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November 202624 moves
Clark Hill
Clark Hill signs a Thomson Reuters enterprise agreement for firmwide access to CoCounsel, Westlaw Advantage and Practical Law
Nov 9, 2026Clark Hill has signed an enterprise agreement with Thomson Reuters to extend advanced legal AI access to every attorney, covering Next Gen CoCounsel, Westlaw Advantage and Practical Law. The firm says the agreement follows more than two years of planning, pilots, governance development and attorney training, and sits alongside Microsoft Copilot for attorneys and staff. It frames the move as governance and education first, procurement second.
Product AdoptionGenAI AssistantLegal ResearchAddleshaw Goddard
Addleshaw Goddard selects Harvey for all 3,400+ lawyers and business services staff from January, with a product co-development programme and quarterly client sessions
Nov 9, 2026Addleshaw Goddard will give Harvey to its entire workforce of more than 3,400 lawyers and business services professionals across Europe, the Middle East and Asia from January, after a three-month assessment led by its 80-person Innovation Group in which 400 people tested leading platforms on real tasks. The firm will co-develop capabilities with Harvey's product and engineering teams, with matter orchestration and complex litigation named as priorities, and will convene quarterly sessions with selected clients. It is the firm's most significant technology transformation, and its self-built AGPT tool continues.
Product AdoptionGenAI AssistantAgentic & WorkflowHarvey and Jus Mundi partner to put Jus AI arbitration and international-law research inside Harvey's Assistant, Agents, Vault and Workflows
Nov 7, 2026Jus Mundi's specialised agent, Jus AI, is being integrated into Harvey's Assistant, Agents, Vault and Workflows so international arbitration and cross-border disputes teams get citation-backed research in the same place they review case files. A practitioner can test a client's position against awards, treaty practice and institutional rules, then compare it with the record in a Harvey Vault.
PartnershipLegal ResearchAgentic & WorkflowLinklaters
Linklaters describes an Applied Intelligence team of data scientists and lawyers, formed in 2026, building bespoke AI for client matters
Nov 7, 2026In a firm interview, Linklaters' Tom Quoroll describes an Applied Intelligence team, co-founded in 2026, that pairs data scientists and lawyers to build bespoke AI for client matters. The firm describes itself as platform-agnostic with AI lawyers embedded in practices, and argues operating-model and talent redesign matters more than adding tools. No figures are given.
Internal BuildAgentic & WorkflowTraining & TalentWolters Kluwer ELM launches a TyMetrix 360 MCP server so legal teams can run invoice and matter workflows from an AI assistant
Nov 6, 2026Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions has released an MCP server for TyMetrix 360 that lets users run the invoice and matter workflow from an AI assistant, including approving or adjusting line items and creating matters, under existing permissions.
OtherSpend ManagementAgentic & WorkflowHarvey launches a litigation capability built on a fact graph that extracts facts from case documents, flags inconsistencies and drafts chronologies and deposition outlines
Nov 6, 2026Harvey has launched a capability for lawsuits and internal investigations built on its fact graph. It reads large volumes of case documents, extracts relevant facts, flags inconsistencies and maintains a shared record that updates as new material arrives, and Harvey agents draft chronologies, deposition outlines and briefs from that record.
OthereDiscovery & LitigationAgentic & WorkflowAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Akin launches 'Living Fund File', a funds-practice knowledge product that preserves and connects knowledge across matters, with client collaborations
Nov 6, 2026Akin and its Funds Frontier Lab have launched Living Fund File, designed around the lifecycle of a fund so knowledge is preserved and connected across matters and over time. It combines practice-specific workflows, market intelligence capabilities and client collaborations already in use or under development.
Internal BuildKnowledge ManagementAgentic & WorkflowCommercial Bank of Dubai selects Harvey for its in-house legal team after a third-party risk assessment
Nov 6, 2026Commercial Bank of Dubai has selected Harvey for its in-house legal team across capital markets, investment, regulatory and commercial work. Lawyers will be able to build their own agents, and the deployment cleared the bank's third-party risk assessment. No headcount or rollout scale is given.
Vendor SelectionGenAI AssistantAgentic & WorkflowAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Akin scales NetDocuments ndMAX from a 31-user pilot to more than 1,000 lawyers and wins the vendor's Innovation Champion award
Nov 5, 2026At NetDocuments' Inspire conference in October, Akin described taking ndMAX from a 31-user pilot to more than 1,000 lawyers, plus a funds-practice project using auto-profiling and PatternBuilder apps. The firm won NetDocuments' Innovation Champion award. A CCB Journal piece reported the session on 5 November.
Product AdoptionKnowledge ManagementInfrastructure & PlatformDickson Minto
Dickson Minto rolls out Litera's Lito, integrated with iManage, Outlook and Word, with over half of its roughly 200 lawyers already using it
Nov 5, 2026Edinburgh firm Dickson Minto has rolled out Litera's Lito AI assistant, connected to iManage, Outlook and Word, growing from a test team to use by over half the firm within weeks. The firm is about 200 lawyers. Litera's case study reports a partner saying an SPA summary dropped from upwards of four hours to one.
