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Court rules, regulator actions and decisions on AI in Australian legal practice, with the source and the related court, rule and tool pages.
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ASIC banking sector priorities 2026–27 include AI review
Supervisory letter to banks; AI governance review expected to start Q2 2026-27.
OAIC resources on AI and automated-decision transparency (APP 1 from 10 Dec 2026)
APP entities must disclose computer-program decisions significantly affecting individuals in privacy policies from 10 Dec 2026; APP 1 guidelines v2.0 dated 30 Sep 2026.
Federal Court rejects AI-hallucination claim in defamation case; lawyer referral reported
Australasian Lawyer social post; primary judgment not located.
Queensland workplace court and commission inundated with AI-assisted litigants
AFR reports QIRC concerns about fake cases from self-represented AI users (page paywalled/moved; snippet only).
Australian Lawyers Alliance submission to Joint Select Committee on AI
Covers AI use in legal practice and protections against AI-enabled fraud and deepfakes.
PM&C consultation on AI laws "in Australia's interests"
Consultation follows the PM's 15 July 2026 announcement that the government will introduce AI laws.
Children's Court of NSW Practice Note 21 on Gen AI commences
Issued 4 Sep 2026; adopts Supreme Court SC Gen 23 for all Children's Court proceedings.
Queensland Supreme Court rejects ChatGPT answer as evidence of ordinary meaning
Inspired Medical Pty Ltd v S Mohindra Pty Ltd [2026] QSC 78: party relied on ChatGPT for meaning of "medical centre" in a lease.
NSW District Court Generative AI practice note (criminal) listed
District Court practice-notes page updated 4 Sep 2026 listing General Practice Note 2 – Generative AI.
SA Legal Profession Conduct Commissioner fact sheet on complainants using AI
Fact sheet on complaints prepared with Gemini, Copilot, ChatGPT etc.
Lee J orders parties to confer with expert on AI for evidence preparation
In a McDonald's Fair Work dispute (Vic registry), s 37P(2) orders require parties by 6 Nov 2026 to investigate AI for collating data, chronologies and document management.
Government releases draft privacy reform legislation citing AI risks
Attorney-General releases consultation paper and draft legislation to modernise the Privacy Act, citing AI risks.
ASIC and APRA warn frontier AI awareness must turn to action
Joint release 26-201MR following ASIC's 8 May 2026 cyber-resilience call.
National Cabinet endorses nationally consistent mandatory AI standards work
Reported endorsement on 26 Aug 2026 of nationally consistent mandatory standards.
ART publishes Generative AI Practice Direction
President Kyrou J signed the ART practice direction on Gen AI on 20 Aug 2026; published 24 Aug.
Fair Work Commission finalises Gen AI guidance note (effective 20 Oct 2026)
Final guidance note after 28 submissions on a March 2026 draft: anyone using Gen AI for a Commission document must disclose and verify citations from 20 Oct 2026.
Lee J speech: "All the right notes – AI and the future of the common law"
Federal Court judge's speech on AI and the common law.
Lawyers Weekly: AI misuse now a fixture of disciplinary investigations
Feature on AI misuse in courts and disciplinary matters a year after the first Australian sanction.
Fair Work unfair dismissal claim dismissed over AI-fabricated case law
Claim dismissed after AI-generated submissions cited non-existent and irrelevant cases.
FCFCOA judge tests ChatGPT, signals "sterner response" to AI submissions
Judge Humphreys disclosed ChatGPT admitted fabricating details of his decision; dismissed a student-visa review application with AI-generated submissions.
Tax Practitioners Board issues TPB(GS) 55/2026 on AI and the Code
Guidance on tax practitioners' TASA Code obligations when using AI.
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OpenAI faces suits for harming kids in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia
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Legaltech Rundown: Goodwin Expands Partnership With Microsoft, Thomson Reuters Rolls Out Cocounsel Legal Globally, and More
An update on the legal tech market’s past week, from product launches to new partnerships.
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Legal Innovators New York Sponsors, Spellbook Webinar +
Welcome to this week’s Wrap, which starts with the unveiling of our awesome sponsors for the landmark Legal Innovators New York conference in Midtown, on ...
