legal ai

The legal profession has built its ladder on repetition: junior lawyers learn by doing, hardened mid-level associates become managers of people and process, and partners emerge with judgement sharpened by thousands of small, often thankless tasks. That ladder is now cracking under the weight of...

Burges Salmon’s Digital Enablement Programme has entered a decisive new phase: the firm has embedded Microsoft 365 Copilot as a firm‑wide foundation and — following a structured trial — selected the legal‑focused generative AI platform Harvey for matter‑specific workflows. The announcement...

Artificial‑intelligence tools that once lived only in research labs and sci‑fi scripts are now quietly reshaping how lawyers do the work of law — from first drafts and contract triage to courtroom filings — and the consequences are already material for firms, judges and everyday Windows users...

Relativity’s investment in generative AI for legal data intelligence is a study in disciplined product engineering: the company built Relativity aiR on a Microsoft Azure foundation to accelerate e‑discovery and investigations while prioritizing defensibility, auditability, and enterprise trust...

Slaughter and May has moved decisively into the next phase of its legal‑tech programme by hiring Anthony Vigneron — currently Clifford Chance’s director of legal technology solutions — as the firm’s new head of innovation, a role that will see him lead AI and legal‑tech strategy from February...

CMS has rolled out Harvey AI to more than 7,000 lawyers across its global network, in a move that crystallizes how generative AI has shifted from pilot projects to firmwide infrastructure in Big Law — and raises urgent questions about measurement, governance, and professional risk as...

CMS’s decision to expand Harvey across its global footprint — rolling access out to more than 7,000 lawyers and staff in 50+ countries — marks a pivotal moment in law firm adoption of generative AI and intensifies the debate over how large firms scale AI-driven workflows while managing risk...

Barristers in England and Wales have been issued refreshed guidance on the use of ChatGPT and other large language model (LLM) tools after a series of High Court rulings exposed lawyers putting non‑existent authorities before the court, and regulators and judges signalled that professional...

A new public database that catalogs instances of AI “hallucinations” in court filings has quickly become a central reference point for judges, ethics committees, and tech teams wrestling with how to use large language models (LLMs) safely in legal workflows — and early entries show that...

Harvey’s legal AI platform is being embedded into mainstream legal education in the United Kingdom, with Oxford University Faculty of Law, The University of Law, The Dickson Poon School of Law at King’s College London and BPP University Law School joining Harvey’s law‑school programme — a move...

Buchalter escaped formal court sanctions after a federal judge in Oregon concluded the firm’s remedial steps were sufficient when one of its associates filed a brief that included two AI‑generated — or “hallucinated” — case citations, one of which the judge called “totally fake” and the other...

Abstaining from AI is becoming an impractical option for most legal practices, and the question has shifted from whether to use artificial intelligence to how to use it safely, ethically, and competitively in a regulated profession. The Wisconsin Lawyer column “Abstaining from AI: Is Resistance...

The upcoming IPWatchdog webinar on November 20, 2025, frames a question that has quietly become central to every patent shop and in‑house IP team: when should you reach for a general‑purpose AI like ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, and when does the task demand an IP‑specific AI trained and...

Kiara Morris and Jett Potter — two early‑career lawyers at MinterEllison — are emblematic of a broader shift in law firms: juniors are using Microsoft Copilot and custom AI agents not just to speed up routine work, but to rehearse courtroom questions, shape partner‑level briefings, and earn...

Law Tech AI’s new cohort launches promise a practical, safety-first path for California solos and small firms to adopt legal AI — but the details matter: two tiered programs start October 1, 2025, with a curriculum that ranges from hands‑on introductions to advanced automation and enterprise...

Litera’s selection to Microsoft’s 2025–2026 AI Business Solutions Inner Circle underscores a decisive moment in legal technology: a major legal‑tech vendor has won a place among Microsoft’s top AI partners, reinforcing a strategy that embeds AI where lawyers already work — inside Microsoft 365 —...

Virginia Briggs, chief executive of Australia’s MinterEllison, says she uses Microsoft 365 Copilot “for every task, every day,” and the firm’s experience — from boardroom demos to bespoke legal drafting tools — offers an early, high‑profile case study of what enterprise generative AI looks like...

Law firms are racing to adopt artificial intelligence tools—but the move from pilot projects and individual experimentation to firm‑wide, governed production deployments remains the exception rather than the rule, driven less by model capability than by the legal profession’s special duties...

Law firms are experimenting with artificial intelligence at a rapid clip, but according to recent reporting and industry surveys, widespread, fully governed production deployments remain the exception rather than the rule—a reality shaped less by technical immaturity than by ethical, regulatory...

Thai in‑house counsel and litigation teams face a 2025 inflection point: generative AI has moved from experimental “time‑saver” to a regulated, business‑critical toolset that must be evaluated for PDPA compliance, explainability, and defensibility before it is used on client matters. The Nucamp...