Funding
Wordsmith AI Bags $25m + CEO Interview
Wordsmith AI has raised $25m in series A funding led by Index Ventures. The new cash will be used to support its aim of ‘embedding …
GenAI + Legal Research
Midpage Bags $4m Seed + Launches ‘Proposition Search’
Midpage, an ‘AI-native’ legal research platform, has raised a $4m Seed round, taking its total funding to $6.2m. It was led by an unnamed ‘legal …
AI Agents
TR Rolls Out Auditor Agents, Legal To Follow
Thomson Reuters is rolling out AI agents via CoCounsel for tax, audit, and accounting needs. But, a new range of agentic capabilities for legal is …
Legal AI
Which Legal AI Tools Are Law Firms Actually Using?
A survey by Skills of which legal AI tools law firms are actually using provides multiple insights into where we are today. For example, Kira …
GenAI + Training
Case Study: How Dorsey & Whitney Is Building AI Competency
By Ian Nelson, Hotshot. When AmLaw 100 law firm Dorsey & Whitney decided to implement ndMax, an AI assistant integrated with their NetDocuments system, Caroline …
FFO
FFO: Law Insider, A Parrot, Definely + Legal Innovators California
Welcome to this week’s Friday Follow On, featuring: Law Insider, a parrot, Definely, and 10 days to go until Legal Innovators California on June 11 + …
incubator
A&O Shearman Announces Largest-Ever Cohort to join Fuse
Just got back from seeing a man about a robot. Plus, worth noting that Wolters Kluwer has just bought Brightflag….. But, in other news: A&O …
Conference
24 Hour Ticket Offer – Legal Innovators California – June 11 + 12
The Legal Innovators California conference in San Francisco, June 11 and 12, is now two weeks away and for just 24 hours we are giving away 10 …
Small Law + GenAI
Rocket Lawyer Gives Legal Answers With GenAI Q&A Tool
Rocket Lawyer, the contract template and tech platform that services the consumer and SMB market, has expanded its ‘Copilot’ AI assistant with the launch of …
GenAI + Patents
Ankar Agentic IP Platform Bags £3m Seed
Ankar, a platform leveraging AI agents for IP matters, has raised a £3m ($4.05m) Seed round led by Index Ventures. Hugging Face’s CTO, Julien Chaumond, …