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AI cases are focusing more on how systems act after deployment: J.S. Held analysis
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AI and dynamic pricing: The legal challenges facing Australian businesses
With AI-driven pricing more prevalent, lawyers must grapple with algorithms that adjust prices based on consumer behaviour, demand, and market conditions.
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Microsoft Copilot for Legal: What Will Be the Fallout?
Microsoft has fully launched itself into the legal vertical with Copilot for Legal, an AI-powered venture with over 20 skills that overlap with plenty of ...
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Lineal Acquires E-Discovery, Forensics Company Forentec
After the acquisition, Lineal intends to increase its digital research capabilities and broaden its reach in Switzerland.
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Microsoft Launches Copilot for Legal – Brace for Impact!
Microsoft – the software company the world’s lawyers rely upon because of Word – has gone nuclear and launched Copilot for Legal, its own multi-capability ...
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Microsoft Launches Legal Skills Within Copilot, Furthering Move Into Legal Tech
Copilot for legal, a set of more than 20 purpose-built legal skills, consists of plugins for Microsoft Word and Microsoft's agentic AI offering Cowork.
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ByteDance Case Signals Tough Road Ahead for Big Tech in Europe
An EU court adviser’s recommendation to uphold TikTok owner ByteDance’s gatekeeper status could make it harder for Meta, Apple and other tech giants to challenge their own designations, reinforcing the EU’s power to enforce rules that shape how the world’s biggest digital platforms operate and compete.
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Control Risks Spins Off E-Discovery and Investigations Business Lines
The new company will be backed by Beringer Capital, with plans for targeted investments in technology and human capital.
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Mass Action Startup Chariot Claims Announces $10M Series A Round
The startup, which links claimants to relevant mass actions, plans to use the funding to expand its claim coverage and automate its matching and verification processes.
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Legal Innovators New York – Speakers + Tickets Info
Legal Innovators New York, the landmark legal innovation conference on November 17 and 18 in Midtown, can now reveal some of our excellent speakers – ...
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eBrevia Launches ‘Command’ Contract Management Platform
Inhouse-focused legal AI pioneer, eBrevia, has launched ‘Command’, a contract management platform that ‘helps users understand what’s in their agreements, identify what needs attention and ...
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Legora Seeks Centrality With 30+ Integrations Ecosystem
Legora is seeking to secure its ‘centrality’ within a lawyer’s working life via the strategy of building a large-scale integration ecosystem, (see list below). In ...
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Old Problems, New Tools: Maybe You Need a Knowledge Strategy
By Patrick DiDomenico, Founder and CEO, LegalTech Connect. I have been using a phrase in conversations over the past year that I keep coming back ...
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How Law Firms Are Strategizing for Consumption-Based AI Pricing
With legal tech companies potentially switching from seat-based to consumption-based pricing, firms are beginning to think about how to keep the cost of AI down.
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AI Innovation and PTAB Shifts Rewrite Patent Litigation Playbook for US Companies
The survey findings suggest that companies are becoming more selective about PTAB filings, investing more in upfront patent-validity analysis and district court litigation.
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AI Could Kill the Junior Lawyer Pipeline; Is Banning it the Answer?
As artificial intelligence takes the lead on research, drafting, and document review, law firms are grappling with how junior lawyers can develop skills traditionally learned through years of repetitive work.
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Paul Weiss, Columbia Law School Launch Collaborative Gen AI Initiative
Columbia Law School, with support from Paul Weiss, has launched an initiative to integrate responsible generative AI use into legal education through new curricula, research and multidisciplinary collaboration.
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Goodwin Partner Launches US AI-Native Law Firm Arm
Leon Johnson, most recently a partner at Goodwin in San Francisco and previously a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, is joining Omnilex, an AI-native law ...
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Associates Are On the Front Lines of AI Use. For Those Opting In, Promise Trumps Fear
A number of associates who are rolling up their sleeves told Law.com that legal AI has been a benefit to their work—a counterpoint to Law.com data revealing that many midlevels view technology replacing humans as the biggest threat to their jobs.
