Articles Posted in 2026

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.

The Descrybe Legal Engine gives Claude a verified legal data layer, making AI-assisted legal research and  reasoning more powerful, reliable, and accessible. 

Boston, MA — May 12, 2026 — Descrybe today launched the Descrybe Legal Engine for Claude, a  connector that brings 300 million structured U.S. primary law records and the…

NetDocuments today announced what it calls the first legal context graph — a proprietary knowledge infrastructure that the company says continuously maps the relationships among every matter, document, communication and person across a firm’s entire document repository, while preserving existing permissions and ethical walls.

Alongside it, the company is launching a substantial redesign of…

New Ask iManage feature automatically applies your corporate legal team’s playbooks to every contract review – all within the secure iManage environment

iManage, the company dedicated to Making Knowledge Work™, today announced at the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) Global Institute in Chicago that playbook analysis in…

Amid all the hubbub yesterday around Claude for legal, Clio quietly slipped in a notable story of its own: that it has now surpassed $500 million in annual recurring revenue.

Since few legal tech companies are public, it is hard to know where that puts Clio on the overall revenue landscape. But based…

The long-running copyright litigation between legal research giant Thomson Reuters and now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS Intelligence took another interesting turn this week, following the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ order that the parties file supplemental briefs addressing the impact of its recent ruling in American Society for Testing & Materials v. UpCodes, Inc.…