Microsoft’s legal department is becoming a Harvey customer. The legal AI company Harvey announced today that Microsoft’s Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs (CELA) organization — the roughly 2,000-person unit that houses the company’s lawyers and compliance professionals — will use the Harvey platform to support its legal and compliance operations. As part of the same
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Entegrata Hires Simpson Thacher AI Leader Andrew Baker To Head New AI Enablement Product Line
The legal data company Entegrata, whose data lakehouse platform helps law firms consolidate siloed data into a single source of truth, has hired Andrew Baker, who for more than five years led applied AI and data science at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, as its first chief AI and data strategy officer, where he will lead
Built By Lawyers, For Lawyers: DingDuff Is A Free Claude Connector That Its Founders Say Rivals The Legal Research Giants
Two practicing lawyers in Austin, Texas, have built a free connector that plugs Claude directly into millions of court opinions, statutes, regulations and court rules, along with federal court filings via PACER — and they say that, in their own testing, it matches and sometimes beats the Westlaw AI accounts their firms pay for. The
What’s In A Wrapper? Comparing A Hershey Bar To LegalTech AI
Anyone can make sweets, but not everyone can make a Hershey bar. The debate over legaltech startups offering nothing more than a “thin wrapper” around an LLM begs a deeper analysis of the value of a wrapper, particularly as open-source alternatives take root. Let’s start with a Hershey bar. You pay for the chocolate, right?
Intapp Makes Celeste Generally Available, Calling It An ‘AI Coworker’ To Run the Business Side of Law Firms
Intapp, the publicly traded company whose software manages intake, conflicts, and deal workflows for law firms and other professional services firms, yesterday announced the general availability of Celeste, an agentic AI product it describes as an “expert AI coworker” designed to run the business operations of a firm — from deal screening and conflicts clearance
UChicago Law Bans Laptops from 1L Classrooms As Part of Sweeping New AI Strategy for Legal Education
The University of Chicago Law School yesterday released a comprehensive AI Strategy Statement that will reshape how it teaches first-year students, how it assesses upper-level writing, and how it integrates AI tools across its curriculum — including a pilot program that will prohibit laptops, tablets and phones in all core 1L classes starting this fall.
Two Years After Launching Its AI Assistant Archie, Smokeball Rolls Out the ‘Next Generation’ Built on Agentic AI, and Embedded in Word and Outlook
Two years ago, the law practice management company Smokeball gave me an exclusive preview of its plans for an AI ecosystem spanning the full client lifecycle, anchored by an AI matter assistant called Archie, which it formally launched in July 2024. Now the company has released the next generation of Archie AI, a major overhaul
Centari Launches External Views, Enabling Firms to Share Deal Intelligence Dashboards Directly with Clients
Centari, an AI platform for managing complex transactions, today launched External Views, a capability that allows law firms to create white-labeled dashboards and share them directly with clients. The feature builds on Centari’s Views capability, introduced earlier this year, which enables firms to analyze transaction trends, benchmark market positions, and visualize deal data across their
Norm Ai Hits Unicorn Status with $120M Series C at $1.2 Billion Valuation
Norm Ai, the New York-based legal and compliance AI company, today announced a $120 million Series C round at a $1.2 billion valuation, crossing the unicorn threshold and joining a growing but still select club of legal AI companies valued at $1 billion or more. Khosla Ventures led the round, in its first investment in
Fastcase And Alexi Head To Court This Week In High-Stakes Fight Over Legal AI, Caselaw Data And Clio’s $1B vLex Deal
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., will hear arguments this week in a case that could help define the rules of the road for legal AI companies that rely on licensed caselaw data. The case, Fastcase Inc. v. Alexi Technologies Inc., pending before Judge Richard J. Leon in the U.S. District Court for the District