How the Anthropic Legal Plugin Works (and How to Use It Without Claude Code)
Anthropic open-sourced a legal plugin with NDA triage and risk classification skills. Here's what the skills actually check, how they work, and how to access them via email without any coding.
Thomson Reuters Launches CoCounsel Knowledge Search for iManage: What It Means for Law Firms
AmLaw 100 firms can now access unified AI search across their document management systems and Thomson Reuters content, potentially streamlining research workflows and demonstrating the growing ecosystem of iManage AI integrations.
Clio Acquires vLex for $1B, AI Workflow Tools Gain Traction, and Other Legal Tech News
Clio's $1B acquisition of vLex reshapes the legal research market. AI workflow tools are gaining traction, but vendor lock-in is a concern. Other news includes issues with AI apologies, Cloudflare's 'pay-per-crawl' model, and talent mobility from OpenAI to Meta.
AI Update: ChatGPT Connectors and UseJunior's Google Cloud Partnership
This week's AI update covers new ways to bring ChatGPT into your workflow and UseJunior's elevation to Google's "Ecosystem Partner" tier.
What Rio Tinto's iManage + Deep Research Integration Reveals About AI's Potential
Rio Tinto's legal team (OTCMKTS: RTNTF) just demonstrated something that should get every knowledge management practice's attention: they've successfully integrated ChatGPT's Deep Research capability with their iManage system...
Google's AI Usage Skyrockets 50x: IO Conference Showcases Groundbreaking Advancements
This week, Google's IO conference, held May 20-21, 2025, at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, unveiled a series of transformative AI advancements that have captured the tech industry's attention. Google CEO Sundar Pichai reported that AI usage across Google's products has surged 50x over the past 12 months ...
Google DeepMind's AlphaEvolve Achieves AI Breakthroughs; Legal AI Training Evolves
Google DeepMind announced AlphaEvolve, an AI agent that has made significant algorithmic discoveries, demonstrating AI's capacity for novel invention. Concurrently, legal education is adapting by integrating AI literacy into curricula, exemplified by UC Berkeley's new program.
Law Firms Are Not Dinosaurs: Why Silicon Valley's Call for AI-Powered Law Firms to 'Make the Dinosaurs Extinct' Misses the Mark
Y Combinator's call to build AI-native law firms that will 'make the dinosaurs extinct' misses the mark. Traditional law firms are rapidly adopting AI and building trust-based relationships that matter more than disruption rhetoric.
Why Legal Innovation Leaders Can't Afford to Ignore Google's New Model
Gemini 2.5 Pro has less than half the hallucination rate of GPT-4.1, dramatically reducing risks and driving accuracy in contract-intensive legal work. Here's why legal innovation leaders can't afford to overlook Gemini this year.
OpenAI Addresses Sycophancy Issues; AI Persuasiveness Raises Concerns
OpenAI releases extensive report addressing GPT-4o sycophancy concerns, large-scale study proves AI persuasion surpasses human benchmarks, Google's NotebookLM mobile app announced, and emerging concerns about memory pollution and hallucinations.
Claude can search through emails; Google Sheets integrates AI; UseJunior achieves ISO 27001 certification
Anthropic added research ability to Claude, including the ability to search Gmail and Google Calendar. Google Workspace embedded AI directly into Google Sheets. UseJunior achieved ISO 27001 data security certification.
AI Updates for Lawyers: Freshfields Partners with Google Cloud Integration
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer announces strategic collaboration with Google Cloud, Gemini 2.5 Pro tops LLM rankings, Google launches adjustable reasoning with Gemini 2.5 Flash, and concerns about ChatGPT-4o's praise bias in legal applications.
A&O Shearman Receives AI Revenue Share from Harvey in Exchange for Help Promoting AI Agents; Google Advances AI Agent Standards
A&O Shearman and Harvey AI announce revenue-sharing partnership for agentic AI development, Google launches Agent2Agent protocol, ChatGPT gains enhanced memory features, and Meta releases Llama 4 with 10M token context window.
AI Avatars in Legal Tech: Adoption Trends and What AI Is Really Predicting Beyond Next Token
AI avatar attempts courtroom argument, small law firm AI adoption nearly doubles, and new research reveals AI thinks ahead beyond simple next-word prediction. Plus updates on Google Gemini 2.5 Pro and LegalWeek 2025 innovations.
Gemini 2.5 Experimental Release and Popularization of AI Agent Protocols
Google releases experimental Gemini 2.5 with Canvas collaboration tool, OpenAI adopts Model Context Protocol standard, Zapier adds MCP support, new audio models launched, and Baidu introduces ERNIE 4.5 and X1 reasoning models.
Cleary Gottlieb Acquires AI Development Company; EY Announces Agentic AI Platform; ServiceNow Acquires AI Assistant Provider for $3.85bn
Major legal industry moves as Cleary Gottlieb acquires Springbok AI, ServiceNow buys Moveworks for $2.85 billion, EY launches AI platform with 150 agents, and NVIDIA and xAI join $30 billion AI infrastructure partnership.
AI Agent Toolkit, Free Deep Research, Text Editor Tool and Our Experiences with AI Agent Tool Implementations
OpenAI launches new agent development toolkit, Google's Deep Research goes free for all users, Anthropic enhances text editing capabilities, and our hands-on demos with EDGAR and Microsoft Word integrations using Model Context Protocol.