The legal industry is turning into a battleground for the two dominant frontier AI companies.
Less than a month ago, Anthropic — developer of the Claude AI assistant — took a major step into the legal market, releasing more than 20 MCP connectors linking Claude to the software that law firms and legal departments…
Aiming to curtail the glut of court filings containing hallucinated legal citations, the Florida Supreme Court today issued a new rule that requires the signer of any document filed in any Florida court to represent that “the legal authorities identified exist and are accurately cited.”
The court’s order (Opinion_SC2026-0673) also adds a rule that…
For Illinois attorneys who are curious about trying artificial intelligence for contract review, now is their chance to do it for free.
The Illinois State Bar Association and the AI contract review platform SimpleDocs said today that they have entered into a partnership to give ISBA members free 30-day access to the SimpleDocs’…
The legal system has a blind spot, often failing to recognize risk until a lawsuit is filed. By that point, it is too late to mitigate and the only course is to react.
That is the premise of Darrow, a company that built its early reputation by scanning the web to surface potential class…
UC Berkeley School of Law has adopted one of the most restrictive student AI policies of any top law school, barring the use of generative AI for nearly every step of producing graded work — and prohibiting it outright in any exam. The policy takes effect this summer.
The rule, which the school released…
Last month, I wrote about the pushback by employees, shareholders and others against Thomson Reuters over its contracts to sell law enforcement data to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), primarily through two products: CLEAR (Consolidated Lead Evaluation and Reporting), which provides personal data from a variety of public and non-public sources, and license…
iManage used the opening of its annual ConnectLive user conference in Chicago earlier this week to introduce what it describes as the next evolution of its document- and knowledge-management platform, a redesign the company says is built to make institutional knowledge usable by AI systems while keeping governance and security controls in place.
The…
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 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…
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…
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