Robin’s Legal Tech Backfire Robin AI, the poster child for the “AI meets law” revolution, is learning the hard way that venture capital fairy dust doesn’t guarantee happily-ever-after. The London-based legal tech firm, once proudly waving its genAI-plus-human-experts flag, is now cutting staff after growth dreams collided with the brick wall of economic reality. The […]
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Lincoln Lawyer AI Copyright Case Ben Borman, LawFuel contributing editor Lincoln Lawyer creator Michael Connelly has joined other bestselling authors like John Grisham to battle OpenAI and its ChatGPT empire in an alleged ‘book heist’. The class action involves not only Connelly and Grisham, two of the world’s bestselling writers, but also other names including
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Media reports show a new funding surge for plaintiff side legal AI with EvenUp and Eve raising rounds that put both firms at or above the billion mark. EvenUp closed one hundred and fifty million and says most new revenue comes from AI products for demand letters and prep, Reuters report. Eve raised over one
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Amsterdam/Oslo, October 2, 2025 – Saga has raised over €1.5 million in a seed round, backed by Dutch and Norwegian investors. Saga is a lawyer-centric AI platform designed to orchestrate the full lifecycle of legal work. It offers transparent AI assistants, legal databases, and agentic workflows, enabling legal professionals to deliver faster and higher-quality work. In addition to a
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Plaintiff firms just got their own AI arms dealer. San Francisco startup Eve raised $103 million (Series B) at a $1 billion valuation to fuel AI for plaintiffs’ firms. Led by Spark Capital with a16z, Lightspeed, and Menlo piling in. Eve now claims 450+ law firm customers, touts tools for case evaluation, demand letter drafting,
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The Role of Junior Lawyers in the Age of AI Norma Harris, LawFuel contributor Business Insider reports that Harvey’s chief executive Winston Weinberg, himeelf not long out of the junior lawyer blocks, told TechLaw Fest that junior lawyers remain central to the future of legal work as AI changes training and tasking. Business Insider The
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FT Innovative Lawyers Awards Global law firm Freshfields has been recognised as the Most Innovative Law Firm in Europe at the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Awards Europe 2025. Hosted last night at the Natural History Museum in London, it recognised the firm’s work across multiple areas, assessed against four metrics: innovation, digital, people and social responsibility.
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How Data Science Is Rewriting Big Law Playbooks Tom Borman, LawFuel contributing editor When Cleary Gottlieb snapped up Springbok AI earlier this year it signalled something big: law firms are no longer just buying technology, they’re building it too. AI in law is big business. That transaction brought ten data scientists into Cleary’s fold and
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Is Italy Reining in The AI Wild West? Ben Thomson, LawFuel contributor Italy has just made history. Its parliament passed a sweeping AI law, becoming the first member of the EU to implement comprehensive national regulation that mirrors and, in many respects, outdoes the EU’s AI Act. Reuters report that the new regime emphasizes human-centred,
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September 15, 2025 — Stanford, CA — Stanford Law School today announced the launch of the Legal Innovation through Frontier Technology Lab, or liftlab, to explore how artificial intelligence can reshape legal services—not just to make them faster and cheaper, but better and more widely accessible. Led by Professor Julian Nyarko and Executive Director Megan Ma, liftlab is among the