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Harvey Launches Intake for Inhouse Teams
Harvey has launched Intake, its new legal front door for the inhouse world, which not only helps to funnel contracts to the right lawyers, but ...
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From AI Tools to Agentic AI – A Roadmap
By Paul Walker, Global Solutions Director, iManage. Law firms have always delegated work to those with less experience, lower billing rates, and narrower scope: partners ...
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Lawyers warned: Your next client has probably already asked ChatGPT
AI is reshaping the legal client journey, changing how Australians understand their legal problems, prepare for advice, and engage with lawyers before they ever walk through the door.
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The contract intelligence gap: The value businesses fail to see
Luminance has released a report titled The State of Contract Intelligence, which highlights that the intelligence gap is not about what businesses possess but about how effectively they utilise it.
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Harvey prepares next-gen lawyers for an AI-driven world, expands into Tokyo
Legal software company Harvey has reinforced its focus on legal education and nurturing its international presence, rolling out its software to 100 law schools and opening a new office in Asia.
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LawVu Lens to provide greater visibility to in-house teams
In-house technology platform LawVu has introduced LawVu Lens, an artificial intelligence tool that provides greater visibility across portfolios.
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AI-using cricket club ordered to pay indemnity costs
“Sadly for the applicant, the present case is a salutary lesson in the pitfalls in using AI absent legal skills,” Judge Brown said. The post AI-using cricket club ordered to pay indemnity costs appeared first on Proctor .
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Lawyers’ judgement becoming ‘more valuable, not less’ in age of AI
As AI reshapes legal services, one BigLaw executive has reinforced that firms must balance practical adoption and responsible governance while ensuring human judgement remains key to the future of law.
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Italian Court Orders Google to Overhaul Right-to-Be-Forgotten Process in Latest European Setback
The Italian ruling is the latest for Google in Europe, amid legal action and multimillion-dollar fines
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Legora Launches Agentic AI Intake Feature for In-House Teams
Legora Intake is designed to field requests, assign tasks and initiate legal work on behalf of corporate legal teams.
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Steno Launches Litigation Genius + Product Walk Through
Steno, the AI-enabled court reporting and litigation support company, has launched the open beta of Litigation Genius – see AL TV Product Walk Through below. ...
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Wilson Sonsini Spinoff SixFifty Launches Employment Law AI Agent
The agent is designed to help users draft jurisdiction-appropriate employment documents and perform other HR compliance tasks.
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Chinese Company Launches Legal-Specific LLM
Chinese company Z.ai, which created the GLM models, has launched a legal-specific LLM that has been ‘mid-trained’ and post-trained to handle a range of tasks ...
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Legatics Connects to Harvey + Anthony Seale Interview
Legatics, the transaction management platform, has joined Harvey’s Connector Library, creating a unified deal experience for lawyers. To explain how it all works and what ...
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AI Utilization Is 'Skyrocketing,' but Law Firms Aren’t Sweating Consumption Pricing
"I wouldn’t say it’s concerning,” said Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer chief AI officer Ilona Logvinova. “There are a number of unknowns that can be comforting or less comforting.”
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Legora Increases Inhouse Focus with Intake
Legora has increased its focus on the inhouse world with the launch of Intake, a legal front door that operates with its agents and which ...
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Decision Systems, eDiscovery, Litigaze + More
Decision systems, such as Jev, as well as the recently launched OpenAI Decisions API, herald a new, but also curiously déjà vu, way of classifying ...
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How Legal Teams Govern AI-Driven Contracting
By Megan Bradley, Senior Legal Counsel, Docusign. In-house legal teams share some common pressure points: more contracts, more stakeholders, more urgency, all without additional headcount. ...
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What aviation taught me about building AI for lawyers
Former RAAF pilot and OzRunways founder Rowan Willson is bringing the discipline behind trusted aviation data to Australian legal research.
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Think Your Discovery's Tough? Try Bypassing the Secret Service
Ballard Spahr attorneys—defending the British Broadcasting Corp. against President Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation claim—faced an “unusual, perhaps even novel” pickle.