Product AdoptionGenAI AssistantA&O Shearman
A&O Shearman commits USD 1.1bn over five years to AI, with every practice investing at least 3% of its time building specialist tools
Nov 5, 2026On 5 November 2026 A&O Shearman announced a five-year, USD 1.1bn AI commitment, most of it from each practice spending at least 3% of its time building specialist AI tools for its area of law. The firm says ContractMatrix client uptake rose ninefold in 12 months and that in September 96% of partners and 93% of lawyers used its AI tools (558,000+ activities). It expects the billable hour to lose importance, with fixed-fee income up about 15% in two years. Bloomberg Law notes it exceeds Kirkland's $500m plan.
InvestmentAgentic & WorkflowTraining & TalentFieldfisher
Fieldfisher deploys Legora firm-wide to about 1,400 lawyers and staff after a six-week, 137-user pilot
Nov 5, 2026On 5 November 2026 Fieldfisher announced a firm-wide Legora deployment to around 1,400 lawyers and business services staff, after a six-week pilot with 137 users in the UK and Europe. The rollout is led by the AI hub at Fieldfisher X (Berlin) with the firm's AI Board; Legora's legal engineers will help turn firm know-how into shared workflows and Skills, with role-based training. The firm says it will keep investing in its own prompts, playbooks and client-facing products.
Product AdoptionGenAI AssistantAgentic & WorkflowA&O Shearman
A&O Shearman commits USD 1.1bn over five years to AI, with every practice investing at least 3% of its time in specialist AI tools
Nov 5, 2026A&O Shearman announced a five-year, USD 1.1bn commitment that shifts its AI strategy from firmwide tools to practice-specific AI modules built by each practice. The firm says AI delivers more client value when embedded in specific practice and sector expertise, and ties the plan to how it trains its people. It also says ContractMatrix is being delivered to clients, often under novel pricing structures.
InvestmentAgentic & WorkflowTraining & TalentFieldfisher
Fieldfisher rolls out Legora firmwide to about 1,400 lawyers and staff after a six-week, 137-user pilot
Nov 5, 2026Fieldfisher is deploying Legora across the firm after a six-week pilot with 137 users in its UK and wider European offices. The rollout is led by the firm's AI hub at Fieldfisher X in Berlin with its AI board, and focuses on practice-specific use cases, role-based training and shared workflows and Skills any office can reuse. The firm says it will keep building its own prompts, playbooks and client-facing legal products alongside the vendor platform.
Product AdoptionInfrastructure & PlatformAgentic & WorkflowWongPartnership
WongPartnership selects August to build custom AI tools and training for fee earners and non-fee earners across the firm
Nov 4, 2026Singapore's WongPartnership named August a strategic AI partner to bring configurable agents and workflows, plus training, to the whole organisation. It says it is the first major Singapore firm to partner with August, adding to a stack that already includes Harvey and a Thomson Reuters CoCounsel pilot. The firm frames the move as going beyond adoption to AI built around how its lawyers work.
PartnershipInfrastructure & PlatformTraining & TalentSiemens Energy Canada's GC runs outside counsel's memos through AI and says it is already catching errors
Nov 4, 2026General counsel Dan Dagan says his team has moved through awareness and individual adoption and is now standardizing AI practice across the team. He does not send anything important out without running it through AI first, and says AI has identified errors in memos from outside firms. He predicts a negligence case against a lawyer for not checking with AI within years.
Product AdoptionGenAI AssistantOutside Counsel ManagementLopezmarqués
Lopezmarqués adopts Harvey across litigation and arbitration, commercial and company law, and white-collar practices, grounded in its own knowledge bases
Nov 4, 2026On 4 November 2026 Harvey announced that Spanish firm Lopezmarqués has adopted Harvey in three practices to review large volumes of documentary evidence, reconstruct chronologies, build on prior work and precedents, and support research within selected internal knowledge bases. Managing Partner Juan José López Marqués says working from the firm's own case history keeps traceability and confidentiality. No seat counts or terms disclosed.
Product AdoptionGenAI AssistantKnowledge ManagementSkadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Thomson Reuters names Skadden its first strategic AI design partner, to build firm-controlled applications on Thomson LLM behind the firm's firewall
Nov 3, 2026On its Q3 call, Thomson Reuters CEO Steve Hasker announced a strategic AI design partnership with Skadden to develop applications the firm controls on Thomson LLM, TR's in-house legal model. Hasker described it as a path to 'sovereign AI solutions': a version of the Thomson model family behind a firm's firewall, with applications built by practice and jurisdiction. He said Skadden is first and that the licensing opportunity could extend to other large firms.
PartnershipInfrastructure & PlatformLegal ResearchLitera's legal team builds LEA, a Copilot agent in Teams connected to LawVu that informs, triages and routes legal requests but never advises
Nov 3, 2026Litera's Senior Deputy General Counsel Vivek Mali built LEA in Microsoft Copilot as legal's single front door, connected to LawVu through an MCP. LEA opens matters, checks status and finds executed contracts but is barred from giving legal advice; it opens a matter for human review when it hits the edge of its knowledge. A shared-admin-account permissions mistake put it 'in the penalty box' for about six weeks until IT security was brought in, after which other departments asked for agents and IT built a parent orchestration agent.
