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The Vendor View 2026 – A breakthrough AI year, and one of reckoning

The Vendor View 2026 – A breakthrough AI year, and one of reckoning

Having spoken at the end of 2025 to a number of legal tech law firms leaders about their predictions for this year, Legal IT Insider has turned the microphone over
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Litera’s AI adoption in numbers: Customers, usage, strategy and moat

Litera’s AI adoption in numbers: Customers, usage, strategy and moat

By Tom Saunders, RSGI At the start of January, Litera announced a “record-breaking year for AI adoption among law firms and corporate legal customers worldwide”, with 10x growth since Q3 2025.
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Exclusive: Paul Orchard joins Norton Rose Fulbright as director of innovation and legal transformation for EMEAPAC

Exclusive: Paul Orchard joins Norton Rose Fulbright as director of innovation and legal transformation for EMEAPAC

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) has hired Paul Orchard as director of innovation and legal transformation for Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific (EMEAPAC), we can reveal. Orchard
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Relativity launches aiR for Case Strategy for GenAI-assisted case preparation

Relativity launches aiR for Case Strategy for GenAI-assisted case preparation

Relativity today (12 January) announced the general availability of its generative AI-powered case intelligence solution, Relativity aiR for Case Strategy. Tested by over 50 customers, Relativity says that the new solution makes
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Microsoft hires raft of Robin AI engineers to bolster its Word team 

Microsoft hires raft of Robin AI engineers to bolster its Word team 

Microsoft has hired multiple former engineers and product specialists from failed legal tech company Robin AI to join its Word team, helping to bolster Word’s AI and other capabilities for legal professionals.  The tech giant’s hires
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Haveli to buy majority stake in CLM vendor Sirion

Haveli to buy majority stake in CLM vendor Sirion

Contract lifecycle management vendor Sirion is set to be acquired by Haveli Investments, an Austin-based technology focused investment firm, which will make a majority investment in the Utah-headquartered company. Sirion
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Harvey to build Memory for context retention across matters

Harvey to build Memory for context retention across matters

Legal GenAI vendor Harvey today (8 January) announced the launch of Memory, a context retention product that it is looking to co-build with input from the legal industry. Harvey says that when Memory is turned on
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Thomson Reuters’ State of the US Legal Market report – Record profits and increasingly unstable ground

Thomson Reuters’ State of the US Legal Market report – Record profits and increasingly unstable ground

The US legal market in 2025 celebrated record profits while standing on increasingly unstable ground, Thomson Reuters’ 2026 state of the market report out today (7 January) finds. The average law
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ContractPodAi rebrands as Leah

ContractPodAi rebrands as Leah

By Neville Hawcock, RSGI Many people see a new year as an opportunity for change. But ContractPodAi is making a fresher start than most: from today it wants to be
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2025/26 Reflections & Predictions: Jenifer Swallow – Ethics, AI adoption & in-house insourcing

2025/26 Reflections & Predictions: Jenifer Swallow – Ethics, AI adoption & in-house insourcing

Legal IT Insider sat down at the end of the year with strategic advisor Jenifer Swallow to reflect on some of the key milestones of 2025 and get our crystal
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2025/26 Reflections & Predictions: Tony McKenna, Lawfront – A significant increase in GenAI adoption

2025/26 Reflections & Predictions: Tony McKenna, Lawfront – A significant increase in GenAI adoption

Legal IT Insider’s editor-in-chief sat down with Lawfront’s CIO Tony McKenna to reflect on 2025, see whether last year’s predictions came true, and make some new predictions for 2026. 2025
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2025/26 Reflections & Predictions: John Craske, CMS – Legal tech shifts from push to pull

2025/26 Reflections & Predictions: John Craske, CMS – Legal tech shifts from push to pull

Legal IT Insider’s editor-in-chief Caroline Hill sat down with CMS’s CIO & CKO, John Craske to reflect on the key milestones of 2025 and what 2026 is likely to have
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2025/26 Reflections & Predictions: Sarah-Jane Davies, ArcelorMittal – In-house teams are more tech-enabled

2025/26 Reflections & Predictions: Sarah-Jane Davies, ArcelorMittal – In-house teams are more tech-enabled

Sarah-Jane Davies, head of legal operations at steel giant ArcelorMittal, says that this has been a year in which law firms awakened to the fact that in-house legal teams are
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2025/26 Reflections & Predictions: Jana Blount, NRF – A year of onboarding new tech

2025/26 Reflections & Predictions: Jana Blount, NRF – A year of onboarding new tech

Jana Blount, the newly-arrived director of client solutions and digital strategy at Norton Rose Fulbright, reflects on a year of big personal and industry change. 2025 has finally seen legal
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Rewriting the law firm tech playbook? Tony McKenna on becoming CIO of Lawfront

Rewriting the law firm tech playbook? Tony McKenna on becoming CIO of Lawfront

Lawfront in November announced the appointment of Tony McKenna as its chief information officer – a high-level hire for a now circa £130m revenue UK firm that is already disrupting the law
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Exclusive: Slaughter and May hires Anthony Vigneron as head of innovation 

Exclusive: Slaughter and May hires Anthony Vigneron as head of innovation 

In a major hire for Slaughter and May, the magic circle law firm has appointed Clifford Chance’s respected director of legal technology solutions, Anthony Vigneron, as head of innovation.  Vigneron (pictured below) will join Slaughter and May in
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Aderant enters strategic partnership with Harvey – Interview 

Aderant enters strategic partnership with Harvey – Interview 

Aderant today (15 December) announced a strategic partnership with legal GenAI platform Harvey, with Harvey integrating directly with Aderant to bridge the practice and business of law. It is anticipated that the integration will
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