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As AI Data Centers Expand, Legal Is Getting Pulled Into the Business Earlier
Garrett Rosen of Larson Maddox says regulatory uncertainty around data center development is not slowing legal hiring, it is increasing demand for lawyers who understand energy, permitting, policy, real estate and infrastructure.
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Former Davis Polk Attorney Launches Compliance Startup Leela, Announces $4.6M Seed Round
Leela aims to use the seed funding to hire for compliance and engineering roles and build integrations to provide flexibility to users with different technology stacks.
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A New Strategic Framework in the AI Era: Mapping Future Business Models of Law
Pathways: The Future of the Business of Law 2040, developed in partnership by Law.com, the TLTF Fund, Harvey and leaders across the industry, pressure-tested the legal industry business model and developed a map that allows organizations to have more agency over the future they want to see.
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Legal AI vs The Adversarial Incentive
Most major law firms use legal AI tools, yet there has been little significant change to how those firms operate. Why is that? The answer ...
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How AI is transforming early-career legal practice
AI tools are reshaping graduate training at Australia’s top law firms, transforming how young lawyers learn, develop practical skills, and prepare for the profession’s future.
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Future of law: Why new tech is yet to transform legal service delivery
While artificial intelligence has seen widespread adoption across the legal sector, studies have found that this uptake into genuine transformation continues to pose a major hurdle.
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Judges receive cautious green light for AI use
AI will be adopted to 'support but not replace judicial decision-making and be subject to strict safeguards and robust testing'.
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Legal Tech Integration Promises Meet Implementation Realities
Legal tech companies are expanding their integrations, but the ideal of an interconnected tech stack does not always play out smoothly.
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Legaltech Rundown: Ironclad Launches AI Contract Agent, Hotshot Introduces AI Hallucination Course, and More
An update on the legal tech market’s past week, from product launches to new partnerships.
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Harvey + Lexis, Google + Cooley, LI UK Tickets
We start this week’s Wrap with several chunky news stories, including a new capability jointly built by Harvey and LexisNexis – plus, the announcement that ...
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California bill explicitly regulates attorneys’ generative AI use
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Clients pressure firm and in-house lawyers to adopt legal AI: DISCO survey
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Judicial AI Summit: How Judges Use AI, Address Hallucinations
Judges talked over lagging AI adoption and education in the judiciary and the friction that may cause with incoming court staff.
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Cooley Teams Up With Google to Co-Develop Agentic AI Redaction Tool
The tool, built on Gemini Enterprise, is one of several AI projects Cooley has in the works, and it is one in a flurry of recent Big Law/Big Tech partnerships.
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Why ArentFox Schiff Shut Down Its Chatbot: 'Not a Hard Decision for Us'
AFSChat introduced the firm’s employees to LLM-based tools but had been surpassed in capability by third-party options, which eventually met the firm’s strict criteria.
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AT&T + OpenAI Partner for Legal AI Workflows
AT&T LegalEdge, the telecom giant’s new inhouse legal agency, is partnering with OpenAI to develop AI-enabled legal workflows. Jason Boehmig, GM Legal Industry at OpenAI, ...
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The Evolution of Conversational AI Within E-Discovery
Conversational AI is shifting the role of e-discovery professionals from data retrievers to strategic advisers who focus on investigation strategy, AI governance, and data intelligence. While AI accelerates access to information, professionals remain essential for framing the right questions, validating outputsand ensuring defensibility.
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Legal Front Door Coheso Launches Memory + AL Interview
Coheso, the legal front door pioneer, has launched Memory, which turns resolved legal requests into institutional knowledge. See AL Interview with CEO, Ned Gannon, below. ...
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OpenAI Decisions – Cheaper Bulk Review For Lawyers
OpenAI has launched Decisions, its own decision system which will compete with the likes of Jev (see here). It could potentially reduce AI costs for ...
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Express Registration Opens for Legal Innovators UK – Nov 4 + 5
Legal Innovators UK, on November 4 and 5 in London at the Minster Building, is right around the corner and Express Registration is now open ...
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Could your firm pass this AI verification test?
A quick check separates a defensible AI-assisted document from a risky one. The source it traces back to decides whether it holds up.