Internal BuildAgentic & WorkflowCompliance & RegulatoryABB's Legal & Integrity Transformation Program sets a contract-data-first, governance-second path for 450+ lawyers toward an 'AI first, Legal always' model
Nov 3, 2026Manuel Morasch, VP Legal and leader of ABB's Legal & Integrity Transformation Program, describes three group-level pillars: a single cross-divisional contract repository, a shared risk and playbook framework, and an AI governance policy. ABB sequences the work in four phases (foundation, pilots, scale and optimize, continuous improvement) and requires that vendor models do not train on ABB data without explicit consent. Divisions keep autonomy over tool choice within those guardrails.
Legal Ops TransformationKnowledge ManagementCompliance & RegulatoryCozen O'Connor
Cozen O'Connor selects Harvey for a firmwide implementation after a transactional and litigation pilot
Nov 3, 2026On 3 November 2026 Cozen O'Connor, a firm of over 1,000 attorneys, announced a firmwide Harvey implementation following a pilot across transactional and litigation work. During the pilot lawyers built custom agents with Harvey's team for real estate, corporate and private client workflows, and the firm says it will add tailored training, implementation and agent governance. No seat counts, timeline or pricing given.
Product AdoptionGenAI AssistantAgentic & WorkflowSpencer West
Spencer West selects Harvey for its international practice of 360+ partners across 25 jurisdictions after a pilot
Nov 3, 2026On 3 November 2026 Harvey announced that Spencer West, a partner-led international firm with more than 360 partners in 25 jurisdictions, selected Harvey after a pilot and evaluation of the legal AI market. Harvey is being rolled out across the international practice for research, drafting, contract analysis and document review. The announcement is a vendor blog post; no firm statement, seat counts or terms were read.
Product AdoptionGenAI AssistantLegal ResearchHusch Blackwell
Husch Blackwell pursues ISO 42001 certification for its AI management system, with firmwide tools including CoCounsel, Legora and Copilot and a Transformation Office
Nov 2, 2026Office Managing Partner Myers Dill told Virginia Lawyers Weekly that Husch Blackwell runs several AI tools firmwide (Thomson Reuters CoCounsel, Westlaw Precision and Legora for research and drafting; Copilot for productivity), reviews each product through a proprietary SAFER framework plus information security, procurement and general counsel review, and is pursuing ISO 42001 certification, anticipated in early 2027. A Transformation Office set up earlier this year works with clients on delivery.
Policy / GovernanceCompliance & RegulatoryInfrastructure & PlatformWeil, Gotshal & Manges
Scissero submits an expression of interest in Weil Gotshal's DealVision 360, IP and data, and says it is in talks with Weil lawyers
Nov 2, 2026Scissero, an AI-enabled law firm, told Artificial Lawyer it has formally submitted an expression of interest in acquiring technology, IP and data assets from Weil, including the DealVision 360 platform, knowledge-management systems and transactional data. It says it is in discussions with several Weil lawyers and with private equity firms about backing a transactional practice, and notes client-confidential material would need separate safeguards and consents.
OtherOther
October 202654 moves
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
AI-native firm Crosby bids for Weil Gotshal's brand, trademark and internal data, and is working to hire its lawyers, as Weil heads toward dissolution
Oct 30, 2026Crosby, a two-year-old AI-first law firm, has bid for some Weil Gotshal assets (trademark, brand and unspecified internal data) and is separately working to hire some of Weil's roughly 1,200 lawyers, per TechCrunch, which says it confirmed the bid after The Information first reported it. Weil told the New York Times it is preparing to vote on dissolution. For AI-native firms, a Weil bid tests whether brand, data and talent can be bought out of a failed incumbent.
OtherOtherBakerHostetler
BakerHostetler's Practice Intelligence Center, a unified data platform across 1.1M matters and 80M narratives, wins the KM&I LexPrize
Oct 30, 2026BakerHostetler says its Practice Intelligence Center (PIC) won the KM&I LexPrize Innovation Award, chosen by conference attendees on Oct 21, 2026. The firm calls PIC a milestone in its AI strategy: a single pane of glass for attorneys across 1.1 million matters, 80 million narratives and more than 20 million docket entries. Presented by CIO Katherine Lowry with two practice-innovation attorneys.
Internal BuildKnowledge ManagementInfrastructure & PlatformHarvey acquires Aida, its fifth acquisition of 2026, adding search and machine-learning engineers to make firm knowledge across documents and systems usable by its AI
Oct 30, 2026Harvey has acquired Aida, an AI-native sales execution platform founded by Piyush Prahladka (a Glean co-founder) and Atish Das Sarma. The founders and their search and machine-learning engineers join Harvey's product and engineering division. Harvey says the deal will help law firms use knowledge stored across documents and internal systems. Nonbillable counts it as Harvey's fifth acquisition this year.
InvestmentInfrastructure & PlatformKnowledge ManagementBass Berry & Sims
Bass, Berry & Sims puts summer associates in a nine-week AI Lab that produced prototypes now used in client work
Oct 29, 2026Bass, Berry & Sims ran a nine-week AI Lab in which summer associates interviewed attorneys to find workflow problems and then designed AI solutions. A Law.com account says the prototypes are now used in client work. The piece reads as a firm-side account; authorship was not confirmed.
