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A look at local AI for law firms, the latest funding and product moves, and why agent security is becoming a bigger concern.
Legal AI is in a race against time
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Plus: Willkie Farr's OpenAI bet, Clifford Chance's Microsoft-built knowledge bank, and why AI photo tools are wrecking bird science.
Why efficiency is becoming legal AI's greatest advantage.
Plus Harvey's latest acquisition, Apple sues OpenAI, chief AI officers arrive in Big Law, and why Meta's new AI safeguards matter.
Who pays when AI gets it wrong?
Plus Grok 4.5s legal win, Harvey's explosive growth, and a remarkable £30 AI project.
Are you selling Software or a Service?
Jake Jones on outcomes vs. software, agentic AI's identity crisis, and his take on the future of legal services.
Big Law's New Hire: The Engineer-Lawyer
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A Mid-Year Review of Legal AI
Plus: Shoosmiths builds with Microsoft, BARBRI buys Lega, and Legora goes to Stamford Bridge.
Notes from Legal Tech Talk 2026
Inside Europe's largest legal tech event.
How this ex GC's frustration with legal software turned into a startup
Brent Farese on agentic search, the GitHub for law, and why legal AI is two years behind coding
Were law firms ever going to use Fable 5?
Plus: Over $40M in new funding rounds, AI enters the Crown Court, Spellbook's new fellowship, and LexisNexis on the podcast.
Kirkland Joins Forces with Palantir
Plus: OpenAI enters the legal vertical, Legora's fourth acquisition, Wordsmith's $70m round, LexisNexis on the podcast, and an AI-designed vaccine
Is owning the data still the moat in Legal AI? Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO of LexisNexis Legal
Sean Fitzpatrick on the data moat, the Harvey partnership, the hallucination problem, and why content plus technology is harder to displace than either alone.
Kirkland’s $500M bet on building its own AI future
Plus: Fried Frank productises precedent, Anthropic ships Opus 4.8, and the legal “digital twin” arrives
The Rise of Shadow AI
Plus: Berkeley Law bans AI brainstorming; Harvey signs DeepJudge; LawX raises €7.5m; Google's AI search forgets it's a search engine.
Anthropic Targets Big Law On The Road To IPO
Anthropic’s new legal tool signals a shift from building AI plumbing to selling enterprise software.
Andrew Thompson on What Legal AI Can Learn From Software Engineering
Andrew on insuring AI, betting on LLMs, and what real estate legal looks like in 2030
Harvey And Legora's Race Beyond Chat To Agentic AI
Plus: Legora buys Graceview in its third acquisition in two months; Moritz raises $9M in four days; Dua Lipa sues Samsung
Microsoft Brings the Fight Inside Word
Plus: Slaughters goes with Harvey; Legora hits $5.6B with NVIDIA backing; LexisNexis moves on Doctrine.