Funding
Plaintiff Bar AI Takes Off – EvenUp Bags $150m
Plaintiff Bar AI tools are really taking off now, as EvenUp gains $150m in a Series E round at a $2 billion valuation – led …
Agents
OpenAI Launches AgentKit To Boost Agent Use
LLM pioneer OpenAI has launched AgentKit, which uses a visual canvas and building block approach to improve agent creation and deployment. In turn this should …
Law Punx
Law Punx: ‘AI Model Fine-Tuning Is Overrated’
In this Law Punx blast, Scott Stevenson of Spellbook discusses the limitations of fine-tuning AI models for legal use cases, arguing that it has become …
AI + ROI
From Cost Center to Profit Protector: ROI Lessons for In-House Counsel
By Ellen Traweek, LexisNexis. For years, corporate legal departments have faced the same tough reality: rising workloads, constrained budgets and constant pressure to deliver more …
Investment
Relativity Launches Rel Labs – Will Invest In Startups
Relativity has launched Rel Labs, an investment arm and innovation hub, with The Legal Tech Fund partnering alongside the eDiscovery giant. The investments will aim …
Investment
Harvey Takes €50m Investment From EQT Growth
Harvey has announced a €50m strategic investment from EQT Growth, the early stage venture group of the global EQT investment fund. It’s unusual as it …
Legal Tech M&A
A&O Shearman Spin-Off aosphere Buys Investment Navigator – Updated
A&O Shearman’s former legal tech business, aosphere, which was sold to private equity investors in late 2023, has bought Investment Navigator. (Updated…whoops, Monday mornings, lack …
Contract AI
OpenAI Shows Off Contract Review Agent
LLM pioneer, OpenAI, has unveiled a contract review agent aimed at enterprises so ‘you don’t have to eyeball every term’ – and which inevitably will …
CLM
Webinar: Setting Up A CLM – From Pilot to Production in 90 Days
How do you set up a contract lifecycle management (CLM) system for your inhouse team? What needs to be done? How do you make sure …
News Wrap
SpotDraft, Westlaw, Lupl, NRF, Lewis Silkin, Everlaw, AItorney +
Norton Rose Fulbright has appointed Jana Blount as Director of Client Solutions and Digital Strategy for the Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific (EMEAPAC) region. …