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Leading SA firm Webber Wentzel rolls out Legora as part of ‘multi-faceted partnership’

Leading SA firm Webber Wentzel rolls out Legora as part of ‘multi-faceted partnership’

Leading South African law firm and Linklaters alliance partner Webber Wentzel has today (26 August) announced a multi-faceted partnership with legal AI platform Legora. The Legora platform has been rolled
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ILTACON 2025: The vendor briefings – Agents, ecosystems and the next stage of maturity

ILTACON 2025: The vendor briefings – Agents, ecosystems and the next stage of maturity

This year’s ILTACON in Washington was heavy on AI, but the conversation with vendors has shifted. Legal IT Insider’s briefings weren’t about potential use cases or speculative roadmaps. Instead, they
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Jackson Walker promotes Bill Finner to CIO and Greg Lambert to CINO 

Jackson Walker promotes Bill Finner to CIO and Greg Lambert to CINO 

Texas-headquartered Am Law 200 firm Jackson Walker has promoted longtime technology leader Bill Finner to chief information officer and chief knowledge services officer Greg Lambert as its first-ever chief innovation
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Search in the age of AI: Insights from industry leaders at ILTACON25

Search in the age of AI: Insights from industry leaders at ILTACON25

“Everything starts with search. It used to be about finding a needle in a haystack. You want to find a precedent, something you’ve worked on, but it can be tough
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LexisNexis: A deep dive into the Protégé General AI launch and alliance with Harvey

LexisNexis: A deep dive into the Protégé General AI launch and alliance with Harvey

We speak with CEO Sean Fitzpatrick; EVP and chief technology officer Jeff Reihl; and vice president of product management, Serena Wellen about the latest updates from LexisNexis, plus bring you
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Intapp’s company briefing: New Intapp Time launch and cloud updates 

Intapp’s company briefing: New Intapp Time launch and cloud updates 

Intapp’s company briefing at ILTACON 2025 last week homed in on three areas of note: the company’s ability to support and leverage AI across the entire lifecycle of a law
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ILTACON 2025: iManage implements Model Context Protocol support + product updates – Interview

ILTACON 2025: iManage implements Model Context Protocol support + product updates – Interview

iManage at ILTACON unveiled new AI capabilities, including implementing Model Context Protocol (MCP) support. MCP is an open standard designed to help large language models connect to external tools and
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ILTACON 25: Elite says SaaS subscription usage up 75% and shares latest product updates

ILTACON 25: Elite says SaaS subscription usage up 75% and shares latest product updates

Elite today (12 August) announced that demand for cloud migration rose sharply in 2025, with a 75% increase in SaaS subscription usage. Momentum for Elite’s invoice management solution, Elite Payments
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Latham & Watkins to roll out Harvey globally

Latham & Watkins to roll out Harvey globally

Latham & Watkins has signed an enterprise license for a firmwide rollout of the Harvey platform and its full suite of generative AI solutions following an evaluation.  The large-scale deployment
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Exclusive: Laurel secures investment from Workday Ventures

Exclusive: Laurel secures investment from Workday Ventures

Laurel has received strategic investment from Workday Ventures, we can reveal, in a major win for the AI-powered time capture company. As part of Workday Ventures’ investment, Laurel will become
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OpenAI Launches GPT-5: Some initial legal benchmarking results & thoughts

OpenAI Launches GPT-5: Some initial legal benchmarking results & thoughts

If there was a dip in productivity in the legal tech world this week it may be because everyone was a) getting ready for ILTACON and b) busy testing and
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Breaking news: Aderant to acquire HerculesAI’s legal technology assets

Breaking news: Aderant to acquire HerculesAI’s legal technology assets

Aderant has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the legal technology assets of HerculesAI, formerly Zero Systems, including its AI-driven time capture, email management and compliance tools Apollo, Athena, and Verify.   HerculesAI’s founder
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Epiq announces eight new high profile members of Epiq AI Labs

Epiq announces eight new high profile members of Epiq AI Labs

Epiq today (6 August) announced eight high profile new members of Epiq AI Labs, which is a community of legal and AI researchers, engineers, academics, and industry experts brought together
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August, Blue J and Afriwise grow through raises or acquisition 

August, Blue J and Afriwise grow through raises or acquisition 

August, an AI assistant platform built for midsize law firms, has raised $7m; Blue J, an online natural language tax research platform, has raised $122m in a Series D funding;
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Descrybe added to the National Society for Legal Tech curriculum, replacing Casetext 

Descrybe added to the National Society for Legal Tech curriculum, replacing Casetext 

AI legal research startup Descrybe has been added to the National Society for Legal Technology’s (NSLT) Legal Research Technology curriculum – a globally adopted program used by more than 350
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Thomson Reuters launches CoCounsel Legal with agentic AI and deep research capabilities

Thomson Reuters launches CoCounsel Legal with agentic AI and deep research capabilities

Thomson Reuters today (5 August) announced the launch of CoCounsel Legal, featuring deep research and agentic guided workflows. What’s different to Thomson Reuters’ previous CoCounsel launches is that this is
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Mishcon adopts Legora firmwide after successful pilot

Mishcon adopts Legora firmwide after successful pilot

Following a three-month pilot, Mishcon de Reya is now adopting Legora, which will be made available to fee earners across all practice areas at the firm. The trial period is
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