Legal technology (LegalTech) stories
Legora hits USD $100 million ARR as legal AI demand grows
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digital transformation
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risk & compliance
Legora tops USD $100 million ARR in 18 months as legal AI adoption accelerates across firms and corporate teams.
Agentic AI raises new cybersecurity and privacy risks
Last week
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data protection
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digital transformation
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martech
Norton Rose Fulbright warns that AI agents could intensify privacy and security challenges for Asian companies as data moves across systems and borders.
AI & automation could lift law firm profits, study finds
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digital transformation
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rpa
Law firms in US and Canada face rising admin drag as LEAP research finds AI and automation could unlock profitability through fewer manual tasks.
Harvey raises USD $200 million in AI legal funding
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digital transformation
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rpa
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risk & compliance
Harvey wins USD $200 million as investors back its plan to turn legal AI from chat tools into workflow-running agents.
Thomson Reuters report spotlights gap in legal teams' value
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digital transformation
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rpa
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risk & compliance
In-house legal teams see themselves driving strategy, but a new report shows most C-suite leaders barely recognise their contribution.
Smarsh unveils AI agents to speed probes & cut costs
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saas
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risk & compliance
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erp
Smarsh launches AI agents to slash legal discovery and compliance surveillance time and costs for regulated firms handling vast data.
Arcadian's AI success: Start small, solve real problems
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digital transformation
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apm
Arcadian Digital backs small, tightly scoped AI projects solving real business problems over hype-fuelled, grandiose rollouts.
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer adopts Legora AI firmwide
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document management
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data analytics
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ecm
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer selects Legora as its firmwide AI platform, boosting drafting tools and launching a new client collaboration portal.
Luminance opens AI contract tool with clearer reasoning
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digital transformation
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rpa
Luminance opens its Autonomous Negotiation AI to non-lawyers, adding detailed reasoning and history for fully automated contract decisions.
Josef unveils AI engine to kill legal intake forms
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digital transformation
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cx
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martech
Josef launches an AI Rapid Ingestion Engine to turn messy business inputs into structured legal data, promising to kill the traditional intake form.
Legal AI firm Harvey to launch new Singapore office
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digital transformation
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cx
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martech
Legal AI specialist Harvey will open a Singapore office in June, deepening its APAC footprint and support for regional law firms and corporates.
BriefCatch unveils RealityCheck to tackle AI errors
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risk & compliance
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genai
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llms
BriefCatch launches RealityCheck tool to spot AI hallucinations in legal briefs, as courts tighten scrutiny and sanction error-prone lawyers.
Conga launches AiMe AI agents for end-to-end deal flows
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crm
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digital transformation
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martech
Conga unveils AiMe AI agents to automate pricing, quoting and contracts, promising end-to-end deal flows across Salesforce and Microsoft stacks.
Legora raises USD $550m to fuel US & APAC AI growth
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Legal AI platform Legora raises USD $550m at a USD $5.55bn valuation to speed expansion across the US and wider Asia-Pacific markets.
Generate Summit unveils 2026 B2B marketer keynotes
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martech
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llms
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marketing
Generate Summit names first 2026 keynotes for its Sydney B2B marketer conference, promising hands-on sessions and a strict no-selling rule.
From practicing lawyer to legal engineer: Why the safe bet isn't always the best bet
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document management
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digital transformation
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ecm
A former BigLaw lawyer explains how swapping the safe partnership track for legal tech unlocked purpose, innovation and a front-row seat to AI.
iManage enhances Insight+ to close the AI governance gap
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data protection
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document management
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digital transformation
iManage upgrades Insight+ to plug the AI governance gap, adding richer metadata, data warehouse links and multi-region, compliant search.
Legora names New Zealand lead to drive legal AI use
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data protection
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digital transformation
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rpa
Legora appoints Jessica Turner to spearhead New Zealand push as demand grows for secure AI tools in everyday legal workflows.
AI won't reduce construction disputes unless documentation improves
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devops
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digital transformation
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rpa
AI is flooding construction workflows, but without better, real-time documentation, disputes over contracts and evidence will only intensify.
What a stressed market taught me about marketing
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cmo
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legaltech
In a fatigued legal tech market, one marketing chief found that quiet empathy and mission, not louder features, turned clients into loyal advocates.