Welcome to your mid-week Legal IT Latest, where we help you to stay on top of a plethora of legal technology news.
Wins and Deals
First up is the news out last week that global firm Goodwin has completed a firm-wide deployment of legal GenAI platform Legora. This follows an announcement in March that Goodwin had selected Legora in the United States. Legora supports tasks including summarisation, issue-spotting, extraction of contract terms, initial drafts, document analysis in litigation, and exhibit management. The rollout includes training programmes, workshops, and weekly office hours to help users put training into practice. Mary O’Carroll, COO at Goodwin, said: “Rolling out Legora across the firm is about more than adopting new technology—it’s about leading delivery model change.” To read our interview with O’Carroll and new head of client value Chris Grant about some of the changes in play at Goodwin, see: https://legaltechnology.com/2025/08/28/beyond-the-billable-hour-goodwins-roadmap-to-redefine-client-value/
In the UK, global law firm Pinsent Masons has developed Portana, an online platform to streamline due diligence in complex M&A. It provides clients a real-time dashboard of status, key findings, red-flag issues, summary Q&A tables, and allows lawyers and clients to collaborate. Corporate partner Amie Norris said: “Portana is the next step in the evolution of due diligence delivery at Pinsent Masons. Designed in collaboration with clients, it’s a dynamic, data-driven solution which brings due diligence reporting into the 21st century.”
In other news, London-founded online legal services provider Lawhive has completed the acquisition of SRA-regulated law firm Woodstock Legal Services. LawHive is backed by Google Ventures, among others, and there has been much excitement in the mainstream press around a Google-backed AI platform buying a law firm.
The acquisition is significant because LawHive operates a technology-led model and this is being hailed as the first ever acquisition of a traditional law firm by an AI platform. LawHive launched in 2019 and combines tech and AI with human processes to create efficiencies. It’s AI assistant Lawrence is handling tasks that a paralegal can do. LawHive’s co-founder and CEO said: “We’re building the future of law: AI with people at the centre will transform how law is delivered for lawyers and clients.”
And a further alliance in Europe has seen ClauseBase enter into a partnership with LawVu to integrate its drafting and review tools into LawVu’s legal workspace for in-house teams. The integration (via Word add-in) allows access to contract precedents, fallback clauses, template automation, and faster document creation. Maarten Truyens, CEO & co-founder of ClauseBase, said: “Legal teams everywhere struggle to unlock and share the drafting and reviewing knowledge embedded in their legal workspace and the heads of individual lawyers. By partnering with Lawvu, we’re making it easier for teams to surface that knowledge – for example by finding clauses, reviewing based on standard templates, comparing against precedents – and then immediately apply it from within Microsoft Word.”
Product news
BigHand has introduced Resource Management Standard, a resource-management and work allocation solution aimed at mid-sized law firms. It is designed to integrate with existing systems, avoid unnecessary complexity, and help with utilisation, client retention, and internal work allocation. Dave Cook, BigHand’s global director for Resource Management, said: “By introducing Resource Management Standard, this creates a huge opportunity for mid-sized firms to demonstrate how they align the expertise of their lawyers to specific client matters, whilst improving profitability and increasing retention of talent.”
And last but very much not least, Harvey.ai is preparing to launch new iOS and Android mobile apps in November, extending Harvey to mobile devices. Features will include voice prompting, the ability to scan/upload files from mobile, and accessing matters and documents in Vault. While the full mobile app rolls out later, voice prompting is already live in the web version.
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