AI and the Law

Harvey’s New Brand Campaign

OpenAI also issued an update on incidents in which its models accessed Australian government systems.

OpenAI and Meta’s cutesy AI agents are about to fight to the death.

One of the recurring themes of this column has been the extent to which the governance of artificial intelligence in Canada is increasingly being shaped by institutions outside the country while regulatory action within the country is largely stalled. Anthropic’s recent announcement that future versions of Claude will place an invisible watermark in generated text […]

There is no best model. The frontier is jagged. Advancements are constant, surprising, and uneven.

Alesis, an AI assistant grounded solely in the laws of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and which checks its answers “exhaustively”

Attorneys and developers at law firms are impressed with the configuration's capabilities, but limited access means its impact will be gradual.

Clio has been preparing to make a move into the judicial market.

Former Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice joins Clio to lead the company’s growth in the judiciary.

OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, its new flagship model and their most capable LLM yet for end-to-end tasks. Both Harvey and Legora have provided some insights into how it benefits legal AI, (see b…

Legal intelligence platform, Chamelio, has launched Agent Hub, which lets inhouse lawyers use a suite of ‘always-on AI agents’ that can work independently, monitor what is happening inside the busi…

Harvey has just raised $550m at a $15.5 billion valuation. Legora is understood to be hoping to raise another major round at a $10 billion valuation – but that is unconfirmed. So, where do they bot…

Legora is ramping up its legal research capabilities by offering ‘a full ontology of law and an AI-native citator’. The move follows deals with Qura and Wexler. The ontology is currently in l…

Checkbox, a legal front door for corporates, has launched First Pass, marking a move into contract review – and which builds upon its platform for inhouse teams. (See AL interview with Evan Wong, C…

Yesterday, ‘Google Legal’ gave an inside look at how Gemini Enterprise can be deployed for lawyers, from everyday prompting, to NotebookLM use, to custom app development. Artificial Law…

After plenty of waiting, OpenAI has launched Astra for Law, a ‘new offering powered by GPT-6 Astra with tools, settings, and context to support the expertise and judgment of lawyers and legal techn…

By Deepak Kapoor, CEO, Manupatra. The legal AI conversation has, understandably, been dominated by models. Which model reasons better? Which has the larger context window? Which performs best on le…

Harvey is launching its first ever TV commercials, which will run on ESPN, NBC, Amazon, Netflix, HBO Max and other channels. The theme is ‘agreements are foundational to the legal profession’. See …

Clio has bought Learned Hand, an AI company focused on supporting judges and the courts. The move is part of its wider strategy to build within the judiciary segment of the market, which has includ…

Humans have been quietly compensating for this gap for years. AI will make it visible.

Nearly two-thirds of employees in a global survey said their company is more interested in using artificial intelligence to create efficiency than to add value, leading many to feel like they’re doing two jobs while struggling to find time to produce meaningful results.

The partnership integrates Suralink with Thomson Reuters CoCounsel Tax, Audit & Accounting and Engagement Manager.

Zuora has launched Supervised Mode, which allows Zuora AI to propose actions that modify Zuora data while a human reviews and approves each change before it runs.

The tax, audit, client accounting, and advisory platform for accounting firms has unveiled Arc, an AI agent platform that allows firms to delegate complex, multi-step work across their existing systems.

Big Four firm KPMG introduced this week the Client Technology & Innovation group, which was formed to develop AI-native businesses and quickly scale new product offerings.

The agents mark Trintech’s shift from AI that surfaces insights to AI that executes the work itself.