Legal technology (LegalTech) stories

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer selects Legora as its firmwide AI platform, boosting drafting tools and launching a new client collaboration portal.

Luminance opens its Autonomous Negotiation AI to non-lawyers, adding detailed reasoning and history for fully automated contract decisions.

Josef launches an AI Rapid Ingestion Engine to turn messy business inputs into structured legal data, promising to kill the traditional intake form.

Legal AI specialist Harvey will open a Singapore office in June, deepening its APAC footprint and support for regional law firms and corporates.

BriefCatch launches RealityCheck tool to spot AI hallucinations in legal briefs, as courts tighten scrutiny and sanction error-prone lawyers.

Conga unveils AiMe AI agents to automate pricing, quoting and contracts, promising end-to-end deal flows across Salesforce and Microsoft stacks.

Legal AI platform Legora raises USD $550m at a USD $5.55bn valuation to speed expansion across the US and wider Asia-Pacific markets.

Generate Summit names first 2026 keynotes for its Sydney B2B marketer conference, promising hands-on sessions and a strict no-selling rule.

A former BigLaw lawyer explains how swapping the safe partnership track for legal tech unlocked purpose, innovation and a front-row seat to AI.

iManage upgrades Insight+ to plug the AI governance gap, adding richer metadata, data warehouse links and multi-region, compliant search.

Legora appoints Jessica Turner to spearhead New Zealand push as demand grows for secure AI tools in everyday legal workflows.

AI is flooding construction workflows, but without better, real-time documentation, disputes over contracts and evidence will only intensify.

In a fatigued legal tech market, one marketing chief found that quiet empathy and mission, not louder features, turned clients into loyal advocates.

OpenID Foundation warns that fragmented rules for managing digital estates after death demand global standards before AI deepfakes escalate risks.

Law firms are turning to AI to cut drudge work, raising urgent questions about how to protect mentorship, ethics and future leaders.

Ethical AI and redesigned work models could help dismantle bias in law, paving the way for more women to thrive as leaders in the profession.

Proofpoint launches AI-first Nuclei suite to simplify archiving and compliance for small firms swamped by complex, multi-channel comms.

Elite upgrades its 3E cloud platform with AI, real-time data and compliance tools to speed law firms' work-to-cash and cut revenue leakage.

One million professionals across 107 countries now use Thomson Reuters' CoCounsel AI, as the tool spreads through tightly regulated sectors.

AI is speeding legal work, shifting risk upward and forcing lawyers to move from hands-on performers to orchestrators of judgement and control.