Pilot / TrialTraining & TalentMinterEllison
Harvey hires MinterEllison's Chief Digital and AI Officer Gary Adler as Legal Innovation Partner, leading APAC legal innovation
Oct 29, 2026Gary Adler, who spent more than 11 years at MinterEllison and close to nine as its Chief Digital and AI Officer, joins Harvey as Legal Innovation Partner, leading legal innovation for APAC from Melbourne. Point Blank notes Minters hired its first Chief AI Officer from outside only months earlier, so the move shifts a senior firm-side AI leader to a vendor.
Key HireTraining & TalentLegora launches a legal research capability built on Qura technology, saying its research agent is 40% faster
Oct 29, 2026Legora launched a new legal research capability built on technology from Qura, which it acquired in April. The system maps relationships between legal sources so its AI can identify overturned cases and changed laws. Legora says the technology makes its research agent 40% faster. Nonbillable frames it as an acquisition turning into product.
OtherLegal ResearchAgentic & WorkflowClayton Utz expands Harvey across disputes, M&A and property, with Harvey saying a junior lawyer found a pivotal answer in Harvey Vaults in about 40 seconds
Oct 29, 2026A Harvey customer story describes Clayton Utz using Harvey agents, Vaults and Playbooks in disputes, corporate M&A and property work: a junior lawyer found a pivotal answer in a Queensland Supreme Court tax dispute via Vaults in about 40 seconds, long-horizon agents update IT-contract base documents, and a graduate lawyer built a five-stage due diligence agent. Spread is described as several workflows daily across multiple teams.
Product AdoptionGenAI AssistantAgentic & WorkflowERGO NEXT builds 'Ask Vinny', a Slack AI legal intake assistant, after legal requests rose three- to fourfold with a flat 14-person team
Oct 28, 2026Described by Head of Legal Operations Nadia Louis-Hermez in an Oct 28 In-House Connect webinar: ERGO NEXT's legal requests rose an estimated three to four times after its Munich Re acquisition while the 14-person team stayed flat. The team is rolling out 'Ask Vinny', a Slack assistant that answers questions from approved sources, creates and routes tickets, and identifies itself as a bot. The rollout was still underway and not yet company-wide, and the benefits described come from early testing.
Legal Ops TransformationAgentic & WorkflowKnowledge ManagementDavis Wright Tremaine
Davis Wright Tremaine launches a six-session peer-learning AI pilot for about 70 lawyers with coaching platform Keep Company
Oct 28, 2026DWT's pilot brings about 70 participants of varying experience from across practice groups and offices into cohorts of eight to ten for six virtual sessions led by external coaches, running late October through year-end. The curriculum covers approaching AI with an inventive mindset, leading change internally, experimentation and what must remain human in practice.
Pilot / TrialTraining & TalentEverlaw introduces Omni, an agentic investigation suite with Case Memory, and Workflows for review automation
Oct 28, 2026Announced at Everlaw Summit, Omni adds an agent that orchestrates Everlaw features from plain-language requests and Case Memory, a fact library built from complaints and depositions that grows as evidence arrives. Workflows lets review managers design and oversee multi-stage document reviews with human checkpoints. Bracewell LLP and other Am Law firms are in early access; Omni is expected to be generally available in early 2027 as a premium product, Workflows in November at no extra cost.
OthereDiscovery & LitigationAgentic & WorkflowLatham & Watkins
Latham & Watkins and Harvey co-develop a fund-formation product that Harvey will sell to other firms, with no revenue share for Latham
Oct 27, 2026Latham's Investment Funds Practice and Harvey's product and engineering teams will build an AI-enabled fund formation solution covering LPAs, side letters, subscription documents and comment memos. Latham's CIO describes it as a separate product within the Harvey suite combining agents, project management, document analysis and process automation. Latham is shaping a product its competitors will be able to buy, which is a different bet from keeping the tool proprietary.
PartnershipAgentic & WorkflowContract Review & DraftingPlains All American's law VP wants outside counsel to disclose AI use and trains firms on deal-specific provisions; guideline wording still in progress
Oct 27, 2026At Mitratech Interact 2026, Plains' vice president of law for M&A said she wants to know when outside counsel uses AI and that her lawyers train outside counsel on deal-specific provisions, though the outside counsel guideline language is still a work in progress. Plains uses Harvey to build tables from data-room documents. On the same panel a Holland & Knight partner described a 30-hour AI comparison of 40 credit agreements whose marginal benefit she judged not worth the cost, and the moderator cited an AdvanceLaw survey of a couple dozen general counsel in which nearly nine in ten expected AI savings on bills.
Outside Counsel RequirementOutside Counsel ManagementPolicy / GovernanceJones Day
Jones Day becomes a founding partner of Draftwise's Ontonomi legal ontology, deploying it first in M&A and private equity
Oct 27, 2026Jones Day and Draftwise will deploy Ontonomi, Draftwise's legal ontology offering, across multiple practice areas, starting with M&A and private equity. The aim is to structure and connect the firm's precedents, positions and experience so lawyers and associates can draw on senior judgment. Ropes & Gray was named a founding partner at the Sept 29 launch, so Ontonomi now has two of the largest US firms behind it.
PartnershipKnowledge ManagementInfrastructure & PlatformStoel Rives selects Legora as its firm-wide AI platform after a 100+ lawyer pilot and a formal security review
Oct 27, 2026Am Law 200 firm Stoel Rives (about 350 attorneys, ten offices) chose Legora firm-wide after a pilot that reached more than 100 lawyers across research, litigation and transactional groups. The firm's own AI, Privacy & Cybersecurity practice advises clients on vetting AI vendors, and it ran Legora through a formal security review before signing.
