Legal Tech M&A
Aderant Carves Out Legal Division of HerculesAI
In a relatively rare type of legal tech carve out deal, Aderant has bought the legal tech division of HerculesAI (formerly Zero). In a statement …
CLM
At Key Time For CLMs Icertis Appoints New CEO
In what is probably the most challenging and rapidly evolving time for the CLM market, the CEO and co-founder of Icertis, Samir Bodas, is stepping …
ILTACON
Meet + Run With The Legal Innovators Team at ILTACon
Following on from our first Legal Innovators Breakfast in New York during Legal Week, the team behind the Legal Innovators conferences in London and the …
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 …