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Clio detailed its major moves over the past year, highlighting its $1 billion acquisition of vLex and the launch of its Intelligent Legal Work Platform. The updates integrate vLex's legal AI research directly into Clio Work, alongside the launch of a new enterprise division and the evolution of Clio Duo into Manage AI.

Solve Intelligence, an AI platform designed to assist legal professionals throughout the patent lifecycle, has raised $60 million in backing from top investors including Thomson Reuters, Microsoft, Y Combinator, and 20VC. The company's software is currently used by over 700 IP firms and in-house legal teams, including DLA Piper, Perkins Coie, Siemens, and Amgen.

A federal judge has allowed Reddit's data-scraping lawsuit against AI companies Perplexity AI and SerpApi to proceed. The ruling marks another key judicial test on the limits of web scraping and copyright for training AI models.

Okta's legal operations department has grown to a 15-person team and established a dedicated AI lead role to oversee AI strategy and tool development. Former VP of Legal Kim Woodward detailed the department's playbook, which includes quarterly team-wide AI training days and internal prompt/agent development.

Harvey collaborated with Applied Compute to build a custom domain-specific AI model for its Review Table document analysis tool. The specialized model improved answer and citation quality while cutting average cost per cell by 54.8% compared to general frontier baselines.

AI compliance and legal startup Norm AI has raised a $120 million Series C round at a reported $1.2 billion valuation, bringing its total funding above $260 million. The company, which offers AI-driven regulatory compliance and supports AI-native law firm Norm Law, reported that clients representing over $30 trillion in assets under management use its platform.

Former developer Yousef Ahmad has launched IntakeIQ, an AI platform designed to automate law firm client intakes and case scoring. Built on AWS Bedrock to ensure HIPAA compliance, the system analyzes inquiries from emails or web forms, generates case dossiers with estimated damages ranges, and cites prospective client statements.

Legal AI startup Harvey has secured $200 million in new funding, pushing the company's valuation to $11 billion. The investment highlights strong investor confidence in specialized legal AI platforms.

New York-based legal tech startup Chamelio secured $10 million in seed funding, with a $5.7 million lead investment from Work-Bench alongside participation from Emerge. The platform uses AI to turn unstructured contracts and negotiation history into an intelligence layer for in-house legal workflows.

Relativity announced Relativity claiR, a new conversational AI interface designed to help attorneys interact directly with their data. Law firms including A&O Shearman, Foley & Lardner, and K&L Gates are currently using the tool ahead of its planned general availability next year.

AI patent platform Lightbringer has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by 6 Degrees Capital and Newion, bringing its total funding to $15 million. Founded by a former patent attorney, the company uses AI combined with attorney reviews to accelerate patent applications and is pivoting away from law firms to target innovators directly.

DISCO has announced the general availability of Advanced Research, an agentic AI feature that uses multi-step reasoning to automate fact investigation. The tool performs iterative searches, drafts deposition outlines and case memos, and analyzes large datasets directly within the platform.

New Louisiana state laws taking effect Aug. 1 establish criminal penalties for nonconsensual AI deepfakes and mandate disclosures for AI-altered political ads. The statutes build on state evidentiary rules requiring pre-trial disclosure and judicial authenticity hearings before AI-generated evidence can be introduced in civil or criminal proceedings.

A Brazilian court sanctioned two attorneys 10% of their client's $165,000 claim for inserting hidden white-font instructions into a pleading to manipulate the court's AI screening tool. The incident represents one of the first known instances of prompt injection targeting judicial document-analysis systems.

U.S. District Court Judge Noël Wise approved a court order moving up the final approval date for Apple's $250 million false-advertising settlement from September 2027 to February 2027. The class-action lawsuit, led by Clarkson Law Firm, alleged Apple deceptively advertised unreleased Siri AI features to induce iPhone sales.

Legal tech company BigHand has acquired Ayora to enhance its AI capabilities, specifically in legal pricing, demonstrating a strategic move to integrate advanced AI into its offerings for law firms.

DeepJudge introduced an open Agent Handoff Protocol enabling users to transfer context between different AI systems without losing progress. Legal AI companies Harvey and Thomson Reuters are among the first to adopt the protocol, aiming to improve interoperability for legal professionals using multiple AI tools.

In a new benchmark using "CoCoBench," Thomson Reuters' CoCounsel Legal AI completed complex legal tasks, each estimated to take a lawyer six hours, in under eight minutes. Experienced attorneys rated CoCounsel Legal's responses as stronger than expert-written answers on nearly 40% of tasks, suggesting AI can produce professionally usable work product.

The Florida Bar's Business Law Section has established an AI Task Force to help business lawyers understand AI's legal, business, and societal implications. The task force has also launched "The AI Advantage," a biweekly newsletter, to keep members informed on developments.

A new guide from Paragon Legal, 'AI for Legal: An Adoption Framework and Technology Guide for In-House Legal Teams,' reveals that while 67% of in-house legal teams use general productivity AI tools, 56% of organizations have no formal AI governance framework. The guide aims to help legal departments move from AI experimentation to intentional adoption with clear guardrails.