summit in Australia on Sept 17 – at about 5PM Gold Coast time (by video – much as it would be nice to sit on the beach there!) See here for more info.
• Descrybe’s Legal Engine is now available within the Microsoft 365 Copilot ecosystem, ‘giving organizations a new way to bring specialized legal research and intelligence directly into the AI tools their teams already use’, they said.
• And also Laurel is now on the Microsoft Marketplace as well. (There’s a trend here…!)
• Carta Law, a NewMod law firm for private capital that was bought by Avantia recently, has made four senior appointments across its Compliance and Contracts practices, ‘reflecting continued growth in demand from asset managers in the US and Europe’. This includes: Noah Levine, Karin Porstendörfer, Chrystel Marincich, and Kenneth Howe.
• NuCAS, an ALSP, has appointed Mark Qualter as a Strategic Adviser. In a previous role he led the DWF Managed Services business and oversaw the integration of Mindcrest.
• Plaintiff-focused Supio has launched new agentic capabilities. They noted that their ‘long-horizon agents [can] work the entire case….[and] operate across that full lifecycle, carrying work over days and weeks and across email, fax, phone, and text. The agent is responsible for keeping momentum on the case rather than waiting to be asked, escalating to an attorney where human judgment is required.’
• Wordsmith has appointed Simon McCarthy as VP of Transformation. He recently led Enterprise Transformation at CLM ContractPodAI, now Leah.
• Tech consulting group, BearingPoint, is connecting its AI platform, GenAIQ, with Docusign’s Intelligent Agreement Management (IAM) suite, to ‘help procurement teams unlock contract value, automate compliance monitoring, and recover revenue that is often lost through unmet supplier obligations’, they said.
• LexisNexis and EvenUp, an AI platform for personal injury law, have announced a strategic alliance that ‘enables mutual personal injury law firm customers to leverage trusted, citation-backed legal insights and agentic AI from LexisNexis Protégé in EvenUp’s Companion, with access to Lexis+ with Protégé for complex, end-to-end legal work and EvenUp’s personal injury-specific case intelligence, they noted.
• Legalfly, a legal operating system for corporates, has launched Contract Intelligence, covering ‘the entire contract lifecycle, from drafting and negotiation through approval, signature and beyond,’ they added.

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And finally, as highlighted above:

Come and join us in London this November 4th + 5th at Legal Innovators! The conference at the intersection of legal AI and the business of law. Day One: law firms, Day Two: inhouse.

Legal Innovators UK – London, Nov 4 and 5

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That’s all folks. Have a great weekend. And a nice long weekend if you are in the US.

In fact, if you are taking some time off for Labor Day this year, here’s one fun challenge for you – please define the following: ‘In the age of AI, legal labor equates to…..’

That’s a subject we will have to discuss more and more as legal AI becomes more powerful.

Richard Tromans, Founder – Artificial Lawyer, and Legal Innovators Chair.