The legal AI company Harvey said today that it has raised another $550 million at a $15.5 billion valuation, co-led by Diffusion and Lightspeed.

By my calculations, that puts the total amount Harvey has raised since its 2022 launch at north of $1.5 billion.

Other investors participating in this round were Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, a16z,…

Bridget M. McCormack, the former chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court who joined the American Arbitration Association in 2023 as its president and CEO, helping to spearhead the AAA’s innovation efforts, particularly with regard to its adoption of generative AI, has announced she is stepping down from that role.

Steve Errick, the AAA’s…

Calling it the “intelligence foundation” of its platform, Casepoint today launched Casepoint IQ, a suite of tools within a single AI framework that spans the company’s products for e-discovery, legal holds, FOIA and investigations.

The company says that Casepoint IQ pulls together all of its AI capabilities – including new semi- and fully autonomous…

Chronologies have become one of legal tech’s hottest categories, with a wave of AI startups promising to turn a messy evidentiary record into a structured timeline in minutes. Jeff Kerr and his company Casefleet were more than a decade ahead of the pack.

Kerr finished law school in 2010 and made what he calls the…

Last week’s ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, brought what may have been the busiest news cycle I can remember for this conference, with a torrent of product announcements dominated by two themes: agentic AI and the Model Context Protocol.

I have already covered the conference and several of the…

Last week, our Legaltech Week crew presented a live panel at ILTACON discussing our takeaways from the week and the top stories and trends we observed. I recorded it on my iPhone and that recording is now posted, and it’s pasted below.

Meanwhile, we’re back again today, live on Zoom at our usual time…

Last week’s ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, brought what may have been the busiest news cycle I can remember for this conference, with a torrent of product announcements dominated by two themes: agentic AI and the Model Context Protocol.

I have already covered the conference and several of the…

Last week’s ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, brought what may have been the busiest news cycle I can remember for this conference, with a torrent of product announcements dominated by two themes: agentic AI and the Model Context Protocol.

I have already covered the conference and several of the…

Last week’s ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, brought what may have been the busiest news cycle I can remember for this conference, with a torrent of product announcements dominated by two themes: agentic AI and the Model Context Protocol.

I have already covered the conference and several of the…

The legal technology company Filevine has launched an AI-native citator and a companion brief-checking tool inside LOIS, its Legal Operating Intelligence System AI platform, that its CEO says perform as well as or better than the leading legal citators from LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters.

The citator has two core features. One checks a filed…

Pablo Arredondo, the Casetext cofounder who helped build some of the earliest and most influential applications of AI in legal practice, is joining Clio as senior vice president, judiciary, where he will lead the company’s strategy for extending its technology into the courts. In this episode of LawNext,…