Product AdoptionGenAI AssistantLegal ResearchEfficio Consulting runs a 10-vendor RFP and invests in an AI tool for its legal team, alongside an in-house policy chatbot
Oct 26, 2026At a Law Gazette roundtable, Efficio's group general counsel described an RFP involving ten legal technology providers that ended in an investment in an AI tool for the legal team. She also runs 'Ask Elisabeth', a policy-and-playbook chatbot launched a couple of years ago, a Copilot Word add-on trial, and a ChatGPT agent doing legislative horizon scanning across 15 countries. The chosen tool was not named.
Vendor SelectionGenAI AssistantClio unveils agentic Workflows, a Documents Pro DMS, an AI timekeeping beta and peer benchmarking at ClioCon, and acquires Page
Oct 26, 2026At ClioCon, Clio announced a reimagined platform where AI can run multi-step processes across Grow, Manage and Work, a full document management system (Documents Pro) including audio and video, an opt-in AI timekeeping beta that drafts matter-matched time entries, and aggregated de-identified benchmarking on utilization, realization and collections. BetaKit reports Clio also closed its ninth acquisition, Page, for government-relations horizon scanning.
OtherAgentic & WorkflowInfrastructure & PlatformKONE's legal director builds a Copilot-based contract-review agent named Connie with a third party
Oct 26, 2026KONE legal director Brenda Albert says the team tested many legal AI products over three to four years and chose Microsoft Copilot for its integration with Microsoft 365. She is building an agent, Connie, with a third party to apply uploaded playbooks, answer questions and review documents, with plans to connect it to Salesforce and DocuSign. Albert also argued at the same roundtable that cutting junior intake because of AI is shortsighted.
Internal BuildAgentic & WorkflowContract Review & DraftingBNY general counsel says AI is cutting contract review time for negotiated vendor contracts by about 75%
Oct 26, 2026BNY General Counsel Kevin McCarthy told Law.com Corporate Counsel that AI is already cutting the time the bank's legal department spends reviewing negotiated vendor contracts by about 75%. He says the larger shift is still ahead, with AI proficiency becoming a fundamental skill for lawyers, and argues legal leaders cannot sit on the sidelines.
Product AdoptionContract Review & DraftingLegal leaders from Fifth Third, Bayer and Progressive say they expect their outside counsel to use AI
Oct 23, 2026At a panel reported by Law360 on 23 October 2026, legal leaders from Fifth Third Bank, Bayer and Progressive Insurance said they expect the outside counsel they hire to use AI, as they discussed how the general counsel role is changing. A LawSnap summary adds that Liquid Death's general counsel requires her outside firm to use AI for routine work and first-pass research. These are stated expectations reported from a single panel, not contractual requirements or fee terms.
Outside Counsel RequirementOutside Counsel ManagementGA-Alliance selects Harvey for its 80-country network, starting in Italy and extending to 2,600+ professionals
Oct 23, 2026GA-Alliance, the international law firm network, will integrate Harvey first in Italy and then across the network it says covers 80 countries and more than 2,600 professionals. A joint team will run the partnership, coordinate the network implementation and align on shared growth strategies. Global managing partner Francesco Sciaudone frames the point as uniform speed, quality and consistency for clients on a single platform and a single standard, while the firm's professionals continue to supervise and validate AI-assisted work.
Product AdoptionGenAI AssistantGoodwin Procter
Goodwin launches 'Goodwin AI Governance': a free health check, readiness materials and an annual AI Decision Desk subscription
Oct 22, 2026Goodwin announced a three-part AI governance program for companies, boards and private equity sponsors: a complimentary Health Check with a Goodwin lawyer, Readiness governance materials, and an AI Decision Desk annual subscription with regulatory monitoring and policy-update prompts. The firm says it was built by its legal and AI product teams and that a wide range of clients already use it. It turns firm judgment into a subscription product sold on a recurring basis.
Internal BuildCompliance & RegulatoryCarnelutti Law Firm picks Legora after a pilot and will extend it to all of its professionals
Oct 22, 2026Italian firm Carnelutti (100+ professionals across Milan and Rome) has chosen Legora as its AI platform after a pilot in daily work and complex transactions. The platform is to be extended to all of the firm's professionals, with the aim of speeding document review, drafting and case-law research in a collaborative, agentic environment within confidentiality requirements.
Product AdoptionGenAI AssistantRepsol's legal team completes a mid-sized M&A transaction in-house with Harvey, where outside counsel quotes averaged €200,000
Oct 22, 2026Harvey's 22 October 2026 blog says the legal team at Repsol completed a mid-sized M&A transaction in-house using Harvey, for work that outside counsel quotes had averaged at €200,000. The post is a vendor case study of in-house teams using freed capacity to bring work in-house, alongside examples at Carrefour Spain and ASML.
InsourcingGenAI AssistantJones Day
Jones Day selects Legora as strategic AI partner, with firmwide access for 2,500+ lawyers over the coming months and a design-partner role on Legora's forthcoming legal research product
Oct 22, 2026On 22 October 2026 Jones Day and Legora announced a strategic AI partnership: lawyers in all 40 offices will gain access to Legora over the coming months, and the firm will act as design partner for Legora's forthcoming ontological legal research product. They will also run a structured learning and development program with Prof. Dan Hunter (King's College London), including collaboration with clients. The announcement is a rollout plan, not evidence that every lawyer has access today, and it follows a structured evaluation and is framed alongside Jones Day's own systems and knowledge infrastructure.
