More AI + More Jobs, Eudia Webinar, Felix, Legal Innovators +

Let’s start this week’s Wrap with the fact that the largest legal market in the world – the US – is consistently adding more lawyer jobs, even as AI use massively expands there.

As data from SurePoint shows, the demand to hire lawyers into new roles is higher now (Q1 2026) compared to the last quarter, and also higher than this time last year.

What does this tell us?

Correlation is not causation, but it shows that AI is not – yet – having any notable effect on lawyer jobs. In fact, if you wanted to really push the coincidence one could argue that AI use across the US economy is perhaps helping to support more legal demand….however, what is more likely is that overall legal demand is simply rising year on year. In fact, total legal demand growth is a long-term trend that shows no sign of decline.

That demand is so great because of increasing regulation, law making, and the reality that despite all the recent turbulence the US at least has a very strong transactional market. In short, the world just needs lots of business lawyers, while AI, for now, is not having any meaningful downward effect on that trend. And perhaps….and it’s just a perhaps…..it might even be adding a little bit to overall activity in the economy, hence more need for commercial lawyers.

So, the end of lawyers? Nope. In fact, it’s the apparent never-ending expansion of demand for fleshy, human lawyers.

Is this the same in the UK and other markets? Don’t know. But, one would guess it’s not that massively different.

One other point: this will always be the counter-weight to arguments for change. Why? Because if what you offer is in very high demand, then you have way more bargaining power to stick with the status quo business model….for now.

Of course, this doesn’t cancel out the rise of the NewMods, the way inhouse teams are doing more internally with AI, or that AI models may leap ahead to such levels of accuracy (as Anthropic is suggesting they are about to) that the whole game changes yet again.

So, good news for those who are lawyers right now, but as Han Solo said to Luke Skywalker on the Millennium Falcon: ‘Don’t get cocky, kid!’ Things could change.

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OK, and now for some more news:

Patlytics, the AI-driven patent startup, has raised a $40m Series B round, bringing total funding to nearly $65m. This funding will help them to ‘double down on product development and global expansion. including opening an EMEA office in London’. Congrats to the team there.
Legora has signed a multi-year partnership with baseball star Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees in yet another legal AI / sports tie-up. Who’d ever have thunk that legal AI and sports would go together like this…? Maybe it’s just a function of huge funding rounds and the need to blow that money on something?
Rafi Law Group – which does personal injury in the US – has launched ‘Rafi Law Services’, a newly formed Management Services Organization (MSO), and gained a $125m investment from a strategic equity investor that values Rafi Law Services at approximately $450m. This is not exactly an ‘AI-first’ law firm play, but it looks to AL like a NewMod, in that they’re using the MSO structure to build a new model. Maybe AI will become a bigger part of this in the future? Note: MSOs are the way that a lot of NewMods operate in the US.
Felix, an AI workflow platform, designed to help legal, insurance and accounting teams turn complex processes into structured, reliable systems, has gained $1.7m in pre-seed funding led by XYZ Venture Capital, with participation from angel investors including current and former leaders and founders at Amazon, Apple, Palantir, Flexport, Yelp and Midjourney. Felix converts complex, multi-step workflows into scalable automations that are deterministic by design. The same input produces the same output every time, with full traceability across each step, a requirement in industries where decisions carry legal, financial or regulatory consequences. Tomas Scavnicky, Co-Founder of Felix, said: ‘AI has made it easier to work faster as individuals, but it hasn’t solved how work gets done across a business. In professional services, you need consistency, accountability and control. Felix turns AI from something experimental into something you can actually run your operations on. In law, that matters. You’re not relying on black box outputs, and your clients get both the service and the confidence they expect.’ More here about Felix.

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Webinar: Eudia + ServiceNow: The 10x Future of Inhouse Legal Teams – April 22

On April 22, 12 noon EST, 9AM PST, and 5PM GMT, Artificial Lawyer is partnering with Eudia and ServiceNow where we will explore: ‘Self-Service Legal: Eudia, ServiceNow, and the 10x Future of In-House Legal Teams’.

It’s free to attend the live webinar, but please RSVP for the first public conversation about the partnership between Eudia and ServiceNow.

RSVP here.

Webinar Description:

What happens when the System of Intelligence for in-house legal teams meets the platform 85% of the Fortune 500 already runs on?

ServiceNow didn’t start as a partner with Eudia. They started as a customer. They built their own Enterprise Brain, saw the results, and said: bring this to everyone.

Join Eudia CEO Omar Haroun and ServiceNow’s Andrew Brereton live on April 22, with Artificial Lawyer founder Richard Tromans moderating.

Find out:

Why the enterprise stack has been missing an intelligence layer, and what changes when it finally exists inside ServiceNow workflows
How Expert Digital Twins operate inside Legal Service Delivery and Contract Management Pro without routing everything through legal
Where the Eudia x ServiceNow roadmap goes over the next 12 to 18 months

There will also be an opportunity for some live Q&A.

RSVP here.

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Legal Innovators – California and Paris – June

And, you can now do express registration to join Legal Innovators California and Legal Innovators Europe in Paris this June.

A Legal Tech Conference For All of Europe

Legal Innovators Europe – Paris – June 24 and 25.

And,

Legal Innovators California, the landmark West Coast legal tech event, will take place on June 10 and 11, in the heart of the Bay Area, the home to many of the world’s leading AI businesses – and plenty of legal tech pioneers as well! More information and tickets here.