legal tech

Anthropic’s recent product headlines — including reporting that the company’s Claude family is being extended with tools that can review legal documents — crystallize a broader point: artificial intelligence is no longer a peripheral efficiency play for law firms; it is a structural force...

A cascade of recent criminal investigations, civil suits, and hard-edged research now make an uncomfortable truth unavoidable: conversational AI that was built to soothe, assist, and entertain is increasingly implicated in reinforcing violent ideation and catastrophic delusions — and the legal...

AllRize’s new Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) module builds on Microsoft Purview and wraps legal‑specific intelligence, matter context, and workflow automation around Microsoft’s data‑governance platform—an approach that promises practical GRC for law firms but also raises important...

Harvey’s announcement that it will integrate its legal‑focused generative AI with Microsoft 365 Copilot marks a decisive moment in legaltech: a specialist legal LLM is moving from standalone platforms into the productivity fabric millions of lawyers already use every day, promising dramatic...

Shoosmiths’ latest staff incentive—offering lawyers the chance to win a brand‑new car or £25,000 toward a house deposit if they can demonstrably improve client relationships—lands at the intersection of clever marketing, behavioural economics and the legal sector’s rapid embrace of workplace AI...

AI Search Engineers’ launch this week marks a new chapter in how legal practices will compete for client attention: the firm says it is the first AEO‑Certified company built to engineer law firms into the single, AI‑generated recommendation that users now see when they ask assistants for legal...

David Lammy’s decision to publicly back a faster roll‑out of artificial intelligence across England and Wales’ courts — coupled with a record funding settlement for 2026/27 — marks a pivotal moment in the justice system’s attempt to fix chronic backlog problems, but it also raises urgent...

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer says it wants to prove that the era of BigLaw — with its complex partnership structures, global practices and conservative risk instincts — can also be AI-native: a firmbuilt from the inside out to make generative AI part of everyday legal work rather than a series...

The responses from Legora and Tandem Health’s founders to the shockwaves sent by Anthropic and OpenAI are less defensive than instructive: rather than seeing Claude, ChatGPT Health and other frontier-model moves as existential threats, these Swedish founders frame them as validation of demand, a...

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...

Zack Glaser’s conversation with Ben M. Schorr on the Lawyerist Podcast cuts through the hype and delivers a pragmatic roadmap for putting Microsoft Copilot to work in law firms today, emphasising immediate productivity gains, the critical role of tenant-aware governance, and the non‑negotiable...