Freshfields Celebrates Worldwide Google AI Tools Roll Out
Freshfields has rolled out Google’s Gemini‑based AI tools to roughly 5,000 of its professionals, marking the one‑year anniversary of its strategic partnership with Google Cloud. The firm now embeds Gemini across bespoke solutions such as Dynamic Due Diligence, a case‑management platform, a multi‑jurisdictional insights engine, its own general AI platform, and Google NotebookLM Enterprise with custom‑managed encryption keys. About 2,100 staff regularly use NotebookLM Enterprise to synthesize complex material, while 2,800 employees leverage Google Workspace enhanced by Gemini for transcription and document summarisation. Freshfields’ leadership says AI has moved from experiment to core infrastructure.
Juro Launches Operator Contract Chat
Juro has introduced Operator, a conversational AI that lets users query their contract repository using natural language and receive answers with citation links. The tool can surface data such as contracts exceeding $100k that are set to auto‑renew or specific...
Microsoft Copilot Specifically Targets Lawyers With New Capabilities
Microsoft announced new Copilot features built into Word that target lawyers, finance and compliance professionals. The update adds word‑level Track Changes, contextual comments and auto‑generated tables of contents, all native to Word and auditable. The capabilities launch today through the...
Product Walk Through: August – Genius Mode
August unveiled Genius Mode, an AI‑driven feature that calculates flat fees from billable‑hour data, giving law firms confidence to price and deliver fixed‑fee engagements. The capability ingests invoices, accounting records, and prior client bills, then produces branded presentations and detailed...
Harvey’s Gabe Pereyra on Legal Agents + World Models
Harvey co‑founder Gabe Pereyra explains how autonomous AI agents, exemplified by the Spectre platform, are being adapted for law firms. He describes the “world model,” a unified data infrastructure that gives agents firm‑wide context while preserving ethical walls. The interview explores...
Context Is Not A Feature, It Is The System
Alex Zilberman argues that AI in legal cannot rely on isolated prompts; true value comes from embedding multi‑layered context—document, transaction, institutional, workflow, and access—into the system. He notes that most tools only capture fragments, leading to clever but unreliable outputs....
Orbital Launches Its Own Real Estate Law Firm
Orbital, the legal‑tech and prop‑tech platform, is launching Farringdon, a UK‑based residential conveyancing law firm. The six‑person team, including three AI‑focused conveyancing engineers, will start taking instructions in May. Orbital plans to feed every AI‑driven workflow insight from Farringdon back...
NewMod Norm Law Hires Ex-Ropes & Gray Partner Bill Mone
NewMod Norm Law, the legal arm of Norm AI, appointed Bill Mone, a former Ropes & Gray partner, as Head of Private Equity. The firm now counts more than 40 lawyers and legal engineers, all focused on AI‑native workflows for...
UK Firm Rolls Out August Across Multiple Business Functions
Legal AI platform August has been adopted by UK law firm Harrison Drury for a broad range of business functions, not just legal work. The firm will use the technology for corporate transactions, commercial property, HR, marketing, business development, and financial...
Will Claude Managed Agents Impact Legal Tech?
Anthropic introduced Claude Managed Agents, a fully managed runtime that lets enterprises build and deploy autonomous AI agents within the Claude ecosystem. The platform bundles state management, tool integration, security and lifecycle orchestration, removing the need for separate infrastructure. By...
Axiom’s Lawyers On Demand + Clients Get Harvey Access
Axiom, the leading alternative legal service provider with a bench of about 14,000 on‑demand lawyers, has incorporated the Harvey AI platform into its "AI Tech + Talent" portfolio. The move equips its lawyers and the 1,500 corporate legal departments it...
Webinar: Eudia + ServiceNow: The 10x Future of Inhouse Legal Teams
Artificial Lawyer is hosting a free webinar on April 22 at noon EST featuring Eudia’s CEO Omar Haroun and ServiceNow representative Andrew Brereton. The session, titled “Self‑Service Legal: Eudia, ServiceNow, and the 10x Future of In‑House Legal Teams,” will explore how...
Harvey Drives Legal Agent Learning Via ‘Harness Engineering’
Harvey conducted a small‑scale experiment using “harness engineering” combined with autoresearch to improve its legal AI agents. Across 12 benchmark tasks, the average success score jumped from 40.8% to 87.7%, with seven tasks surpassing 90% and one achieving 100% completion....
I Built An Agentic ‘Law Firm’, Now What?
Antti Innanen launched Lavern, an AI‑driven "law firm" that runs 66 specialist agents on a single Mac Mini. The system mimics a traditional firm’s intake, decomposition, routing, debate, escalation and synthesis workflow, but all processing stays local, preserving client privacy....
Why Native Legal AI Is Required for India
Deepak Kapoor argues that India’s intricate, multi‑layered legal system requires AI built specifically for its statutes, courts, and regulatory bodies. Generic, globally trained models often hallucinate citations, miss jurisdictional nuances, and fail to handle multilingual judgments. Native Legal AI, exemplified...
