Gavel, the Los Angeles-based legal AI company, today announced the launch of Gavel Exec for Web, a browser-based expansion of its AI contract review and drafting product that until now has lived primarily as an add-in inside Microsoft Word. “With Gavel Exec for Web, lawyers can chat with an AI purpose-built for legal work, benchmark…

Questel, an intellectual property software and services company headquartered in Paris, has released QaECTER, a new AI model designed specifically for semantic patent retrieval. The company says the model outperforms competing systems, including those that are significantly larger, across every query type, technology domain and jurisdiction tested. QaECTER is the product of Questel’s in-house AI…

Legal AI has made lawyers faster. Faster contract review. Smarter redlines. Drafting assistance that saves real time. For the most part, legal AI products have been built around lawyers: how they work and how to make that work better. This isn’t surprising when you consider whose budget pays for legal AI. But the first friction…

Clio has made Clio Work — the AI workspace for legal research, analysis and strategy it launched last October — available as a standalone product for  solo, small and mid-sized law firms, removing the requirement that customers also subscribe to its flagship practice management platform, Clio Manage. The Vancouver-based company, which describes itself as the…

LexisNexis and Luminance today announced a partnership that will let mutual in-house legal customers access LexisNexis’s Protégé AI assistant from inside Luminance’s contract negotiation platform, with a pathway to move into Lexis+ with Protégé for more involved legal work. Under the arrangement, users working in Luminance’s natural-language assistant, Lumi, can pose legal questions and receive…

It started with Harvey, the legal AI company that signed Gabriel Macht – the actor who played Harvey Specter on Suits – as a brand ambassador. Then Legora one-upped everyone by signing the actor Jude Law, building a whole campaign around the tagline, “Law just got more attractive,” and shooting the thing with an Oscar-winning…

While much of the AI development in legal tech focuses on the practice of law — research, drafting, document review and the like — Centerbase, the practice management platform for midsized law firms, is releasing a new AI feature that focuses on the business of law. Today, the company is announcing the limited release of…