Legal IT Insider reported on June 26 that Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer has built a proprietary "system of intelligence" with Acora and Microsoft, embedding firm-contextual AI into workflows on Microsoft Azure and Foundry and governing it through Microsoft Purview. That matters because it shows a large global firm investing in owned context and governance architecture, not just plugging lawyers i
Legora announced on July 1 that Simmons & Simmons has partnered to deploy its platform across the firm, while Simmons' own results release described the move as part of a broader AI toolkit alongside Percy, Copilot, and autonomous agents already operating inside the firm. The market signal is that sophisticated law firms are not selecting a single "winner" platform; they are assembling layered sta
Legal IT Insider's coverage of RSGI's second Harvey report, published June 17, showed that 68% of respondents are already deploying Harvey-based agents, 89% of law firms say they can take on more work because of Harvey, and many respondents now frame Harvey as foundational infrastructure rather than a simple productivity tool. Even allowing for the fact that Harvey commissioned the report, the pat