Capital and competition in legal AI are accelerating, with Swedish startup Legora’s $550M raise and Linklaters’ 80% partner usage showing the shift from pilots to firm-wide deployment. The business-model pressure is now visible: UK firm...

Big Tech and the biggest law firms are moving from experimenting with AI to owning it. Microsoft has launched a legal vertical, Hogan Lovells Cadwalader has signed with both Harvey and Legora, and Freshfields is weighing a spin-out of its AI unit....

UK law firms are being squeezed from two directions this week: clients are using AI to take work in-house, and legal AI rivals Harvey and Legora are racing to sell directly into corporate legal departments. Meanwhile, EU regulators have begun...

Legal AI is in a consolidation phase: Europe’s legal-research sector is attracting capital and acquirers while courts on both sides of the Atlantic keep grappling with AI-generated errors. Investors are shifting from AI research tools to...

Legal AI is shifting from experimentation to industrialisation: capital is flowing into European and US legaltech, vendors are embedding trusted research content directly into AI drafting workflows, and consolidation is picking up. Meanwhile, the...

Legal AI money is flowing into two very different bets this week: AI-native law firms that replace the billable hour (Arceus) and the European data infrastructure that legal AI tools depend on (Pandektes). Meanwhile, capital is concentrating in a...