It’s 48 days until Christmas and in some places the decorations are already going up. But this special Bonus Wrap has more immediate things to focus on, namely some of the news stories from this week that are not in Friday’s edition.
US law firm Akin and its Funds Frontier Lab have launched ‘Living Fund File’, a product ‘designed around the lifecycle of a fund to preserve and connect knowledge developed across matters and over time, making that collective experience more useful to lawyers and clients’. It combines practice-specific workflows, market intelligence capabilities and client collaborations already in use or development, they said.
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eDiscovery company DISCO has hired Mich Razon, who joins as Chief Technology Officer. She comes from Thomson Reuters, where she served as CTO and Head of Engineering for Legal AI. She brings more than 30 years of experience, including previous executive roles at Google Cloud and Mastercard. And they also hired Johann Wrede, who joins as Chief Marketing Officer, having previously held the same role at Auros and Emburse. He also spent more than 14 years in marketing leadership roles at SAP. Congrats to both.
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K&L Gates has recently launched a Physical AI and Autonomous Systems group focused on the legal and regulatory issues emerging as AI moves beyond software and into the physical world, including autonomous vehicles, robotics, drones, intelligent infrastructure and industrial automation.
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CLM Leah has launched ‘Harness Builder’, a new capability within its Maestro platform that lets subject matter experts create AI applications by describing the business outcomes they need. Maestro works with users to define an objective and build a complete system around it.
For example, ‘a legal operations team could describe a need to better manage outside counsel spend, and Maestro could build a system to review invoices against billing guidelines, track spend against matter budgets, flag unusual charges or potential overruns, and route exceptions for approval. It also connects the process across existing enterprise systems and creates a dedicated application employees can use to oversee the work,’ they explained.
FTI Consulting has hired former Eversheds Sutherland CEO Mark Wasserman as a Senior Managing Director focused on advising law firms, corporate legal departments, boards and senior executives. Congrats to Mark!
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Harvey has launched a new capability for lawyers who handle lawsuits and internal investigations. Built on Harvey’s fact graph, Harvey reads millions of case documents, extracts relevant facts, flags inconsistencies, and creates a shared record that updates as new information arrives. From that foundation, Harvey agents can draft chronologies, deposition outlines, and briefs from those facts, so lawyers spend more time on argument and analysis, they explained.
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CLM Agiloft has launched a new suite of execution-focused AI agents inside its Ask AI platform: a Bulk Update Agent, a Contract Request Agent, and an eSignature Agent for Adobe Acrobat Sign, plus a Multi-Pane Document Viewer and a preview of its new MCP Server, with Anthropic’s Claude as the first external agent client.
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Orbital, an AI platform used by over 5,000 real estate professionals, has launched new capabilities for Scottish real estate, built alongside UK law firm Pinsent Masons, which piloted the new features.
The workflows let real estate professionals and lawyers use Orbital on matters governed by Scots law for the first time. The 22 new workflows cover title sheets, Sasine deeds, searches, leases and PSG offers, and can produce first drafts of PSG Certificates of Title for solicitor review.
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BarristerAI, an Australian legal research platform, has launched new sentencing research tools that find comparable sentencing decisions, give the likely range with each figure traced to the judgment, and draft advices and submissions on sentence with a schedule of comparable sentences.
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DealCloser, the AI-powered transaction management platform, today announced an integration with Harvey. Built using the MCP, the connection supports both read and write capabilities, enabling lawyers to access DealCloser transaction data and take approved actions directly from Harvey.
The connection brings together two complementary parts of the legal workflow. Harvey supports research, drafting, due diligence and document review, while DealCloser manages the people, documents, responsibilities, approvals, signatures and other activities required to move a transaction through closing. More here.
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A Pramata survey of 464 Legal, Finance, Commercial Ops and IT leaders at companies with $500M+ in revenue, found that nearly 80% are already using AI on their contract data, but only 25% say that data is ready for an AI agent to act on without a person double-checking
Much of this comes down to scattered data: 61% say their contract data lives in four or more places, and only 11% can get a reliable answer in minutes, they said.
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Pilot5, an adversarial intelligence for legal teams, has launched Adversarial Verification. Every citation in a Pilot5 legal memo is read by an independent checker, PelAIkan, built by legal tech expert Damien Charlotin, before the lawyer signs.
Pilot5 verifies that the cited case exists; PelAIkan reads the source in the official databases and verifies that it says what the memo claims. As PelAIkan’s states: ‘Most tools confirm a citation exists. PelAIkan goes further: it pulls the source, locates the pinpoint, and tests congruence.’
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Newcode, the ‘configurable AI harness for law firms‘, has announced a technology alliance with iManage. The collaboration aims to help law firms streamline legal workflows by connecting Newcode’s AI-powered workspace with content managed in the iManage platform enabling legal professionals to access and work with relevant documents and matter information without leaving their workflow.
The initial integration will focus on connecting the iManage platform with Nova, Newcode’s intelligent workspace, allowing legal professionals to access, draft, review and update documents within their existing workflows. Changes are saved back to the iManage platform, where existing iManage permissions, versioning and security policies continue to apply, they said.
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Harvey and Jus Mundi have announced a joint partnership. Through the partnership, Jus Mundi’s specialized agent – Jus AI – is integrated directly into Harvey’s Assistant, Agents, Vault and Workflows. This gives international arbitration and cross-border disputes teams authoritative, citation-backed research inside the same environment where they review case files and draft submissions.
The partnership brings Jus Mundi’s arbitration and international law agentic AI to the matter itself, without the matter leaving Harvey. A practitioner can test a client’s position against relevant awards, treaty practice and institutional rules, then compare that research with the record in a Harvey Vault. ‘The result can go straight into a draft memo, pleading or witness-preparation outline, with every authority linked to its source on Jus Mundi’s platform,’ they explained.
More here. And yep, Harvey is just pouring out connections, alliances, and new features at the moment.
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Legal Innovators New York Conference – Nov 17 + 18
The two-day legal innovation conference, in association with global law firm White & Case, and held at the very cool Quorum venue by Convene in Midtown, New York, will have Day One focused on law firms, and Day Two all about the inhouse world.
We’ll be exploring how legal AI is changing our sector, where we have got to, what we have learned so far, and how to handle what comes next – and hearing from those who are right at the cutting edge of this evolution.
It’s going to be both highly useful to everyone who attends, with plenty of takeaways that can be applied to your law firm or legal team – and a lot of fun, with lots of opportunities to network and also see all the latest new product developments from the world’s leading legal tech companies.
Join us this November for a legal innovation conference that will make a difference!
Here’s the Express Registration link for your free ticket if you work at a law firm or within an inhouse legal team.
Legal Innovators New York Conference – Nov 17 + 18
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OK folks, usually I say have a nice weekend at this point, but we’re already well into it. So, hope you have a very nice rest of your weekend!
Richard Tromans, Founder, Artificial Lawyer and Chair, Legal Innovators conferences.
P.S. Review of what heard and seen at Legal Innovators UK, next week.
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