Artificial Lawyer reported on June 30 that Spellbook has launched Autonomous Contract Management, describing a workflow that can ingest contracts from channels such as email, Slack, and Salesforce, triage and redline against standards, and route work before a lawyer opens the file. The significance is that Spellbook is no longer positioning around contract drafting or review alone; it is moving in
OpenAI formally entered the legal vertical by hiring Jason Boehmig — co-founder and former CEO of Ironclad, one of the most widely deployed contract lifecycle management platforms in the market — to lead product for its legal division. The move, first reported by Artificial Lawyer on May 18 and confirmed operationally by June 2, follows Anthropic's launch of Claude for Legal and Microsoft's Legal