Legal AI

US Supreme Court FTC Ruling Raises Fresh Threat to EU–US Data Transfers

Briefings, Featured, Legal AI, Press Releases / June 30, 2026

The US Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Trump v. Slaughter has triggered renewed scrutiny of the legal foundations underpinning EU–US data transfers, with potential long-term consequences for law firms, multinational clients, and legal tech providers relying on cross-border data flows. At the centre of the issue is the status of the US Federal Trade Commission […]

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Shoosmiths Launches Microsoft-linked AI Contract Review Platform

Briefings, Legal AI, Press Releases / June 25, 2026

Shoosmiths has launched “Project Apollo”, a proprietary generative AI contract review platform developed with Microsoft and deployed on Azure, designed to speed contract review while embedding the firm’s own deal record and know‑how into every matter. The tool is positioned as both a productivity engine and a training accelerator for junior lawyers, with senior lawyers

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Tech and LegalAI Startup Combine To Create Top Tools To Help Legal Decision-Making

Briefings, Legal AI, Press Releases / June 24, 2026

US-based legaltech firm Consilio has joined forces with startup legalAI company Eudia to use its tech experience and expertise to develop new legaltech tools designed to assist lawyers in key decision-making. Emron Pratt, Consilio’s chief strategy officer said – “Our clients are asking for AI that works reliably at the scale and complexity of enterprise

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Bar Prep Meets GenAI

Featured, Law schools, Legal AI / June 23, 2026

BARBRI Swallows Startup ‘Lega’ To Teach Lawyers How To Talk To Robots Sonia Hickey “AI fluency” is now part of joining the bar before lawyers are let loose on the billable hour. BARBRI. The bar prep behemoth that still haunts your stress dreams has just acquired Lega, a generative AI platform founded by legal tech

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AI Won’t Hollow Out the Graduates, Says eBay’s Legal Chief

LawFuel Jobs, LawStars, Lawyers, Legal AI / June 22, 2026

Samantha Wellington, eBay’s senior vice president and chief legal officer, thinks the profession is panicking about the wrong people. AI will not gut the graduate ranks, she argues, because the AI-native juniors are the ones teaching firms how to rebuild their workflows. The lawyers who should be nervous are the mid-career middle managers, and anyone

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Turbo Law’s USD 3.8m Raise Signals Next Wave of AI Defence Litigation Tools

Law Firm Technology, Legal AI, Power Briefs, Press Releases / June 20, 2026

Legal technology startup Turbo Law has secured USD 3.8 million in seed funding as investors continue to back AI tools built specifically for complex defence litigation and insurance work. The round was led by Revo Capital, with participation from existing backers Treeo VC, BridgeX Ventures, Alchemist Accelerator, prominent technology executive Gokul Rajaram, and a cohort

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Berkeley Law’s AI Crackdown vs. Reality: Who’s Training the Next Generation of Prompt Monkeys?

Briefings, Law schools, Legal AI, US Law / June 18, 2026

Sonia Hickey, LawFuel contributing editor At UC Berkeley School of Law, the future of lawyering is apparently… 1996 with better stationery. Beginning Summer 2026, Berkeley Law’s new Artificial Intelligence Policy makes prohibition the institutional default. The rule is clear – no AI to “conceptualize, outline, draft, revise, translate, or edit” any work submitted for credit.

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Legal AI – ‘Architect’ of Law Firm DEI Programs Dissolves

Legal AI, Press Releases / June 18, 2026

Diversity Lab LLC, a for-profit diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) consultancy, has permanently ceased operations following a Federal Trade Commission investigation. The company informed the FTC that it filed paperwork to dissolve itself as a business entity with the California Secretary of State on Friday. Earlier this year, the FTC opened a formal inquiry into

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The AI Question BigLaw Doesn’t Want Junior Lawyers Asking

Featured, Law Firms, Law Job News, Legal AI / June 14, 2026

Generative AI has arrived inside BigLaw carrying a question that no one is quite ready to answer out loud: if the technology can do what junior associates do, what exactly are junior associates for? It is the most uncomfortable conversation in the legal profession right now and it is only getting louder from what we

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Relativity’s Legal AI Play Takes Aim at Microsoft Word

Briefings, Legal AI, Press Releases / June 13, 2026

Relativity is making a play for one of the last pieces of legal work that has remained stubbornly outside the legal AI ecosystem, Microsoft Word. Its acquisition of Gavel signals a push to connect legal intelligence, document drafting and matter management into a single workflow, potentially eliminating the gap between the evidence lawyers analyse and

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