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News•Feb 27, 2026
How Will Mass Gen AI Adoption Change Law Firms? A Chat With Legalweek Speaker Colleen Nihill
Morgan Lewis’s chief AI and knowledge officer, Colleen Nihill, explained how widespread generative AI adoption will overhaul law‑firm operations. She warned that routine document drafting, research, and due‑diligence tasks will shift from billable hours to AI‑driven efficiencies. Firms that merely adopt tools without redefining value propositions risk commoditising their services. Nihill urged firms to create new pricing models and AI‑centric expertise to stay competitive.
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News•Feb 27, 2026
ILTA Just-in-Time: Up-Skilling Lawyers in a Transforming Profession
The ILTA Just‑in‑Time initiative addresses the rapid digital transformation reshaping the legal profession. New lawyers now graduate into environments dominated by AI‑assisted drafting, cloud‑based research, and remote collaboration tools. ILTA’s on‑demand training modules aim to up‑skill attorneys quickly, bridging gaps...
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News•Feb 27, 2026
Professional Probation Recommended for Attorney Whose Briefs Had AI-Generated Fake Quotes
A state bar has recommended professional probation for an attorney who inserted AI‑generated fabricated quotations into multiple court briefs. The misconduct was uncovered after a routine review revealed that the cited sources did not exist. The disciplinary recommendation follows the...
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News•Feb 26, 2026
Exclusive: The Barrister Group Launches Standalone Operations Business to Help Modernise Chambers
The Barrister Group has spun off its operational platform as a standalone service called VENTRiQ, offering technology‑enabled back‑office support to UK barristers' chambers. The new proposition handles everything from workflow automation and diary management to invoicing and cybersecurity, leveraging an...
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News•Feb 26, 2026
HaystackID Acquires Data Intelligence Startup eDiscovery AI
HaystackID announced the acquisition of eDiscovery AI, a data‑intelligence startup focused on AI‑driven electronic discovery solutions. The deal builds on a pre‑existing partnership and is aimed at bolstering HaystackID's generative AI capabilities across its legal‑tech platform. By integrating eDiscovery AI's...
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News•Feb 26, 2026
Legal Marketing Company FirmPilot Raises $22M in Series A Funding
Legal marketing platform FirmPilot announced a $22 million Series A round, with Thomson Reuters Ventures among the backers. The capital will fund new integrations with leading case‑management systems and the creation of a proprietary generative AI model. FirmPilot aims to broaden its...
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Deals•Feb 26, 2026
FirmPilot Secures $22M Series A Funding Backed by Thomson Reuters Ventures
Legal marketing platform FirmPilot announced a $22 million Series A round to accelerate product initiatives, including case management integrations and a generative AI model. The round was backed by Thomson Reuters Ventures. The funding will support FirmPilot's growth and technology...
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News•Feb 25, 2026
Cloud Software Provider Intapp Launches Multi-Industry Agentic AI Platform
Intapp announced Celeste, a multi‑industry agentic AI platform that embeds autonomous agents into its cloud software suite. The launch follows recent strategic partnerships with Anthropic and Harvey, giving Celeste access to large‑language models and domain‑specific legal AI. Celeste is positioned...
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News•Feb 25, 2026
Direct-to-Business Legal AI Startup Inhouse Announces $5M in Seed Funding
Inhouse, a direct‑to‑business legal AI startup, announced a $5 million seed financing round. The capital will be deployed to strengthen its agentic AI platform that blends machine learning with on‑demand human lawyers. By focusing on small and midsize enterprises, Inhouse aims...
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News•Feb 25, 2026
NetDocuments Announces 7 New Pre-Built ndMax Apps
NetDocuments introduced seven new pre‑built ndMax applications designed to automate key legal workflows. The suite covers discovery response generation, contract analysis and review, and assistance with USPTO office‑action replies. By leveraging the low‑code ndMax platform, these apps can be deployed...
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News•Feb 25, 2026
From Market Meltdown to Strategic Realignment: Harvey and LexisNexis Chart Diverging Paths with Anthropic
Anthropic’s new legal plugin sparked market concern as a potential disruptor, prompting divergent responses from two legal‑tech players. Harvey announced a direct integration with Anthropic’s Claude model, allowing enterprise users to invoke Harvey’s legal workflows inside Claude threads. LexisNexis, meanwhile,...
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News•Feb 25, 2026
The End of the Magic Wand: Why 2026 Demands Resilience Prompting
Law firms have shifted from chasing a perfect AI prompt to recognizing that modern reasoning models can produce fluent but subtly incorrect answers. The article introduces "Resilience Prompting," a workflow mindset that assumes every AI output may be wrong and...
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Deals•Feb 25, 2026
Inhouse Secures $5M Seed Round to Expand AI-Powered Legal Services
Legal AI startup Inhouse announced a $5 million seed funding round to enhance its agentic AI capabilities and expand its direct-to-business legal services for small and midsize enterprises.
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News•Feb 24, 2026
Connecticut Supreme Court Reckons With AI Hallucinations
The Connecticut Supreme Court confronted the reliability of AI‑generated evidence, focusing on the risk of hallucinations that blur fact from fiction. Justice Ecker warned that AI makes truth verification increasingly difficult. The justices examined recent filings that relied on AI...
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News•Feb 24, 2026
Former Goodwin COO Mary O'Carroll Joins Legal Tech Startup Sandstone as Product Adviser
Former Goodwin chief operating officer Mary O'Carroll has joined legal‑tech startup Sandstone as a product adviser. O'Carroll, who previously held senior roles at Ironclad and Google, will serve in a part‑time capacity. The appointment comes just weeks after Sandstone announced...
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News•Feb 24, 2026
Three Years After Launching As First AI Legal Assistant, CoCounsel Reaches 1 Million Users — and Thomson Reuters Teases What’s...
CoCounsel, the first GPT‑4‑powered AI legal assistant, celebrated hitting one million users across 107 countries three years after its March 2023 launch. Developed by Casetext, the platform was acquired by Thomson Reuters just four months after release, accelerating its market penetration....
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News•Feb 23, 2026
Before We Predict The End Of Lawyers, Let’s Take A Deep Breath
Generative AI is being touted as a productivity breakthrough for law firms, but the author argues it may actually increase workload. Drawing on the Solow paradox, the piece suggests that more information leads to more analysis, verification, and billable hours...
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Deals•Feb 23, 2026
Sirion Secures Majority Investment From Haveli Investments
Sirion, an AI-native contract lifecycle management platform, announced it has completed a majority investment from Austin‑based private equity firm Haveli Investments. The funding will accelerate product innovation, expand global go‑to‑market presence, and enhance AI-driven contracting capabilities. Deal terms were not...
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Deals•Feb 13, 2026
Zerodrift Raises $2M in Pre‑seed Funding
Legaltech startup Zerodrift announced a $2 million pre‑seed round to fund product development and market expansion. The financing, disclosed in a recent announcement, marks the company's first external capital infusion.
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