Funding
Harvey Raises $300m at $5bn Valuation in E Series Funding
Harvey CEO, Winston Weinberg, has just confirmed to Artificial Lawyer that the genAI pioneer has raised $300m at a $5 billion valuation – in addition …
Funding
£4BN British Business Bank Project Includes Legal Tech
While it may not be that well-known, the UK has its own special bank for driving growth – the British Business Bank – and it …
ediscovery
Consilio Launches Aurora eDiscovery System In UK + EU
After its recent purchase of AI research lab TrueLaw and partnership with litigation response pioneer LegalMation, Consilio is launching its Aurora platform in the UK …
Hires + Appointments
Legatics Hires MacAdam as CPO; Syke’s Ballard Creates Stella Legal
A couple of noteworthy moves for you now. Legatics, the legal transaction management platform, has hired Rob MacAdam as Chief Product Officer. He was previously …
FMS
Mary Technology Raises $1.7m Pre-Seed To End Fact Chaos
Mary Technology, a startup dedicated to ending ‘fact chaos’ in litigation, has raised a Pre-Seed investment of $1.7m (US). It uses a highly structured approach …
News Summary
AL News Summary: Draftwise, LegalZoom, Laurel, DISCO + More
Given the recent news surge, here’s a few key items you may have missed in this week’s AL News Summary. — After its ground-breaking deal …
AI Adoption
Navigating the AI Landscape: Law Firms And Stakeholder Pressure
By James Tuke. Our new report: ‘AI In UK Law Firms – Benchmarking Adoption and Anticipating the Future’ – finds the rapid integration of AI …
AI Hybrid
Crosby Raises $5.8m Seed For ‘Hybrid AI Law Firm’
Meet Crosby, a new ‘hybrid AI law firm’ which is ‘building the API for human agreements’. It has raised $5.8m in a Seed round led …
AI Agents
What Actually Is An ‘Agent’? And What Isn’t?
Antti Innanen explores what an ‘agent’ actually is, and why some things that are described as ‘agentic’ in fact are not, in this educational think …
Legal AI
vLex Launches Spring Upgrade, Feat: Agents + More
vLex has launched its Spring 2025 upgrade for its Vincent AI platform, including new agentic features, user-created workflows, and more, (see details in the AL …