PartnershipGenAI AssistantLegal ResearchLittler Mendelson
Littler partners with Legora and Epiq to offer employers AI-enabled workforce transformation, drawing on its pilot of Legora across European offices
Oct 22, 2026On 22 October 2026 Littler, the largest employment and labor law practice for management, announced strategic partnerships with Legora and Epiq to help employers handle the legal, workforce and operational effects of AI-enabled workforce transformation. Littler leads on employment law and workforce governance, Legora on design and build of AI-enabled legal workflows, and Epiq on process redesign, data readiness, governance, privacy, implementation and training. Littler says the model is deliberately platform-agnostic, and notes it has run a detailed Legora pilot across its European offices.
PartnershipAgentic & WorkflowCompliance & RegulatoryLinklaters
Linklaters says 80% of its partners use Legora monthly a year after rollout, and reports a shift in how junior work is assigned
Oct 22, 2026Linklaters disclosed that 80% of its partnership uses Legora monthly, a year on from the firm's rollout, and said it is seeing a change in how junior lawyers are assigned work. Why it matters: a rare partner-level usage figure from a Magic Circle firm, paired with an early signal on workload allocation to juniors.
Product AdoptionGenAI AssistantLegora raises $550M Series E at $8.8B valuation, citing $200M+ ARR and in-house teams at 40%+ of Q3 new customers
Oct 21, 2026Legora announced a $550M Series E at an $8.8B post-money valuation, seven months after its prior round. Capital funds North American, European and APAC expansion and further build-out of its agentic operating system, Legora aOS, including agentic intake, horizon scanning and legal research. Why it matters: a second legal AI vendor now carries a valuation that funds a sustained direct-sales push into both law firms and in-house teams.
InvestmentAgentic & WorkflowInfrastructure & PlatformiManage connector goes live in Harvey's Connector Library, giving Harvey governed access to firm matter content via MCP
Oct 21, 2026iManage announced that its connector is available in Harvey's Connector Library, so joint customers can use documents, matters and work product stored in iManage inside Harvey, with research, drafting and analysis running on the firm's own knowledge. It uses the Model Context Protocol and, per iManage, existing governance and access controls remain intact. Why it matters: MCP is becoming the integration path between governed knowledge repositories and legal AI tools.
PartnershipKnowledge ManagementInfrastructure & PlatformCVS Health deploys Harvey across its Corporate Affairs functions following a pilot
Oct 21, 2026After a pilot, CVS Health is expanding Harvey access across Corporate Affairs to support legal, regulatory, policy, compliance, governance and operational workflows. The in-house legal team will use it for document review, legal and regulatory research, drafting and knowledge retrieval. Why it matters: another large corporate legal function standardising on a legal AI platform, with knowledge retrieval named as a core use.
Product AdoptionGenAI AssistantKnowledge ManagementFoley Hoag
Harvey publishes mid-sized firm adoption playbooks: Munck Wilson Mandala, Gray Reed (practitioner-led CIO) and Foley Hoag (94% adoption)
Oct 21, 2026Harvey's 'One Problem, Different Paths' series profiles three mid-sized firms. Munck Wilson Mandala built on in-house technical fluency and a client-permission AI policy; Gray Reed put a practising litigation partner in a Chief Innovation Officer role to lead practice-specific training and agent builds; Foley Hoag rolled out to lawyers and business services in under a month with mandatory ethics training, AI Ambassadors, office hours and a peer-learning cadence. Why it matters: concrete adoption mechanics (ownership, training, peer learning) from firms below the AmLaw 50.
Product AdoptionGenAI AssistantTraining & TalentAT&T and OpenAI build the next phase of LegalEdge: a company-wide legal knowledge layer and a natural-language intake 'front door'
Oct 21, 2026OpenAI's case study describes AT&T's plan to extend LegalEdge, its in-house AI legal team, with a knowledge layer connecting accumulated legal expertise to incoming work and a natural-language intake system that classifies and prioritises requests and surfaces precedent and recommended first steps. AT&T's general counsel says decision making stays with lawyers. Why it matters: a concrete in-house design for intake plus retrieval, from a client already reported to be cutting its outside firm roster.
Legal Ops TransformationKnowledge ManagementAgentic & WorkflowMewburn Ellis creates a Chief Technology Officer role for AI adoption and promotes IT director Andy Newland into it
Oct 21, 2026UK IP firm Mewburn Ellis created a CTO role, filled by 15-year IT director Andy Newland, responsible for technology strategy, AI adoption and digital transformation, separating strategic technology leadership from day-to-day IT operations. The move follows the firm's introduction of Microsoft Copilot, Solve Intelligence and Legora. Why it matters: mid-size IP boutiques are creating dedicated AI technology leadership roles.
Key HireOtherWeil, Gotshal & Manges
Weil launches a two-summer AI program putting selected 1Ls on its LASER AI engineering team, with return offers to the 2L class
Oct 21, 2026Weil will place a select group of first-year law students in a 10-week 1L summer role with its LASER (Lawyer Augmented Solutions Engineering and Research) team, where they learn Python, build a neural network and help develop legal software, then return in the 2028 2L summer class. Applications opened Oct 15; the first cohort joins in summer 2027. Why it matters: a recruiting and development model that treats AI literacy as an entry-level credential.
