A lawyer told me recently that they would rather use AI than give work to a new junior associate. Here’s how they explained it. The lawyer, whose firm I won’t mention, said that they’ve been ...

The Dickson Poon School of Law at King’s College London has announced a pioneering AI Literacy Programme, giving every law student and staff member free access to legal AI tools such as Legora, Harvey ...

NLPatent, an AI-driven patent research engine and intelligence platform, has raised $3m in a round co-led by Silicon Valley funds Draper Associates and Mighty Capital. (See AL in-depth interview with ...

Clio – a legal business operations company, and vLex – primarily a legal research platform, have finally sealed the deal. Clio has also bagged a lot more cash. But, as the dust settles they face some ...

GC AI, an AI platform for in-house legal teams, today announced it has raised $60m in Series B funding led by Scale Venture Partners and Northzone. Interestingly News Corp also took part. The round ...

Last week there were plenty of key insights shared by the expert speakers at Legal Innovators UK, here are some of the ones that caught AL’s attention, with some added comments and interpretations.

In this week’s Law Punx blast, Oz Benamram at Skills in New York sets out why law firms need to share their knowledge with clients via AI. Since we recorded it Legora has launched its Portal and ...

Last week there were plenty of key insights shared by the expert speakers at Legal Innovators UK. Here are some of the ones that caught … ...

Vesence, backed by Emergence Capital and YC among others, has raised $9m in Seed funding to apply agents to contract review work, with their system operating as ‘a proactive AI reviewer, catching the ...

Robin AI, the pioneering legal tech business, which was quick to combine genAI and human experts for contract review, is laying off staff after disappointing growth. Its recently hired new CTO has ...

Elevate has bought Dutch ALSP Legadex, in its fourth M&A deal since early 2024 – and a clear sign that the ‘law company’ is still on an expansion drive at a time of considerable change in the managed ...

Truth Systems, a California start-up advised by Stanford’s Dr Megan Ma, has raised $4m in Seed funding, with the aim of helping law firms to apply ‘enforceable guardrails’ to AI tools. Artificial ...