AI × Law

A lawyer used an external AI agent to submit 38,477 court documents in Chile across just two days, prompting civil judges to request an urgent Supreme Court ban on AI-driven court filings. The incident highlights rising judicial alarm over procedural abuse and automated systems overloading court infrastructure.

Major firms including Osler, Gowling WLG, McCarthy Tétrault, and Fasken are actively recruiting lawyers to build internal AI workflows and automation tools. This trend creates new senior non-partner career tracks for experienced lawyers within Big Law.

AI legal assistant platform Eve raised $103M in Series B funding, pushing its total valuation to $1B. The startup, which focuses on optimizing law firm casework from intake to resolution, reached an estimated $24.2M in annual recurring revenue.

GC AI has secured $60 million in Series B funding to expand its AI platform designed for in-house legal teams. The company has also partnered with legal service provider Paragon Legal to help deploy AI technology to corporate legal departments.

Language translation platform DeepL has partnered with legal AI startup Harvey to handle multilingual processing for legal tasks. DeepL will manage over a third of the translation workload as part of the integration.

Thomson Reuters has announced the general availability of the next generation of CoCounsel Legal, leveraging Anthropic's Claude Agent SDK to handle multi-step legal workflows. Key features include the new Westlaw Brief Builder, Word-integrated drafting, and upcoming integrations with Anthropic, AWS, and e-discovery platform Reveal.

Major legal AI vendors including Harvey and Thomson Reuters are shifting away from sole reliance on OpenAI and Anthropic to deploy custom models built on open-source technology. The strategic move allows vendors to better control computing costs and customize performance, though it transfers model maintenance and security responsibilities directly to the legal tech providers.

The Brazilian judicial system has consolidated 373 million court cases into a centralized data lake to train and feed artificial intelligence systems. The massive dataset aims to improve AI accuracy, broaden data diversity, and minimize model hallucinations across the country's courts.

Clio has introduced Clio Grow AI, a new feature designed to automate client intake for law firms. The tool manages after-hours responses, lead qualification, conflict checks, appointment booking, and follow-up communications to help firms capture prospective clients.

Legal AI platform Harvey is maintaining its traditional software-style seat pricing model despite ongoing debate in the legal tech sector over usage-based billing.

Am Law 100 firm Davis Wright Tremaine is expanding its deployment of Harvey's legal AI platform to all of its more than 600 lawyers. The firmwide rollout follows extensive collaboration to integrate the platform into drafting, research, document review, and analysis workflows.

Legal tech vendor Onit has announced updates across its product suite, introducing new AI capabilities to automate legal operations. Key updates include Spend Agent Auto Adjustments to calculate monetary recommendations for invoice violations, expanded dataset support for the 'Ask Unity' assistant, and AI extraction engine improvements for converting LEDES invoices.

Nutter McClennen & Fish's co-managing partner Michael Scott revealed the firm is utilizing AI to analyze internal data and develop a formula for flat fees. The firm has assembled a tactical task force led by two partners to accelerate AI adoption across its practices.

Founded by former Eigen AI CEO Lewis Liu, Twin1 launched out of stealth with $20 million in funding to create digital AI twins of individual professionals. The platform aims to capture and share context, judgment, and expertise across organizations, with early deployments already underway at firms including Linklaters, Orrick, and Dechert.

A new study from MIT's CSAIL reveals that as generative AI models train on larger datasets, tracing an output back to specific training data becomes nearly impossible. This phenomenon, termed 'attribution decay,' could significantly impact evidence and arguments in ongoing copyright infringement lawsuits against AI developers.

A computing academic successfully represented himself in a dispute before Australia's Fair Work Commission using a team of paid AI agents, including ChatGPT Pro. The AI tools helped assemble the case, check references, and anticipate counterarguments in what was hailed as a rare win for technology-assisted access to justice.

Harvey has unveiled Harvey II, introducing a new Memory capability that retains individual lawyers' drafting styles, citation preferences, and workflows across Word and Outlook. The update also adds project-centric Spaces to unify documents, tasks, and history for law firms and in-house teams.

Harvey II has added the ability to remember attorney preferences across sessions, while Litera has launched Lito to draft and negotiate contracts directly within Microsoft Word. The updates mark a shift in legal tech tools from passive assistants to more autonomous agents.

Candle AI has introduced Candle Work, an AI agent system that connects law firm inboxes to case management software and internal data. The system automatically gathers documents, drafts responses, and prepares system updates triggered by incoming emails for lawyer review.

Munich-based Silvernova has closed a funding round backed by Altitude VC, legal industry experts, and partners from established law firms. The startup's platform, currently used by more than 150 law firms, analyzes complete case files, structures complex facts, and drafts source-backed documents directly in Microsoft Word.