Relativity Acquires Document Automation Company Gavel, Extending Its Legal Data Platform Into Word
Relativity, the Chicago‑based e‑discovery leader, has acquired Los Angeles‑based Gavel, a document‑automation and AI drafting firm. The deal enables Relativity’s AI suite to operate directly inside Microsoft Word, allowing work products created in RelativityOne to be edited, redlined and finalized in the word processor with real‑time sync. Gavel’s team, including founder Dorna Moini and CTO Pierre Martin, will join Relativity, which plans to keep Gavel’s services running while gradually integrating its capabilities. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Integreon Names Krishna Nacha as CEO to Lead AI-Forward Growth Strategy
Integreon announced Krishna Nacha, former head of Americas at Iron Mountain, as its new chief executive officer and board member. Nacha, who brings over three decades of B2B technology and process‑services experience, will steer the firm’s "domain‑led, AI‑forward" growth plan...
Eve Builds on AI Workforce Launch with EveOS, An AI-Native Operational Platform for Plaintiff Firms
Eve, a legal‑AI specialist, unveiled EveOS, an AI‑native operating system that expands its platform with four new products—Atlas, Analyst, Communication Agents, and Research—while enhancing Auditor and Intake. Atlas creates a self‑updating case data layer that pulls information from case‑management tools,...
Clio Promotes Ronnie Gurion to President and COO
Clio announced the promotion of Ronnie Gurion to president and chief operating officer, expanding his duties beyond the COO role he has held since 2021. During his tenure, Clio’s annual recurring revenue surged from $100 million to $500 million, and the firm closed...
Florida Supreme Court Tackles AI Hallucinations with New Rule Applicable to All State Courts
The Florida Supreme Court amended Rule 2.515(d)(2) to require every signer of a court filing to certify that all cited legal authorities exist and are accurately referenced. The certification now applies to both attorneys and unrepresented parties, and the court may...
Darrow, the ‘AI Lab for Legal Risk,’ Launches a Platform to Let Plaintiffs’ Firms Manage Litigation Like an Investment Portfolio
Darrow, the AI‑driven legal‑risk lab, unveiled an industry‑first platform that lets plaintiffs’ firms manage litigation like an investment portfolio. The solution combines continuous case discovery, AI‑powered evaluation, real‑time portfolio dashboards, and an embedded conversational intelligence layer. Darrow reports the tool...
Claude for Legal and Access to Justice: The Good, the Bad, and the Unknown
Anthropic unveiled Claude’s biggest legal push yet, adding over 20 Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors, practice‑area plugins, and native Microsoft Office integrations. The rollout pairs the AI with justice‑tech partners—including CourtListener, Courtroom5, BoardWise, and Descrybe—and offers discounted Claude Pro pricing...
The Claude-Pocalypse Bypassed Legal Aid; LawDroid’s New Plugin Remedies That, with 15 Targeted Skills
Anthropic’s recent rollout of 12 legal‑specific Claude plugins ignored the needs of civil legal‑aid providers. In response, LawDroid launched a free, open‑source Legal Aid Plugin built for low‑income service organizations, offering 15 AI‑driven skills such as intake screening, document drafting,...
Some Thoughts On Harvey’s Launch of ‘LAB,’ An Open-Source, Long-Horizon Benchmark for Legal AI Agents
Harvey, now valued at $11 billion, launched the Legal Agent Benchmark (LAB), an open‑source framework to assess AI agents on long‑horizon legal tasks. The initial version offers over 1,200 tasks across 24 practice areas, evaluated against more than 75,000 expert‑written rubric...
EvenUp Extends Beyond Software with Launch of ‘Pre-Litigation-as-a-Service’ Offering For PI Law Firms
EvenUp unveiled Pre‑Litigation as a Service (PLAAS), an AI‑driven, staff‑augmented solution that runs the entire pre‑litigation workflow for personal‑injury firms. Early pilots report 95% recovery of policy limits, medical‑record requests 66 days faster, demand letters 47 days quicker, and roughly...
NetDocuments Unveils Legal Context Graph to Map Legal Knowledge, Alongside A ‘Reimagined’ Platform
NetDocuments unveiled its Legal Context Graph, a proprietary knowledge infrastructure that continuously maps relationships among documents, matters, communications, and people while preserving permissions. The company also launched a redesigned, “reimagined” platform featuring AI‑generated matter overviews, SmartSearch, and automatic version‑history summaries....
Aderant Introduces Agent Center at Momentum Global, Targeting Law Firm Back-Office Operations with AI
Aderant unveiled its Agent Center at the Momentum Global 2026 conference, introducing three AI‑driven agents that automate collections, e‑billing appeals, and lawyer talent evaluation. Built on the Stridyn platform with the MADDI AI layer, the framework ties agents tightly to...
Ken Crutchfield: When Open Source Meets Legal — How MikeOSS Signals the End of Legal’s Secret Sauce
Last week Will Chen launched MikeOSS, an open‑source platform that mirrors the functionality of commercial legal‑tech solutions Harvey and Legora, igniting viral interest in the developer community. By leveraging AI‑driven code generation, MikeOSS reduces development costs by one to two...
California Bar Proposes Rule Requiring Lawyers to Verify Every AI Output — and Five Other AI-Focused Ethics Changes
The California State Bar’s professional‑responsibility committee has proposed amendments to six Rules of Professional Conduct that embed specific AI obligations, moving from guidance to enforceable rules. The changes require lawyers to independently verify any AI‑generated output, disclose AI use when...
Practice Management Platform Clio To Discontinue Its Longtime Integration with Payments Processor LawPay
Clio announced that its long‑standing integration with 8am LawPay will end on August 31, 2026, when the contract expires. The move follows Clio’s 2021 launch of its own native payment engine, Clio Payments, which will continue to serve users. LawPay’s 2022 acquisition...