This week in legal AI
Two funding rounds in three days, a deployment arm built only for law, and the UK hands its first AI sandbox to legal services. [14 August 2026]
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How in-house legal teams are absorbing more work without more people.
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The agent rollout mistake GCs keep making
Why the requirements document is the wrong starting point, by Taariq Ismail.
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A personal piece: figuring out what AI can't do for me
On being a misfit, shedding the expert label, and the one part of the job I won't hand over. By Lorna Khemraz.
Can you trust your system of record?
Keeping a contract record honest is a full-time job that nobody has, by Jake Jones
The AI budget line that decides your ROI
For GCs and legal ops leaders deciding where the AI budget goes next, by Lorna Khemraz
This week in legal AI
A frontier-lab theft claim, three Gemini models in a single week, and two judges who blinked on AI hallucinations. [24 July 2026]
Are you about to automate the wrong thing?
Sort the pile by what you're doing, not what the document is called, and the right first workflow shows up, by Khaled Baroudi
The agentic contract repository GCs are talking about
The cheapest task in legal never gets done, and it's quietly the most expensive one to skip, by Taariq Ismail
Last week in legal AI
Harvey’s third deal of the year, two governments writing AI audits into law, and 83% of in-house teams who still can’t prove last year’s spend paid off. [17 July 2026]