Ironclad Founder Jason Boehmig Joins OpenAI For Legal Vertical Launch
OpenAI has hired Jason Boehmig, the founder of contract‑management platform Ironclad, to head product development for a new legal‑focused vertical. Boehmig, who grew Ironclad from a two‑person startup to a 700‑employee company managing billions of contracts and generating hundreds of millions in recurring revenue, will lead the launch of what insiders call “Codex for Legal.” The move signals OpenAI’s intent to compete directly with Anthropic and Microsoft by offering specialized AI tools for lawyers and in‑house legal teams. The legal‑tech ecosystem now faces three major Big‑Tech contenders vying for dominance in contract review and workflow automation.
Claude For Legal Has Over 90 AI Agents
Anthropic’s Claude for Legal now offers more than 90 named AI agents that automate specific legal workflows, from contract review to DSAR response. The agents are accessible via a GitHub catalog and can be customized with natural‑language prompts, reducing the...
Kirkland Hints It Could Fine-Tune LLMs For Own Legal AI Model
Kirkland & Ellis is channeling roughly $500 million into a DIY legal‑AI effort that could involve fine‑tuning open‑source large language models on its own GPU infrastructure. The firm has posted multiple AI Infrastructure Director roles that explicitly require on‑premise GPU expertise,...
Legal Innovators Europe Webinar – Implementing Legal AI
Cosmonauts and Artificial Lawyer are hosting a Legal Innovators Europe webinar on June 3 at noon CET, aimed at law firms, in‑house legal teams, and legal‑ops professionals across France and Europe. The session, chaired by Artificial Lawyer founder Richard Tromans and...
Harvey Announces Contract Intelligence for Inhouse
Harvey unveiled Contract Intelligence, an AI‑powered platform built for in‑house legal teams, with a waitlist for early access and a planned general release in Q3 2026. The solution streamlines contract intake, triage, and review, surfaces fallback positions and clause language...
Justima Spins Out of Osborne Clarke
Osborne Clarke has spun out Justima, a Germany‑based AI‑driven regulatory monitoring platform, marking the firm’s first international spin‑off. Justima’s AI agents scan more than 200 legal and regulatory sources each day, delivering tailored updates to corporate compliance teams. The new...
Walk Through: SpotDraft – AI-Powered CLM
Artificial Lawyer’s AL TV featured a walkthrough of SpotDraft, an AI‑powered contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform. The demo highlighted automated contract upload, AI‑driven data extraction, issue‑spotting guides, version comparison, and metadata querying. Product manager Jaskaran Bhatia explained how the system...
Legal Innovators California Interview: Joy Sherrod, Intel
Intel’s Director of Discovery and Associate General Counsel Joy Sherrod told Legal Innovators California that in‑house lawyers must remain legal experts first, but they need to become fluent in AI tools. Intel has instituted a company‑wide training program to ensure...
When Legal Terminology Is Correct But the Answer Is Still Wrong
Legal AI can generate text that uses perfectly correct terminology yet convey the wrong legal meaning, especially across common‑law and civil‑law systems. The article highlights how liquidated damages and penalty clauses appear interchangeable but have divergent enforceability rules. This gap...
Lavern the Agentic ‘Law Firm’ Has Arrived
Antti Innanen announced the open‑source release of Lavern, an ambitious legal‑tech platform built over six months with 155,000 lines of code. The Apache 2.0‑licensed repository bundles 67 specialist agents, eight end‑to‑end workflows, and a domain‑agnostic orchestration engine that can be repurposed for...
Inhouse AI? Still A Long Way To Go
A joint World CC‑Sirion survey reveals that in‑house legal teams lag behind the latest AI capabilities. While 67% of organizations have a repository for signed contracts, only 16% use AI/ML tools and just 13% have digitized contract playbooks. Even basic functions...
Walk Through: June, AI-Driven Case Management
June, an AI‑driven case management and legal automation platform, showcased its end‑to‑end workflow in a recent AL TV walkthrough. The demo highlighted a unified interface that guides cases from intake through closure, while autonomous AI agents handle routing, deadline tracking,...
Carta Buys ALSP Avantia, Launches AI-First Law Firm
Carta, a specialist ERP provider for private‑capital firms, has acquired UK‑based ALSP Avantia and launched Carta Law, an AI‑first NewMod law firm. The deal integrates Avantia’s AI workflow engine, Ava, and large language models such as Claude into Carta’s platform,...
Are Legal Tech AI Acquisitions Masking an Architectural Problem?
Recent legal‑tech M&A, such as DocuSign’s purchase of Lexion and Workday’s acquisition of Evisort, have added AI capabilities to existing contract‑life‑cycle management (CLM) platforms. The article argues that bolting AI onto document‑centric systems creates an "AI‑led" architecture, whereas platforms built...
Claude For Legal Launches, May Reshape the Legal Tech World
Anthropic has launched Claude for Legal, a dedicated AI platform targeting in‑house legal teams and law firms. The offering bundles practice‑area plugins, connectors to major legal‑tech tools, and an open‑source ecosystem with partners such as Harvey and Legora. Early adopters...