Anthropic’s Claude for Legal Puts BigLaw‑Grade AI on a Small Firm Budget Norma Harris Anthropic has finally taken the wraps off Claude for Legal – a suite of 12 practice‑area plugins, 20+ MCP connectors into mainstream legal systems, and deep Microsoft 365 integration – and it lands squarely in the workflows where lawyers actually live. […]
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Neal Katyal, the superstar legal hotshot, set off a minor legal‑Twitter firestorm by posting a victory‑lap tweet and TED‑talk teaser crediting a bespoke AI tool, “Harvey,” with helping him win the Supreme Court tariffs case—a bit of self‑branding that many lawyers found tone‑deaf and over‑the‑top. A subsequent reader poll by David Lat found roughly 70
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AI is Eating the Entry-level Lunch For years, partners have whispered about how many juniors they actually need if a machine can read 10,000 documents in an hour. This week, MinterEllison in Australia stopped whispering and started acting. The firm has effectively put the Australian legal market on notice, slashing its 2025-26 graduate intake by
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Legal AI Just Went All Hollywood The legal technology sector has seen plenty of bold claims. But very few startups have had the audacity — or the funding — to enlist a People magazine Sexiest Man Alive to sell AI software to managing partners. Swedish legal AI company Legora is doing exactly that. “We felt
The acquisition adds a critical new layer to Legora’s platform: real-time visibility into regulatory change. Regulation is growing more complex, more global, and more consequential every year and the tools available to legal and compliance teams to track it have failed to keep pace. Graceview was built to replace the patchwork of fragmented, noisy sources
In an industry where “integration” is often a buzzword for a clunky API, Smokeball and Thomson Reuters have announced a partnership that actually moves the needle. By embedding TR’s CoCounsel Legal AI directly into Smokeball’s practice management ecosystem, the two giants are attempting to bridge the historic chasm between the business of law and the
Docusign, the world’s most trusted Intelligent Agreement Management (IAM) company, and Harvey, the leading AI platform for legal and professional services, today announced a strategic partnership that connects Harvey’s legal reasoning platform with Docusign’s IAM contract AI platform, enabling legal teams to move from business insights to action across the full agreement lifecycle. Together, the
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Rachel Williams We all know that every billable minute counts in BigLaw, but the biggest productivity killers often hide in plain sight: glacial tech that turns simple tasks into ordeals. A recent viral rant captured it perfectly — one associate reported it took a staggering 13 minutes just to open a single Word document from
By Sebastian Niles is a former M&A lawyer and current President and Chief Legal Officer at Salesforce Law is a noble profession, and it’s a business. Today, AI is no longer a future capability — it’s the enabler and catalyst for a fundamental shift in how law and professional services firms create value, drive top-line growth, manage
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Manual Ayala – Law firm AI creator and manager and owner of AI Vortex The BigLaw AI exodus everyone’s citing is six people at one firm. The bigger story is what happens when private capital decides it has a better theory of legal services than law firms do. Ten named partners have left BigLaw for
