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OpenAI rival Anthropic raises $13bn Series F with $183bn valuation – Your legal sector take

OpenAI rival Anthropic raises $13bn Series F with $183bn valuation – Your legal sector take

Anthropic announced on 2 September that it has completed a Series F fundraising of $13bn led by ICONIQ, with the financing valuing Anthropic at $183bn – three times its valuation
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LexisNexis report: Over 60% of UK lawyers now ‘use GenAI’, but law firm culture slows progress 

LexisNexis report: Over 60% of UK lawyers now ‘use GenAI’, but law firm culture slows progress 

Sixty-one percent of lawyers say they are now using generative AI in their work, according to a new report out today (2 September) from LexisNexis, but two-thirds say slow organisational
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Juro announces a partnership and MCP integration with Wordsmith, with more to come 

Juro announces a partnership and MCP integration with Wordsmith, with more to come 

Contract lifecycle management provider Juro announced today (28 August) that it has signed a partnership with contract review and AI agent startup Wordsmith. Through the collaboration, Juro’s 550+ clients will gain access
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Beyond the billable hour: Goodwin’s roadmap to redefine client value

Beyond the billable hour: Goodwin’s roadmap to redefine client value

“I didn’t necessarily see myself coming back to a law firm and there aren’t many that I would have come back to, but this is a role that doesn’t exist
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Start-up Corner: Theo Ai, for litigation outcome prediction

Start-up Corner: Theo Ai, for litigation outcome prediction

California-founded start-up Theo Ai says it is creating the world’s most accurate legal prediction engine to forecast the outcome of legal disputes. Theo Ai is Legal IT Insider’s latest Start-up
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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: Syncly hires James Connor as SVP of global sales & launches first product

Exclusive: Syncly hires James Connor as SVP of global sales & launches first product

James Connor has joined data synchronisation and management platform Syncly as its new SVP of global sales & partnerships, joining from Opus 2, where he was VP of sales for
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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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Litera makes strategic investment in AI CRM startup Postilize

Litera makes strategic investment in AI CRM startup Postilize

Litera today (7 August) announced a strategic investment in Postilize and the launch of Foundation Proactive, Powered by Postilize, providing Litera customers with an experience-based relationship management solution drawing on
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