OtherTraining & TalentBell Gully
Bell Gully appoints partner Richard Massey as AI Lead and names a Knowledge Manager to drive AI implementation
Oct 20, 2026Bell Gully appointed corporate partner Richard Massey to a new AI Lead role and named Stephanie Colling, who leads its Library and Research team, as Knowledge Manager to drive AI implementation. The firm was the first large New Zealand firm to roll out Harvey, with mandatory training and policies.
Key HireTraining & TalentKnowledge ManagementWomble Bond Dickinson (UK)
Womble Bond Dickinson launches 'Womble AI Labs' under Chief AI and Technology Officer to build AI tools for firm and clients
Oct 20, 2026Womble Bond Dickinson launched Womble AI Labs, embedded in IT and led by Chief AI and Technology Officer Chad Ergun, to build AI solutions for the firm and its clients. It targets structured, repeatable tasks such as regulatory monitoring, document generation, contract review and early case assessment, and joins the firm's AI Champions network and AI Training Program.
Internal BuildAgentic & WorkflowTraining & TalentBitfury Group's three-lawyer legal team uses Harvey to draft transactions to about 80% before outside counsel review, per Harvey case study
Oct 19, 2026Harvey's customer story says Bitfury Group's three in-house lawyers now prepare transaction documents roughly 80% of the way to a final draft in Harvey for Word and engage outside counsel solely to review specific transactions, and run investment diligence through Harvey's Vault. Why it matters: a client describing outside counsel's role shrinking from drafting to review, and saying a firm's AI sophistication is part of how it selects counsel.
InsourcingGenAI AssistantDue DiligenceLegora and iManage deepen integration through the iManage MCP Server for governed content access inside Legora
Oct 16, 2026Legora and iManage announced a deeper integration through the iManage MCP Server, giving mutual customers additional ways to work with firm knowledge and governed iManage content directly within Legora. Why it matters: with the Harvey connector landing five days later, iManage is now MCP-connected to both leading legal AI platforms, which reduces lock-in risk for firms standardising on iManage.
PartnershipKnowledge ManagementInfrastructure & PlatformNautaDutilh
NautaDutilh launches Bluefield in-house AI build unit and hires an AI & Innovation Partner and Lead
Oct 16, 2026NautaDutilh is launching Bluefield, an in-house approach that puts lawyers and software engineers in the same teams to build tools around client work, running on the firm's own data inside its security and confidentiality standards. Elgar Weijtmans joins as AI & Innovation Partner and Niels de Jong as AI & Innovation Lead on 1 November. Bluefield sits alongside the third-party AI platforms already used across the firm.
Internal BuildInfrastructure & PlatformFenech & Fenech Advocates
Fenech & Fenech Advocates creates Chief Innovation and Technology Officer role with AI strategy and governance remit
Oct 16, 2026Fenech & Fenech Advocates and Fenlex appointed Antonio Ghio, a 25-year firm veteran and former head of its TMT practice, to a newly created partner-level Chief Innovation and Technology Officer role. The mandate covers innovation strategy, digital transformation, legal and internal service design, and the firm's AI strategy and governance.
Key HireOtherHogan Lovells
Hogan Lovells Cadwalader names Managing Partner for Legal Technology and AI and a Chief Transformation Officer, creates AI Board and Commercial Unit
Oct 16, 2026The firm appointed Paul Otto as Managing Partner, Legal Technology and AI, and Oliver Campbell as Chief Transformation Officer. A new AI Board will decide whether AI solutions are built internally or sourced externally and allocate resources. A separate Commercial Unit under Bill Ferreira will cover pricing, legal project management, pitching and client delivery, using AI to create long-term client value.
Key HireBilling & PricingOtherBrambles legal team consolidates global policies into a queryable agent, per Harvey FORUM Sydney
Oct 16, 2026Andrew Chivers, Regional General Counsel APAC at Brambles, described how his 24 lawyers across 60 countries brought the company's policies into an agent that colleagues can query, reducing document searching for repeated questions. He also said junior lawyers can be comfortable with AI yet still need training to challenge its answers.
Internal BuildKnowledge ManagementHogan Lovells
Hogan Lovells Cadwalader signs both Harvey and Legora under a firmwide AI strategy alongside in-house ELTEMATE tools
Oct 16, 2026On 16 October 2026 Hogan Lovells Cadwalader unveiled a firmwide AI strategy that pairs agreements with two rival platforms, Harvey and Legora, with proprietary tools built through its ELTEMATE unit. CEO Miguel Zaldivar said no single AI solution meets every need of a modern global law firm. A public two-vendor declaration is unusual among large firms and sets a reference point for how others explain their stack choices.
Vendor SelectionGenAI AssistantAgentic & WorkflowThe Star prepares litigation evidence in-house with AI before asking outside firms to quote the remaining work
Oct 16, 2026After its legal team downsized and lost its in-house litigator, The Star's General Counsel Georgette Apostolopoulos had her team use AI to prepare evidence for an anti-discrimination matter, then asked outside firms to price only the work that remained. The approach gave the department a way to manage outside counsel cost by scoping external work more narrowly.
