CLM-ish
LegalOn Goes ‘CLM-ish’ With Contract Vault
LegalOn has launched Vault in the US and Europe, expanding the AI company’s wealth of features around contract management and analysis to the point where …
Private AI
Soren Launches To Deliver ‘Private AI’
Soren, which is backed by Y Combinator, has launched what it calls ‘private AI’ aimed at regulated sectors that deal with highly sensitive information. They …
Legal Data
Noxtua Integrates US Legal Data in Partnership with Midpage
Europe’s ‘sovereign legal AI’ platform, Noxtua – which CMS and Dentons have invested in – and the legal research startup Midpage, are partnering to combine …
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 …