Coding + Legal Tech
How Coding Agents Become Legal Tech Allies
By Henrik Hansson, co-founder, Vesence. Too much of the discussion about AI in legal still assumes a choice between fixed software and open-ended agents. We …
Legal AI ROI
Is AI Actually Making Your Legal Team Faster?
By Ed Walters, VP Legal Innovation & Strategy, Clio. Every legal AI pitch tells the same story: drafting that took days now takes hours, research …
NewMods
NewMod Manifest OS Bags $60m at $750m Valuation
NewMod Manifest OS has announced a $60m Series A funding round at a $750m valuation, with Menlo Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and First Round Capital, taking …
Hires + Appointments
Harvey Hires Former Notion CMO Rachel Hepworth
AL doesn’t usually cover marketing roles, but this one is definitely noteworthy. Harvey has hired Rachel Hepworth as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). She was previously …
M&A
LexisNexis Owner Plans to Buy Doctrine – Top French Legal AI Company
Breaking News – RELX Group, the publicly listed company which owns LexisNexis Legal & Professional, has announced that it has entered into a ‘put option …
Claude + Legal Tech
Is Claude Really Cheaper Than Your Legal Tech Stack?
On face value Claude looks way less expensive than paying for a legal tech tool for the tasks that it’s able to do, such as …
AI + Translation
Multilingual Legal AI Requires Data, Not Just Better Models
By Michael Krallmann, CEO, TransLegal. For the legal tech community, cross-jurisdictional meaning raises questions of risk, liability and trust. Increasingly capable models, wrapped in sophisticated …
Litigation Management
Product Walk Through: Opus 2 – AI Insights + Case Management
This week’s AL TV Product Walk Through is with Opus 2 and explores some of its new AI capabilities following the integration of Uncover. In …
EDGAR
Clio Launches EDGAR-Based Corporate Research Tool
Clio has made a new move in the Big Law legal space with the launch of a new tool within its Vincent AI capability that …
NewMod-ish
Ex-KPMG Partner Joins Three Points Law, Adds Agentic Platform
Usman Wahid, who was previously a partner and head of the Technology & Data legal team at Big Four firm KPMG – and also was …