Articles Posted in May, 2026

Last week, when Anthropic released its biggest legal push to date — more than 20 MCP connectors, 12 practice-area plugins,a and integrations with Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint — much of the coverage focused on what the announcement means for law firms, in-house teams, and the legal tech ecosystem. That is where the…

As client pressure on AI strategy intensifies across legal, new Litera research reveals firms are struggling to demonstrate AI value, while ROI is the least important factor driving decisions

CHICAGO – May 20, 2026 – Litera, the legal AI platform provider that best unifies the practice and business of law,…

Open-source Legal Aid Plugin for Claude is built for civil legal aid, court self-help, and access-to-justice organizations

VANCOUVER, BC – May 20, 2026 — LawDroid today announced the release of the Legal Aid Plugin, a free, open-source plugin built specifically for civil legal aid organizations, court self-help programs,…

As legal AI company Harvey kicks off the two-day Harvey Forum today in New York City, it is announcing the launch of Command Center, a new product designed to help law firms and legal teams manage, measure, and optimize enterprise AI adoption.

In addition, Harvey today announced a partnership with legal AI company

In last week’s Claude-pocalypse, Anthropic, one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies, released 12 legal-specific plugins for its Claude AI assistant. It was big news, signalling a frontier AI company’s deeper push into the legal space.

Notably, however, not one of those plugins was designed for legal aid. Rather, they covered legal tasks…

Harvey, the legal AI company whose valuation recently hit $11 billion, recently released what it is calling the Legal Agent Benchmark, or LAB — an open-source evaluation framework designed to measure how well AI agents can perform extended, real-world legal work rather than the discrete reasoning tasks that have dominated legal AI benchmarks to…

Governed, auditable access to iManage content for AI replaces fragmented custom integrations, eliminates vendor lock-in, and keeps sensitive knowledge secure inside the iManage platform

CHICAGO — May 14, 2026 — iManage, the company dedicated to Making Knowledge Work™, today announced iManage MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server, a standardized,…

A five-month-old Swedish startup that says its AI agents can do the heavy lifting of patent invalidity and infringement analysis has raised a $10.5 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz, one of the world’s most prominent venture capital firms, the company is announcing today.

Stockholm-based Stilta, founded in December 2025 by four former…

The American Association of Law Libraries has named Thomson Reuters CoCounsel Legal the recipient of its 2026 New Product Award, the organization announced yesterday.

AALL’s New Product Award recognizes commercial information products that enhance law library services or improve access to legal information and the research process. To be eligible, products must…

EvenUp, the personal injury AI company that reached a $2 billion valuation last fall, is making a significant shift in its business model – one that extends it beyond software vendor to something closer to an outsourced operations partner for PI firms.

The San Francisco-based company announced yesterday the launch of what it calls…

A new legal technology product called eDig365 is making its public debut this week at the CLOC Global Institute in Chicago, offering a reporting and observability layer built on top of Microsoft Purview eDiscovery.

The product is designed to address a gap that its founders say is common in corporate legal departments.…

SEATTLE, May 13, 2026–Lighthouse, a global leader in eDiscovery and information governance, is pleased to announce that it has been named a Tier 1 provider of eDiscovery services in Legal 500’s inaugural list of Dispute Services rankings. Lighthouse is one of only five providers to earn Tier 1 recognition.