Vodafone pushes into legal tech market to co-develop AI platform Legal Vodafone has partnered with an AI startup to co-develop a legal tech tool, challenging market heavyweights Harvey and Legora. The telecoms giant has teamed up with Aavalynx to co-develop an AI-driven litigation platform that helps manage and track legal disputes and forecast financial costs tied to these. The AI company told Morning Wire the joint [...]
Elite law firm to splash £370m on building own AI tool Legal The world’s largest law firm by revenue, Kirkland & Ellis, is investing £370m ($500m) to develop its own custom-built AI platform, challenging competitors that rely on widely used third-party AI tools. The US-based firm, which has a large office in the City, said it plans to spend hundreds of millions over the next three to [...]
How can we trust the justice system when AI is hallucinating evidence? Opinion AI-hallucinated evidence in court has become a structural issue that needs a procedural response, writes Nicholas Blomfield.
Burges Salmon and Wexler roll out firm-wide legal AI partnership May 11, 2026 Leading UK law firm Burges Salmon is rolling out a new company-wide partnership with legal tech startup Wexler to aid lawyers in litigation work, Morning Wire can reveal. The Bristol-headquartered legal practice said Wexler is “a reliable option” and the firm-wide partnership follows “a successful integration” of adopting Wexler in the Dispute Resolution team in [...]
Clio founder: We may not have the hype of Jude Law, but our data beats any AI rival April 21, 2026 Legal tech Clio’s boss tells senior reporter Maria Ward-Brennan that, with rivals closing in, the firm is betting that proprietary data, not hype, will determine its competitive edge in the AI race.In a competitive landscape, Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton believes his legal tech firm is in a “great position” in the marketplace, because [...]
Anthropic’s new tool raises bar for legal AI startups February 5, 2026 A dramatic shift is underway in the legal tech landscape as AI advancements disrupt traditional industry leaders. This comes as the traditional research and analytics software businesses saw billions wiped out from their market share this week after Anthropic announced its new AI. San Francisco-based AI giant Anthropic, the firm behind chatbot Claude, revealed on [...]
CMS rolls out Suits-inspired AI after saving lawyers 100 hours December 10, 2025 Law firm CMS has said it aims to ‘stay ahead of the curve’ by rolling out legal tool Harvey AI after lawyers reported already seeing “meaningful time savings”. The law firm is set to extend the use of the AI tool, named after the fictional character in Suits, across all 21 CMS member organisations in [...]