LexisNexis opened its Customer Innovation Lab in New York City (August 4, LawNext), a physical space where legal professionals, LexisNexis engineers, and AI technology partners — including OpenAI and Amazon Web Services — work side by side to design, prototype, and test new legal AI capabilities. Prototypes are tested on the same day they are built; those clearing quality, accuracy, and security s
LinkedIn commentary (August 1, reporting Willkie's announcement) confirmed that Willkie Farr & Gallagher has gone firmwide on ChatGPT Enterprise — OpenAI's first major Am Law 100 law firm deal that can be publicly confirmed since OpenAI stood up a legal vertical. Willkie is extending the deployment into Codex inside Willkie Works, its own AI and innovation organisation. The same week: Debevoise &
Willkie announced on July 22 a collaboration with OpenAI that accelerates development across its five proprietary Wendell platforms: Wendell Intelligence (enterprise AI interface); Wendell Financial Insights (matter intelligence and financial operations); Wendell Horizon (attorney professional development); Wendell Private Funds Secondaries Platform; and Wendell Class Action Claimant Platform. The
Thomson Reuters' 2026 AI in Professional Services Report found 41% of law firms now report active generative AI use (up from 28% in 2025), yet only 22% have a visible AI strategy in place. The TR analysis identifies the root cause of AI implementation failure consistently as strategic, not technological: firms buy tools, run pilots, and watch adoption plateau when AI is treated as a technology dec
Clark Hill announced on July 21 a full-firm expansion of its AI platform through a Thomson Reuters enterprise agreement covering Next Gen CoCounsel, Westlaw Advantage, and Practical Law for every Clark Hill attorney — building on two years of firm-wide AI integration work that included planning, evaluation, pilot programs, governance development, and attorney training, and an existing Microsoft Co
Harvey announced the opening of a Chicago office on July 14, citing Chicago as "home to one of the country's most important legal markets" and referencing existing relationships with DLA Piper, Dentons US, Foley & Lardner, Faegre Drinker, Hinshaw & Culbertson, Katten Muchin Rosenman, Mayer Brown, and Winston & Strawn — as well as iManage integration, a Chicago Cubs partnership, and a law school pr
Harvey announced a strategic partnership with Lumio — a legal market strategy, pricing, and commercial growth consultancy — to develop a holistic economic model for measuring how AI affects law firm value creation, competition, and growth. The partnership will publish a series of perspectives examining AI's real economic impact on law firms across talent, service delivery, client demand, pricing,
Kerry Guaragno of Group Gordon, writing in Reuters on July 1, identified a critical gap in how law firms are approaching their AI investments: the communication strategy. Firms are making significant AI platform investments but have not built the messaging infrastructure to explain pricing implications, data handling practices, or error protocols to clients and staff. The key client concerns ident
A Forbes analysis by Joseph Andrew published June 29 examines the existential question facing point-solution legal tech vendors: as Anthropic, Microsoft, Google, and the major legal data incumbents (Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis) integrate Harvey and other AI layers directly into their platforms, the addressable market for standalone legal tech tools is compressing. The Marks Baughan analysis publis
Harvey closed a $200M funding round co-led by GIC and Sequoia at an $11B valuation — making it the most valued legal-specific AI company globally. The capital will fund expansion of AI agents and legal engineering teams; Harvey has opened in Dublin and plans Paris imminently, expanding to 14 global locations. Concurrent with the raise, Slaughter and May deployed Harvey firm-wide across M&A, due di