LawNext's Q2 legal tech advertising report (July 28) documented that Q1 2026's sharp increase in legal tech ad spend was largely seasonal, and Q2 reverted toward long-term norms — but with concentration in three categories: AI-native legal tools, governance/compliance workflows, and matter management. The pattern is consistent with enterprise software procurement cycles: Q1 is historically the hig
CasePoint launched an MCP Server (July 31) enabling legal and government AI workflows to connect directly to CasePoint's document review and eDiscovery data through the MCP standard — making CasePoint case data, review queues, and document collections accessible to AI agents without custom API integrations. The release follows iManage's MCP Server announcement and Clio's Perplexity MCP connector (
The Microsoft CELA announcement is more than a vendor win for Harvey — it is the clearest data point yet on what enterprise-scale in-house AI adoption looks like. A 2,000-person legal and compliance team operating globally has selected a single specialized AI platform, integrated into its existing productivity infrastructure (Microsoft 365), running on its own cloud (Azure), with data that stays i
Relativity announced a new pricing model eliminating per-seat/user fees (July 23). The move responds directly to the AI-driven compression of human effort in document review and eDiscovery — as AI automates work that previously required individual human reviewers, per-seat pricing becomes increasingly disconnected from the value delivered. The shift to usage-based or outcome-based pricing in eDisc
Harvey shipped its broadest platform update of 2026 across July 8–17, centered on three capabilities: agentic workflows, audio transcription, and model expansion. The Thread Experience update (July 15) enables Harvey to plan complex multi-step requests before running them, run multiple tasks in parallel with a live Progress Tracker, check in at ambiguous decision points rather than guess, and send
Thomson Reuters stock rose 5% during the week on a combination of AI adoption signals and its Singapore press release "AI is ready but firms are not," which documented the AI impact gap: 91% of law firms report falling short of their AI ambitions, and 32% of clients report reconsidering relationships with firms that lag on AI. Thomson Reuters confirmed it is building its own large language model t
Harvey and Lumio — a legal market strategy and pricing consultancy — announced a strategic partnership on July 10 to develop a comprehensive economic model for understanding how AI affects law firm value creation, competitive positioning, and growth. The collaboration will produce a series of published perspectives examining AI's impact across talent, service delivery, client demand, pricing, grow