Clio buys Page, former antitrust officials launch FluxCap, and more - Legal AI Weekly #68

In this edition, covering 23 to 29 October:

• Clio acquired Page, a startup that uses AI to track legislation and regulation, to add that monitoring to its legal platform.
• Former US Justice Department antitrust officials Jonathan Kanter and Doha Mekki launched FluxCap, an AI platform for complex legal work.
• California's Judicial Council canceled a statewide rollout of AI translation at court counters after legal aid groups documented mistranslations.

Legal tools

Clio acquired Page, a Kitchener Waterloo startup that uses AI to monitor legislation, regulations and other government activity. Page's 12 person team joins Clio, which plans to add Page's tracking of upcoming legal requirements to its platform and keep supporting Page's existing customers. Terms were not disclosed. Clio and Page

Jonathan Kanter and Doha Mekki, former antitrust officials at the US Justice Department, launched FluxCap. It reviews documents, does legal research, helps build case strategies and finds gaps in evidence, starting with antitrust law, and is meant to support lawyers. FluxCap

Mary Technology launched a connector that lets lawyers investigate case facts in Claude using the matter documents, research and evidence reviews stored in Mary; it says more than 4,000 lawyers at over 150 firms use its software. Mary Technology

Lightbringer connected Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor to its patent service through MCP, so R&D teams can record inventions, search patent records and work with registered patent agents inside those tools. Lightbringer

A Sirion and Commerce & Contract Management Institute survey of more than 1,300 contract professionals found only 16% think they focus on the right terms; 56% use AI, but more than three quarters say it has not helped them set negotiation priorities. Contract survey

Harvey bought Aida, founded by Glean co-founder Piyush Prahladka and Atish Das Sarma, its fifth acquisition this year; Aida's team will help law firms organize internal knowledge into ontologies that give Harvey's agents more context, Artificial Lawyer reports. Harvey and Aida

Bloomberg Law brings federal and state court dockets, filings, alerts and litigation intelligence into Claude through an MCP connector. LegalZoom launched a free AI assistant that guides small business owners on filings and compliance from their records, also inside ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini and Perplexity. Bloomberg Law · LegalZoom

Ropes & Gray and OpenAI built a tool that reviews large document sets, groups commercial contracts by issue and drafts diligence reports; lawyers check the documents and outputs before clients get them. Ropes & Gray

LinkSquares launched a connector in Claude's directory that lets legal and business teams search contracts, create agreements from approved templates and manage legal requests within existing permissions and approvals, at no extra cost for customers on its Agentic Platform with Claude Team or Enterprise. LinkSquares

Courts

California's Judicial Council canceled plans to roll out AI translation at court counters statewide after a pilot in more than 30 courts, saying the service needs a review of its accuracy and efficiency. Legal aid groups had documented mistranslations. California courts

Lawsuits against AI companies

A unit of Authentic Brands Group and other Elvis Presley rights owners sued Anthropic on 23 October, alleging it trained its models on 274 of Presley's copyrighted songs without permission, including "Can't Help Falling in Love" and "Don't Be Cruel". Elvis songs

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued OpenAI and Sam Altman in Collin County, alleging deceptive marketing of ChatGPT and violations of a state child safety law. Texas seeks an injunction that would block minors from ChatGPT and require a court appointed evaluator to approve new models. Texas v OpenAI

Judge Edward Davila set a trial date of 19 July 2027 in Apple's trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, which disputes the claims, AppleInsider reports. Apple v OpenAI

Rules for AI run companies

The US House Oversight Committee is investigating Delaware's proposal for companies run by AI agents. Chairman James Comer asked Governor Matt Meyer for documents on the plan's safety risks, private sector involvement and possible liability protections for human owners, and said the inquiry could inform federal legislation limiting state AI rules. Delaware plan