The compounding effect of in-house AI adoption data published across Q1 and Q2 2026 reached a strategic inflection point this week. The FTI Consulting/Relativity 2026 General Counsel Report — surveying 224 GCs and CLOs at organizations with $100M-plus in revenue and 1,000-plus employees — found that 87% of in-house legal teams now use generative AI, up from 44% a year earlier, and that 64% of in-h
BARBRI, the legal education company best known for bar exam preparation, acquired Lega on or around June 22–23 — the AI startup that launched in 2023 focused on LLM governance but had evolved into experiential AI training for legal professionals. Lega's platform delivers hands-on AI workshops, simulations, hackathons, and labs for law firms and law schools, with prior deployments at AmLaw 100 firm
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8am launched two new AI capabilities for MyCase: an OCR-powered Discovery Assistant that makes scanned physical documents searchable within the case management environment, and an upgraded Case Assistant that surfaces and synthesizes communications across a matter. Both capabilities target the small and mid-size firm segment that has historically lacked the document intelligence infrastructure ava
Kirkland & Ellis and Palantir Technologies announced a proprietary enterprise platform designed to transform private equity fundraising — the first operational product from Kirkland's $500 million multi-year AI investment program. Built on Palantir's Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP), the fund formation engine centralizes institutional knowledge across Kirkland's 1,000-attorney Investment Fun
Filevine launched the Legal Operating Intelligence System (LOIS) Console on June 2, framing it as the first legal AI that moves from reading matters to actively working on them. Unlike legal AI tools that accelerate a single lawyer on a single task, LOIS Console deploys AI agents across every matter in the firm, writing results directly back into the firm's system of record — setting tasks, moving