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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Every litigator has lived it, the nightmare of “fact chaos” when discovery dumps, endless transcripts, buried emails, clinical records, and reports scattered everywhere become a spreadsheet grind. Hours (or days) wasted hunting timelines, cross-checking details, and praying you haven’t missed the one fact that swings the case. Australian legal tech startup Mary Technology just raised
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Why CEO Weinberg Says “We Can’t Win It All” If you blinked in 2025, you probably missed a Harvey funding round. The legal AI darling has spent the year defying gravity (and perhaps logic), closing out December with a fresh $160 million Series F led by a16z that pins its valuation at a staggering $8 billion. For those keeping score
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The LegalAI Marketing Tool Plexus has just lobbed a grenade into the sluggish trench warfare between Legal and Marketing with a new AI compliance tool. Marketing Wizard is the new platform, an extension of Plexus’s legal AI ecosystem, is designed to make compliance feel less like corporate molasses and more like a Formula 1 pit
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Legora Raises $150M Series C to Fuel Explosive Growth in Legal AI Tom Borman, LawFuel contributing editor AI legal platform Legora has closed a $150 million Series C round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, lifting the company to a $1.8 billion valuation and cementing its position as one of the most watched players in the
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The technological transformation sweeping the globe, anchored by artificial intelligence, has no historical counterpart. As businesses race to deploy AI, regulators lag behind, creating a gap between innovation and governance. Ashurst positions itself at the cutting-edge of this shift, advising clients across sectors on the legal and practical implications of AI. Their recent report, Navigating
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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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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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