LexisNexis Opens Customer Innovation Lab in New York to Bring Customers, Engineers and AI Companies Together to Build Legal AI in Real Time

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LexisNexis Legal & Professional today announced the opening of its Customer Innovation Lab in New York City, a physical space where legal professionals, LexisNexis engineers, and AI technology partners including OpenAI and Amazon Web Services work side by side to design, prototype and test new legal AI capabilities – sometimes iterating on an idea…

Microsoft’s Own Legal Department Will Use Harvey, As the Two Companies Deepen Their Alliance

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Microsoft’s legal department is becoming a Harvey customer.

The legal AI company Harvey announced today that Microsoft’s Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs (CELA) organization — the roughly 2,000-person unit that houses the company’s lawyers and compliance professionals — will use the Harvey platform to support its legal and compliance operations.

As part of the same…

What’s In A Wrapper? Comparing A Hershey Bar To LegalTech AI

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Anyone can make sweets, but not everyone can make a Hershey bar.

The debate over legaltech startups offering nothing more than a “thin wrapper” around an LLM begs a deeper analysis of the value of a wrapper, particularly as open-source alternatives take root.

Let’s start with a Hershey bar. You pay for the chocolate, right?…

Intapp Makes Celeste Generally Available, Calling It An ‘AI Coworker’ To Run the Business Side of Law Firms

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Intapp, the publicly traded company whose software manages intake, conflicts, and deal workflows for law firms and other professional services firms, yesterday announced the general availability of Celeste, an agentic AI product it describes as an “expert AI coworker” designed to run the business operations of a firm — from deal screening and conflicts…