AI applications in the legal sector, covering contract analysis, regulatory compliance, litigation support, and legal research tools.
OpenAI introduces Astra for Law, which combines GPT 6 Astra with legal search, tailored instructions, privacy controls and integrations for legal tools.
Relativity integrated its aiR legal platform with ChatGPT Enterprise, allowing legal teams to create matters, organize workspaces, and manage workflows through natural language.
Casepoint appointed former ATF privacy chief Varun Bisht as Vice President of Governance and Compliance.
Change has joined the K1x Collective, giving K1x nonprofit customers access to automated California charitable registration and renewal services.
LinkSquares has introduced an AI agent that turns plain language requirements into editable contract workflows, alongside customizable workflow blueprints.
Checkbox introduced First Pass, an AI agent that reviews legal requests, contracts, and invoices before they reach a lawyer. Early access is available now, with a broader launch planned for the first quarter of 2027.
Relativity has renamed RelativityOne as Relativity aiR, bringing its legal data platform and AI tools under one brand.
Nathan Reff will develop generative AI and machine learning tools for legal services within JND Legal Administration's Innovation and Strategy division.
Salesforce adopted Legora across its Legal and Corporate Affairs organization in North America, EMEA and APAC.
Lithuanian legal technology startup EnforceShield has raised €1.7 million to expand its platform for detecting, assessing, and removing intellectual property violations.
IDC named Docusign a Leader in its 2026 assessment of integrated signing workflow software vendors, citing its agreement management tools, integrations, AI contract analysis and workflow automation.
Casepoint IQ brings the company’s agentic, assistive and predictive AI tools into one framework for legal, government and compliance teams.
Harvey raised $550 million in a funding round co led by Diffusion and Lightspeed Venture Partners, valuing the legal AI company at $15.5 billion.
LEGALFLY's Contract Intelligence covers contracts before and after signing, with tools to track changes, risks, obligations, and required actions.
BriefCatch has launched a unified suite that combines legal writing, citation checking, and case verification tools in an online app and Microsoft products.
Harvey has acquired Guardrails AI, whose software tests, simulates and monitors AI agent behavior. The Guardrails AI team will join Harvey's product and engineering organization.
Magnar raised an $8 million Series A to expand its legal AI platform, enter Brazil and Mexico, and strengthen its operations across Latin America.
Axiom's survey finds that 92% of AI implementation requests to in house legal teams lack funding. Although 83% expect larger budgets in 2027, 55% expect workloads to grow faster than budgets.
Nuix has released generative AI tools for legal review in Discover SaaS and introduced an early version of AI Chat for querying case data.
Harvey and Everlaw are building an integration that will let legal teams query evidence stored in Everlaw directly from Harvey.
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