AI Market Share
Market Share Battle Continues as BCLP Picks Legora
The battle for market share among the genAI productivity platforms took another step forward today as UK-based BCLP said it had picked Legora, following a …
GPT-5
GPT-5 Is Imminent, OpenAI Rolls Out Opensource
OpenAI, the company that fired the starting gun for the wider genAI market with ChatGPT in November 2022, is imminently to launch GPT-5, its long-awaited …
Inhouse
IDC Data Reveals Investment in Legal Tech Is No Longer Optional
By Matt Vaughan, LawVu. New research reveals the financial and operational costs associated with under-resourced corporate legal departments, highlighting an urgent opportunity for both legal …
AI + Outlook
Harvey Launches Outlook Add-In
Harvey has launched an Outlook Add-In ‘to bring AI-powered drafting and summarization directly into your inbox’. It builds upon its existing connector to Word that …
Funding for AI
August Bags $7m, OpenAI Exec Invests
August, the ‘first AI platform built specifically for midsize law firms’ – and previously called VecFlow, has raised $7m. It will provide configurable AI workflows …
AI + Legal Research
TR Launches ‘CoCounsel Legal’ With Agents + Deep Research
Thomson Reuters has launched what it’s calling ‘CoCounsel Legal’, which will include ‘Deep Research’ capabilities and support for agentic guided workflows. And you may then …
Legal Tech M&A
Elite Sold Again, Now To Francisco Partners
Thomson Reuters sold a majority stake in Elite in 2023 to the TPG private equity group, at the time pricing the legal payments platform at …
Africa + Legal Tech
Afriwise Buys LawExplorer In Africa Legal Tech Deal
We tend to focus on the US and UK – understandably – but there’s plenty of legal tech going on worldwide. In this case, Afriwise, …
Founder's Story
Laurel: From Time Keeping To A $100m Raise
A lot has happened since AL first met Laurel at Mishcon de Reya’s MDR Lab eight years ago. It’s changed its name, grown hugely, and …
The Big Picture
The AI Infra Boom: Another Industrial Revolution?
By John Nay, CEO, Norm Ai. Over the past two years, much of the conversation around AI has shifted from algorithms to atoms. Tech giants are ploughing money …