Legora raises $550 million, Harvey opens its Connector Library, and more - Legal AI Weekly #67

In this edition, covering 17 to 22 October:

• Legora raises $550 million in a Series E at an $8.8 billion valuation.
• Harvey makes its Connector Library generally available and adds Midpage and Mary Technology.
• The Law Society of England and Wales says lawyers cannot hand professional responsibility to AI.

Legora

Legora raised $550 million in a Series E led by Atreides Management, valuing the legal AI company at $8.8 billion, with annual recurring revenue now above $200 million. The money goes to expansion in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific and to its agentic operating system and new legal products. Series E

Jones Day will roll out Legora's platform to its 2,500 lawyers across its global offices over the coming months, and the firms will work together on Legora's legal research product and an AI training program with Professor Dan Hunter of King's College London. Jones Day

Legora also added two integrations. Customers with Blue J subscriptions can run Blue J tax research inside Legora through the Model Context Protocol, with inline citations to source materials, while Blue J runs the research on its own infrastructure. A beta with Ansarada lets authorised Legora customers browse Ansarada data rooms and import documents for due diligence, drafting and closing work, keeping Ansarada permissions and audit records; it is aimed mainly at Australia and New Zealand. Blue J · Ansarada

Harvey

Harvey made its Connector Library generally available. It links document management systems, data rooms, contract platforms, email and chat services to Harvey, with security reviewed connectors, custom MCP support, agent suggested tool selection, citations to source material and write back for some systems. Connector Library

Two connectors arrived the same week. Harvey customers can search Midpage's library of US case law, statutes, regulations and agency materials from Harvey Assistant, with a subscription to both services. Mary Technology, based in Austin, Texas, brings its factual investigation software into Harvey, so litigation teams can use matter documents, earlier findings, evidence reviews and audit histories while researching and drafting. Midpage · Mary Technology

Responsibility for AI work

The Law Society of England and Wales issued voluntary guidance saying lawyers cannot transfer professional responsibility to AI systems. It calls for careful tool selection and human oversight and warns that overreliance on AI could weaken future legal skills. The Law Society is a representative body, not the profession's regulator. Law Society

In Australia, guidelines from the Supreme Court of Tasmania took effect on 21 October for lawyers, litigants, witnesses and other court users who prepare documents with generative AI. Users must understand the risks, check all AI assisted content and be ready to explain how they used the tools, but do not need to certify AI use; expert witnesses must disclose it. The court may refer non compliant lawyers to the Legal Profession Board of Tasmania. Tasmania

In the US, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals reassigned a Mississippi case to another judge after Judge Henry Wingate acknowledged that an earlier order contained AI generated errors, which he attributed to a law clerk's unvetted use of Perplexity. The appeals court also vacated his injunction against the state's ban on DEI programs in public schools. The Mississippi order

On the client side, a Uswitch survey of 2,000 UK adults found that 39% would consider asking AI a legal question instead of a solicitor, citing speed, 24 hour access and lower costs. Nearly one in four of those who had used AI for advice received incorrect guidance that caused problems, the survey found. Uswitch

Tools for law firms

EvenUp customers can now use LexisNexis Protégé through the Companion assistant to ask legal questions using facts from their case records, with answers based on case law and statutes and linked to Lexis+. The integration needs subscriptions to both products, and the connection from Protégé back to EvenUp is not yet available. Protégé and EvenUp

August launched Products, a feature that uses agents to help law firms turn services into fixed fee offerings. The agents work from each firm's precedents, playbooks and templates, lawyers review and approve the work, and corrections can be saved as reusable skills for later matters. August

Lexsoft Systems will offer Clio Work and Clio Manage to law firms and corporate legal departments across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, integrated with their existing systems. EstateMin, founded in Ireland and now based in New York, raised €1 million in pre seed funding from NDRC, First Port Syndicate, Enterprise Ireland and angel investors to win US customers for its platform for trust and estate firms. Lexsoft and Clio · EstateMin

Disclosure, investigations and public records

LexisNexis launched the Intelligize+ AI Disclosure Management Suite for disclosure, legal and financial reporting teams, to analyse drafts against SEC filings, build repeatable research workflows, find disclosure gaps and validate filing requirements. Thomson Reuters introduced the next generation of its agentic CoCounsel platform for tax, audit and accounting in the United States. LexisNexis · CoCounsel tax

Sydney based Nuix launched the Nuix Neo AI Agent, which answers questions about documents, images, communications and transactions, links answers to source material, records its steps and lets investigators export conversations and findings. Casepoint introduced Casepoint Public Records for state, local and education organisations, covering requests from intake through review, redaction and production. Nuix · Casepoint