Articles Posted in January, 2026

Axsar Ltd has announced the launch of three new features for its Axsar Law platform: Contracts Management, Contract Playbooks, and AI-Powered Tabular File Reviews. Designed for law firms and in-house legal teams, the updates enhance contract lifecycle management, standardise contract review through playbooks, and enable efficient analysis of structured data for litigation and M&A matters.

A number of leaders from the legal technology community are joining other legal professionals in an open letter supporting the rule of law.

“Lawyers, judges, and government officials all take an oath to support and defend the constitution,” the letter says. “We write at a moment when constitutional rights and legal norms, long considered stable,…

London-based real estate legal AI platform Orbital has raised $60 million in Series B funding to expand its presence in the U.S. market and build what it envisions as a comprehensive workspace for real estate legal work.

The round was led by New York-based growth fund Brighton Park Capital, with participation from a diverse…

The deadline is fast approaching to pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the 10th-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW in Chicago, March 25-28, 2026. Your votes determine the 15 companies that get the opportunity to face off in a live pitch competition that is the opening-night event of this year’s…

iManage announces the appointment of Mike Eichsteadt as Vice President of AI Engineering, underscoring the company’s continued investment in expanding scalable, practical, and trusted AI capabilities across its platform.

 

In this role, Eichsteadt will continue to advance iManage’s AI capabilities by scaling applied AI and…

Lexology, the world’s leading intelligence platform, has announced a major redesign of its platform, and the launch of a new help centre, aimed at improving user experience for legal professionals worldwide. These improvements are driven by user feedback and reflect Lexology’s commitment to helping professionals work smarter and with greater confidence.

Last week, NetDocuments announced the acquisition of OpenText eDocs, marking a shift in the document management landscape for law firms. In response to this development, Universal Migrator has announced that it is making its complete library of eDocs migration tools available to all NetDocuments consultants globally at no cost.

Universal Migrator’s decision is designed to…

Proven across 1.4 billion documents to help legal and compliance teams gain clarity faster, act smarter, and execute with confidence. 

Seattle– January 21, 2026 — Lighthouse, a global leader in eDiscovery and information governance, today announced the launch of LighthouseIQ, a next-generation intelligence platform and AI application suite. Developed to eliminate…

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, January 21, 2026 — LawDroid, the justice tech company powering AI solutions for legal aid, courts, and government, today announced that Sateesh Nori has joined the company as its first Chief Legal Futurist—the first-of-its-kind role in the legal aid and access to…

Amid the ongoing debate over whether AI will replace lawyers, the legal tech company Eve is offering a different answer: It won’t replace them, but it will autonomously handle much of the routine work they used to do themselves, to give them more time for higher-value legal work.

The company has unveiled Eve 2.0,…

LexisNexis Legal & Professional today announced the commercial preview launch in the United States of a comprehensive set of hundreds of AI workflows within its LexisNexis Protégé AI assistant. The launch combines hundreds of pre-built litigation and transactional workflows with a custom workflow builder in what the company describes as an integrated, private, and secure…

Antidote, an AI-powered billing compliance platform for law firms, announced today it has raised $5 million in seed funding led by Lakestar, with participation from Concept Ventures, The LegalTech Fund, and several unnamed industry angels. The round brings the London-based company’s total funding to $7 million, following a $2 million pre-seed round in 2025.…