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A category of AI software for legal research, contract review, and drafting, used by law firms and in-house teams; vendors include Harvey and Legora.
HSBC's survey of 100 UK law firms finds 60% citing clients bringing work in-house and almost three-quarters citing technology as a disruptor. The figures record perception, and the pricing question comes from one chief executive.
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Kirkland & Ellis agreed this year to pay Palantir $500 million to build technology for its private equity fundraising advice, Business Insider reported. With Harvey saying it has users at 80% of the largest 100 firms, one consultant says the edge has to come from what the models know.
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Z.ai launched GLM Legal to cut hallucinated citations in legal work, but it published no accuracy figures anyone can verify independently. Teams weighing it against Harvey or CoCounsel will have to build their own citation test, because no public number supports the comparison.
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About one in five UK and Irish law firms that have widely adopted AI report difficulty meeting billable-hour targets, legal software company Clio found. Firms must now decide who keeps the hours AI saves, and who pays to train juniors once software does the document review.
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Venture-backed AI companies bought 195 AI startups through Sept. 29, Crunchbase data shows, 14% more than all of 2025, while buyers rose just 2%. The same companies are buying more often, so sellers face a pool of acquirers that has barely grown.
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LawVu has launched Lens, contract analysis AI that works from the structured data a legal team already keeps inside LawVu's LegalOS platform. What it can tell a buyer depends on how much of that team's contract record is already there.
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A developer's GraphRAG build turns Thailand's 96-section PDPA into a 190-node graph so an agent can walk from Section 26 to the fines that cite it. The published part argues the vector-search gap from vocabulary and reports no measured recall figures.
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Google and Anthropic are pitching lawyers AI that pulls citations from legal databases as one researcher's tally of fabricated-citation cases nears 2,000. The firm that signs the filing still has to check every citation, whichever lab's connectors produced it.
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Tenet is post-trained on Moonshot's Kimi K3, converting per-call payments to OpenAI, Anthropic and Google into a fixed training bill. The counterparty risk moved rather than disappeared.
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Lightspeed and Diffusion co-led $550m at a $15.6bn mark, which added $4.6bn of paper value in six months and only reads as ordinary software if $400m of ARR becomes about $1.56bn. Eighty of the Am Law 100 already buy.
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Astra for Law is GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and analysis instructions wrapped around it. OpenAI will also sell that index through an API to Harvey and Legora, at a price it has not published.
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Fearn charges $2,500 for a provisional patent filing and $9,000 for a non-provisional, with its drafting fee at risk if the patent office allows no claims at all, a condition that any single allowed claim clears. Its launch customers talk about turnaround.
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Noxtua's Series C runs past 100 million euros and gives C.H.BECK a qualified majority, while five earlier backers, among them CMS, Dentons and Global Brain Corporation, leave a company built on publishers' data.
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Noxtua's Series C passes 100 million euros and five existing backers exit in the same transaction, so the money is harder to read than the change of control it hands to a 60-million-document publisher.
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Max Junestrand told Politico that Europe's opportunity is in applications, and in the same conversation he agreed that European customers waiting longer for new American models is a competitive disadvantage.
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A March 2026 update lifted usage and inverted Harvey's gross margin, from about 50% to minus 50%. Its answer is Tenet, a legal model post-trained on the open-weight Kimi K3 base and run on compute it controls.
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The legal toolkit ships as its own entry in the ChatGPT model picker and its own API string. Firms weighing it against retrieval stacks they already built still have no price to compare.
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A dev.to guide scores every action an AI legal agent takes by reversibility, blast radius and stakes, then attaches controls by grade: maker-checker on anything executed or filed, attorney review on all substantive work product.
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Supio told SiliconAngle its long-horizon agents own a records request end to end, alerting staff only when it stalls. The company says roughly two-thirds of the work in a case is communication with outside parties.
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Insight Partners manages more than $90 billion and holds late-stage co-investment exposure to both OpenAI and Anthropic, but its direct AI money goes to vertical applications. The legal AI round it skipped is now priced at $5.55 billion.
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