InsourcingOutside Counsel ManagementSullivan & Cromwell
OpenAI introduces Astra for Law, a legal-specific AI foundation for law firms and legal tech vendors, with 26 partner plugins
Oct 15, 2026OpenAI introduced Astra for Law, pairing GPT-6 Astra with settings, tools and context tuned for professional legal work. API customers including Harvey and Legora will be able to build on it. It is offered first to select firms through Trusted Access in ChatGPT and Codex, with API access coming; 26 partner-built plugins include iManage, Intapp, DeepJudge and Thomson Reuters (HighQ, with a CoCounsel Legal connector previewed). The post names firm work with Sullivan & Cromwell (agreement analyser), Ropes & Gray (diligence verification) and Wachtell.
OtherInfrastructure & PlatformCox & Palmer
Cox & Palmer launches internal AI Framework built on six pillars of governance, policy, technology and security
Oct 15, 2026Atlantic Canadian firm Cox & Palmer launched an internal AI Framework covering mission, objectives, governance, policy and standards, technology, and compliance and security, aligned with ISO 27001. The firm is using AI for time entry, billing, workflows, contract drafting, document analysis and research, but is taking a measured approach to any use involving client information.
Policy / GovernanceCompliance & RegulatoryDrakopoulos
Drakopoulos adopts Harvey firmwide across all practice groups and offices after live-work pilot
Oct 15, 2026Athens-based Drakopoulos deployed Harvey to all lawyers across every practice group and office following a live-work pilot, for research, drafting, document review and due diligence. The firm cited output quality and vendor support as deciding factors.
Product AdoptionGenAI AssistantPaul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Paul, Weiss becomes sole Lead Firm Partner of Columbia Law School's AI initiative in five-year partnership
Oct 14, 2026Paul, Weiss signed a five-year partnership naming it sole Lead Firm Partner of AI @ CLS, Columbia Law School's generative AI initiative. It will support new curriculum including an AI orientation module, a scholar-in-residence and convenings of practitioners and policymakers. The firm says AI training is a core part of its talent development at all levels.
PartnershipTraining & TalentLoyens & Loeff
Loyens & Loeff selects Legora as legal AI partner under 'Driven by Expertise, Powered by AI' strategy
Oct 14, 2026Dutch law and tax firm Loyens & Loeff chose Legora after an extensive firmwide evaluation, as part of a 2026 strategy to embed AI in everyday legal and tax work while building AI fluency, governance and training.
Product AdoptionGenAI AssistantFreshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Freshfields partners discuss spinning out Freshfields Lab AI unit to outside investors or IPO, per FT-reported internal emails
Oct 14, 2026The FT, via leaked internal emails, reported senior Freshfields partners are exploring carving Freshfields Lab, the firm's in-house AI unit, into a separate entity open to external investors, with a possible IPO. Discussions were described as very early stage and the firm declined to comment. If it proceeds, it would be the most prominent law-firm AI spinout to date.
Spinout / New VentureInfrastructure & PlatformThomson Reuters brings next-gen CoCounsel Legal to Australia and Singapore, adds multinational research and ChatGPT Enterprise access via HighQ MCP
Oct 14, 2026Thomson Reuters launched a Multinational Profile for CoCounsel Legal covering 100+ jurisdictions, announced Australia (late October) and Singapore availability, and made HighQ reachable from ChatGPT Enterprise via MCP, previewing CoCounsel Legal inside ChatGPT.
PartnershipLegal ResearchInfrastructure & PlatformHarvey launches Intake, a front door for in-house legal requests routed to agents or lawyers
Oct 14, 2026Harvey launched Intake, which accepts requests from email, Slack, Jira and ServiceNow, routes them to approved agents or lawyers and returns the output to the requester; business users need no Harvey seat. Early-access design partners included in-house teams at Carvana, GE Aerospace and Dentsu.
OtherAgentic & WorkflowSquire Patton Boggs
Squire Patton Boggs selects Harvey for global rollout and becomes design partner on forthcoming Harvey launches
Oct 13, 2026Squire Patton Boggs selected Harvey as its legal AI platform and is rolling it out across its global network. The firm will act as a design partner on forthcoming Harvey product launches, so its lawyers help shape the platform. Scale and timing of the rollout are not stated.
Product AdoptionGenAI AssistantLegora launches Intake in Slack for in-house teams, a day before Harvey's identically named product
Oct 13, 2026Legora launched Legora Intake, initially in Slack, to triage and route legal requests and start workflows from playbooks and its Skills library; standard NDAs can complete without lawyer involvement. Teams, email and MCP connections are planned.
OtherAgentic & WorkflowGoodwin Procter
Goodwin names Microsoft Foundry its enterprise AI platform, builds 'Regina OS' legal operating system and rolls out Copilot with mandatory training
Oct 13, 2026Goodwin expanded its Microsoft relationship, naming Microsoft Foundry as the platform for all AI initiatives. Its proprietary Regina OS consolidates matter context, knowledge and AI; a 'Goodwin Builders' program pairs lawyers with technologists to redesign workflows; firmwide Copilot access comes with mandatory training. A rare combination of platform standardization, in-house build and training mandate at an Am Law firm.
PartnershipInfrastructure & PlatformAgentic & Workflow
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