The AI legal research startup Descrybe today launched a “legal reasoning” product, DescrybeLM, that it says outperforms leading general-purpose AI models on a standardized legal reasoning benchmark — and it is publishing the methodology and scoring data to invite scrutiny. The company also launched an all-new website that features the new product while also retaining
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AI Adoption Among Legal Professionals Has More Than Doubled in a Year, New 8am Report Finds, But Firms Lag Far Behind Individual Practitioners
Nearly seven in 10 legal professionals now use generative AI tools for work — a figure that more than doubled in a single year — but the majority of law firms still lack formal AI policies or training programs, according to the 2026 Legal Industry Report released by 8am, the legal technology company behind LawPay,
American Arbitration Association Launches Resolution Simulator, Expanding Its AI Arbitrator Tool
The American Arbitration Association is launching a new AI-powered tool called the Resolution Simulator, which builds on the organization’s previously launched AI Arbitrator to provide simulated, nonbinding dispute outcomes before formal arbitration proceedings begin. The Resolution Simulator is designed for single-party use in documents-only commercial and construction disputes. Users submit their materials and receive an
Three Years After Launching As First AI Legal Assistant, CoCounsel Reaches 1 Million Users — and Thomson Reuters Teases What’s Ahead
CoCounsel, which launched almost exactly three years ago, on March 1, 2023, as the first AI legal assistant built on GPT-4, today marked a notable milestone, reaching 1 million customers across 107 countries and territories. Developed by legal research startup Casetext, Thomson Reuters acquired CoCounsel (and Casetext) just four months after its release, for a
LexisNexis Launches Lexis+ with Protégé, Replacing Lexis+ AI with an End-to-End Workflow Platform
You can bid adieu to Lexis+ AI. LexisNexis is today announcing the general availability in the United States of Lexis+ with Protégé, an integrated flagship platform that fully replaces Lexis+ AI — which the company now describes as its “first-generation AI experience” — and brings a significantly expanded set of AI workflow capabilities to legal
Sirion Completes Majority Investment from Haveli, Aiming to Accelerate AI Push in CLM Market
Sirion, an AI-native contract lifecycle management platform, has completed a majority investment from Austin-based private equity firm Haveli Investments, the companies announced today. With Haveli’s partnership, Sirion said, it will aim to accelerate product innovation, expand its global go-to-market presence, and enable organizations to move from static contract repositories to intelligent, workflow-driven contracting. “Sirion is
Legalgain shares Findings in Whitepaper on Structural Requirements for AI Legal Research
Legalgain has released Integrity Meets Intelligence: The Training Data and Domain Architecture Standards for Agentic Legal Research, a whitepaper examining the data and architectural requirements necessary for AI systems to perform reliable legal research. The analysis outlines why many current legal AI tools fall short on accuracy and defensibility, and identifies the structural conditions required
DISCO Launches Scaled Agentic AI Tool for Large Discovery and Fact Investigation Matters
Calling it “the industry’s first scaled agentic AI tool for fact investigation and e-discovery,” DISCO today announced an agentic AI enhancement to its Cecilia Q&A tool, which the company says is designed to handle large-scale e-discovery matters with millions of documents and terabytes of data. The Austin-based legal technology company’s new tool adds what it
Today’s Legaltech Week: The Claude-pocalypse, AI Agents Gone Wild, and Much More – All Live at 3 ET
As I wrote earlier this week, it was the shot heard ’round the world, as AI company Anthropic, developer of Claude, launched a legal app and seemingly caused legal tech stocks to plummet. Meanwhile, AI agents now have their own social network, Moltbook, while another new site is enabling them to rent humans to do
Masters AI Taps Cat Casey to Anchor Its New Global Legal AI Conference Series and Learning Ecosystem
The Masters Conference, which just two months ago announced new leadership and plans to launch a new division, Masters AI Legal, today announced that it has partnered with Cat Casey, founder of The TechnoCat, a consulting and speaking practice focused on legal AI, and former chief growth officer at Reveal. Casey will anchor Masters AI