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Debevoise to Shift AI Platform Costs, as Big Law Seeks Pricing Model Beyond Billable Hour
The New York-based firm uses a subscription model to charge clients for access to its STAAR artificial intelligence advisory platform, but it is evaluating how best to price the service outside the traditional billable hour.
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The Judge's Rationale: Sirius XM Cleared in AI Hiring-Discrimination Lawsuit
A federal judge's decision dismissing a suit alleging AI hiring tools resulted in discrimination against Black applicants could be instructive, as interest in algorithms in the hiring process grows. Here, the court found that factors like a large number of rejected applications and variables such as zip code as a proxy for race were not sufficient to...
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Legal Services Startup Teddy AI Announces $60M Seed Round
The company, initially incubated by Tucker’s Farm Corp., has been vague about its operations, declining to disclose its investors, leadership or area of focus.
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The Invisible Threat: How AI Can Threaten Trade Secret Protections
AI—particularly LLMs, data aggregation platforms, and automated inference engines—has fundamentally altered the game. The consequences of this reality demand immediate attention from leadership, in-house counsel, and practitioners alike.
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Fox Rothschild Names New Tech C-Suite Leaders
Mark McCreary, Fox Rothschild's new chief data and artificial intelligence officer, has been with the firm for 28 years while newly named Chief Information Officer Barry Rozen joined four years ago.
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Spellbook’s Autonomous Contract Management on General Release
CLM isn’t dead. But it does have a lot of competition….as Spellbook’s Autonomous Contract Management (ACM) capability goes on general release after an initial limited ...
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Pilot5 Launches Adversarial AI for Lawyers
Although a number of legal tech companies use LLM consensus and multiple model strategies already, Pilot5 and its new adversarial Legal AI product specifically taps ...
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Ivo Launches Open-Source DeepSeek Contract AI Model
Ivo has launched a super-affordable ‘open-source model for contract work’. Branded as Sage, it was built in partnership with River AI by post-training DeepSeek V4 ...
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LawVu Launches Lens – Total Contract AI Capability
Inhouse-focused LawVu has launched Lens, an AI contract analysis tool that gives lawyers visibility across a company’s ‘entire contract portfolio, surfacing risks and obligations before ...
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Legora Launches 250+ Skills For Legal Agents
Legora has launched Skills, a way to get much more out of the agents that work within their platform. They’ve also added a library of ...
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From legal practice to legal tech: Building for, and serving, the profession’s needs
A career in legal technology is – for those who have transitioned from traditional practice – a fulfilment of myriad vocational ambitions. And, the opportunities for tech roles in law are only likely to grow.
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When AI makes it easier to litigate, who pays the price?
AI is lowering the barriers to litigation – including some that once kept weak claims out, and others that kept legitimate claimants from getting in. As courts and tribunals grapple with the consequences, the challenge is preserving access to justice without rebuilding the barriers AI has begun to dismantle.
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Garbage In, Garbage Out: Why Your AI Is Only as Good as the Data You Feed It
Last month I was pulling together a response to a tender - the kind of document where the organisation’s reputation rides on getting the detail right. I asked my new bestie, Claude, to draft the technical capability section using our SharePoint sites and our iManage workspaces as sources. Within minutes, it had produced something plausible, confident,...
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Vorys Deploys AI Personas for Lawyers, Says Clients Are Next
The personas, developed in partnership with Stanford's LIFT Lab, are designed to replicate specific attorneys' insights in an effort to provide legal staff with additional perspectives.
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Legora Launches Skills, Pre-Built and Custom Instructions for Its AI Agent
The new feature comes as an increasing number of tech developers, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are releasing skill-based tools and is designed to help customers leverage institutional knowledge.
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Frontline Managed Services Acquires KL Software Technologies
The addition of legal tech developer KL Software will support the engineering and expertise of Frontline Managed Services' newly launched Frontline Intelligent Applications.
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Interim counsel ‘no longer primarily a backfill solution’
The first half of 2026 has seen a shift in how law departments are engaging contractors, with the age of AI playing a role in accelerating trends.
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