Corporate AI investment

Salesforce is building an AI-native, trust-first, agentic legal function to transform how it operates, governs technology, and collaborates with outside counsel. As part of this effort, it created the LCAi Outside Counsel Support Agent to assist law firms with legal e-billing processes and administrative workflows.

LEAP invests over $20 million per year in research and development to enhance its legal practice management platform and AI capabilities for law firms.

NetDocuments announced the addition of AI-powered Tabular Review and the extension of Legal Authorities to its Legal Context Graph within its document management system. The new capabilities allow legal professionals to transform legal document collections into structured tables for due diligence, contract audits, and regulatory reviews.

BriefCatch incorporated generative AI into its legal editing software, adding a citation checker and a 'reality check' tool. The new feature verifies whether legal briefs accurately quote and rely on legal authorities.

CS Disco launched three AI-related litigation tools: its Agentic AI platform, a unified litigation solution, and Tag Tuner. These rollouts aim to expand litigation workflows and streamline document review.

Everlaw expanded partnerships to increase access to its evidence and analytical tools across third-party AI platforms, including launching a Microsoft 365 Copilot connector. This enables lawyers to search and analyze matter evidence directly from external AI systems.

Relativity announced an integration with Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise for Legal using model context protocol. This enables its AI applications to connect with external legal data, tools, and systems.

Eve built and brought to general availability two new capabilities, Analyst and Atlas, for its legal AI platform.

Clarra developed and launched a legal case management Model Context Protocol (MCP) server connecting its platform directly to Claude.

Rachel See coded the MVP and assembled a team to build and launch Bells Up AI, a legal-tech product offering lawyers multi-model AI access.

Legal technology provider Precisely built and launched Lexnus, a new CLM platform that uses AI to analyze existing contracts/templates and create legal playbooks based on company legal policies.

Intapp partnered with Legora to connect Legora with Intapp Walls and Intapp Time for automated AI time capture.

Mallesons is working on transforming its legal practice by adopting and customizing Harvey, incorporating firm and individual memory.

Harvey is developing Harvey II, focusing on matter-centric and personalized AI capabilities using firm memory and preferences.

iManage built the iManage Context Fabric platform to provide a governed intelligence layer for legal document management and AI readiness.

SLW Intellectual Property Law Firm launched SLW Labs, an internal innovation platform and hub-and-spoke program to build proprietary AI-powered tools and domain-specific workflows for patent prosecution, training, and invention intake.

ContractPodAi rebranded to Leah, marking a strategic milestone and evolution in its AI and contract lifecycle management offerings.

Slaughter and May announced the fourth cohort of its Collaborate legal tech incubator program, bringing in six legal tech startups with an emphasis on generative AI. Participating startups test their innovations with the firm's lawyers and business service personnel and can pitch for equity investment.

Debevoise & Plimpton is developing a proprietary AI software product designed to help clients navigate artificial intelligence risks. As part of this effort, the firm is hiring two lawyers from Davis Polk & Wardwell to assist with the product launch.

Vodafone announced it is entering the legal tech space to co-develop an AI platform specifically for legal operations.