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…
Harvey Launches ‘Command Center’ for Managing Enterprise AI Adoption, and Partners with DeepJudge on Institutional Knowledge
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
The Claude-pocalypse Bypassed Legal Aid; LawDroid’s New Plugin Remedies That, with 15 Targeted Skills
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…
Some Thoughts On Harvey’s Launch of ‘LAB,’ An Open-Source, Long-Horizon Benchmark for Legal AI Agents
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…
Stilta, A Swedish Startup Bringing Agentic AI To Patent Litigation, Raises $10.5M Seed Led By Andreessen Horowitz
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…
Law Librarians Name Thomson Reuters CoCounsel As Winner Of 2026 New Product Award
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…
eDig365 Aims To Gives Legal Teams Reporting and Visibility within Microsoft Purview E-Discovery
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.…
NetDocuments Unveils Legal Context Graph to Map Legal Knowledge, Alongside A ‘Reimagined’ Platform
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…
Justice Technology Association Named Access to Justice Partner in Anthropic’s Legal AI Launch
The Justice Technology Association (JTA), a nonprofit trade group representing mission-driven companies focused on the access to justice crisis, announced today that it has joined Anthropic as a launch partner in what Anthropic is calling its first comprehensive legal vertical initiative.
The announcement comes as part of a much-broader announcement by Anthropic of its…
Two Legal Research Providers Launch MCP Integrations with Claude: Thomson Reuters and Free Law Project Connect Their Data to AI
Two legal research providers — one a global publicly traded corporation, the other a relatively scrappy nonprofit — are today both announcing integrations with Anthropic’s Claude that allow the AI assistant to tap directly into their legal databases.
While the announcements from Thomson Reuters and Free Law Project’s CourtListener arrive on the same…
Anthropic Goes All-In on Legal, Releasing More Than 20 Connectors and 12 Practice-Area Plugins for Claude
Anthropic today took its biggest step yet into the legal market, releasing more than 20 new MCP connectors linking Claude to the software that law firms and legal departments run on, along with 12 new plugins tailored to specific legal practice areas.
Today’s announcement builds on the legal plugin Anthropic released in early February…
Aderant Introduces Agent Center at Momentum Global, Targeting Law Firm Back-Office Operations with AI
Aderant, the Atlanta-based legal business management software company, used its Momentum Global 2026 conference this week to unveil the Aderant Agent Center — a new framework for deploying AI agents across law firm financial and operational workflows.
The Agent Center, built on the company’s Stridyn platform and powered by its MADDI AI layer, launches…
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