Clio launched Clio Work in Canada on July 28, enabled by the Jurisage acquisition (June 2026) — a corpus of 470,000+ Canadian cases across 40+ courts, updated daily. This makes Clio Work jurisdictionally grounded in Canadian law, extending its existing coverage of the US, UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Simultaneously, Clio shipped four product updates: Clio for Word (legal AI
iManage announced the next evolution of its platform at ConnectLive 2026 with three categories of updates: (1) knowledge accessibility — iManage MCP Server (available for Insight+, enabling AI agents and LLMs to search and surface permission-aware context from governed iManage knowledge in a permission-bound and auditable way); Multi-Region Search (global unified search across jurisdictions); nati
LawNext reported (July 27) that General Legal — an AI-native law firm co-founded by Ryan Walker, former CTO of Casetext — has launched, targeting startups and growth-stage companies with commercial contracting and startup legal operations using AI-driven workflows and transparent pricing. The Casetext CTO origin is significant: Walker built product at one of the leading AI legal research companies
Clio compressed a full product cycle into seven days. On July 22: GPT-5.6 went live in Clio Work and Vincent (6% higher completed-answer quality, 6% more authorities identified, 3% fewer tokens vs. GPT-5.5); Vincent Skills launched, allowing firms to codify internal methods and standards as repeatable AI instructions with tiered permissions governance; Vincent Memory launched, carrying information
Microsoft's Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs (CELA) organization — approximately 2,000 legal and compliance professionals — announced July 23 that it has standardized on Harvey for global legal and compliance operations. Harvey is now available as an agent inside Microsoft 365 Copilot and a plugin inside Copilot Cowork, running on Azure infrastructure. The deployment extends a December 2024
HAN LLP — a business law firm with New York and Los Angeles offices — selected iManage to centralize document management, strengthen version control, and support secure collaboration (announced July 16). Separately, RELX reported accelerating growth in its scientific and legal units on July 23 — LexisNexis remains a dominant revenue engine for RELX even as AI-native competitors gain share. For DMS
Litera announced a full brand relaunch on July 15 positioning itself as a platform that unifies the practice and business of law, underpinned by its generative AI agent Lito across drafting, contract review, knowledge, and client development tools. The practical differentiators Litera CEO Avaneesh Marwaha emphasized are pricing model and answer type: Litera currently offers Lito on a complimentary
Perplexity launched Computer for Counsel on July 14, connecting Perplexity Computer to the research databases, document repositories, contract tools, and matter-management systems lawyers use daily. Available now to Enterprise and Max subscribers, the platform integrates with Microsoft 365 (Word, SharePoint, Outlook, Teams), Google Workspace, and an App Connector library of 400+ tools including Ne
Harvey deployed GPT-5.6 Sol on July 9 for US customers (EU and AU availability to follow), achieving 92.7% on BigLaw Bench — a step up from GPT-5.5's 91.7% — with perfect scores in risk assessment, compliance, and deal management. The release accompanied co-founder Gabe Pereyra's disclosure that Harvey's token processing volume grew 14x in the past six months. A single contract review can now cost
Harvey and Artificial Analysis jointly released Harvey LAB-AA (Legal Agent Benchmark), a new agentic legal benchmark evaluating language models on 120 real-world legal tasks across 24 practice areas — including corporate M&A, capital markets, tax, litigation, and bankruptcy. The primary metric is an "all-pass rate" requiring every criterion in a task rubric to be satisfied, reflecting the binary s
Harbor, a legal technology professional services company, acquired iTrain, a UK-based legal technology training and AI enablement specialist. The deal directly extends Harbor's capacity for change management and technology adoption — a service it identifies as a top priority for law firms investing in AI. The Equaldocs analysis published July 10 frames the acquisition in the context of agentic AI