Weekly AI Updates for Lawyers

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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...

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By Steven Obiajulu
Jun 15, 2025
AI Legal Tech LegalZoom Perplexity Legal Industry

LegalZoom and Perplexity AI: Innovation with Caveats

The partnership between LegalZoom and Perplexity AI marks a significant step in blending legal services with AI-driven platforms, but lawyers must stay in control to ensure accuracy and ethical compliance.

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By Steven Obiajulu and David McCalib
Jun 5, 2025
AI Legal Tech Anthropic Claude Legal Industry

AI Updates For Lawyers: Anthropic's Transparency Efforts

Anthropic has released a comprehensive safety card for its Claude 4 models, detailing various safety evaluations and results. This move towards transparency is crucial for the legal tech industry.

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By Steven Obiajulu and David McCalib
Jun 4, 2025
AI Legal Tech

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 ...

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By Steven Obiajulu and David McCalib
May 21, 2025
AI Legal Tech Innovation Legal Education Breakthroughs

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.

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By Steven Obiajulu
May 15, 2025
AI Legal Tech Law Firms Y Combinator Legal Industry

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.

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By Steven Obiajulu
May 8, 2025
AI Legal Tech Gemini Legal Innovation

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.

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By Steven Obiajulu
May 7, 2025
AI Legal Tech OpenAI Sycophancy AI Persuasion NotebookLM AI Ethics

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.

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By Steven Obiajulu, David McCalib, Joe Obiajulu
May 1, 2025
AI Legal Tech Claude Google Sheets Security Agentic AI

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.

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By Steven Obiajulu, David McCalib and Joseph Obiajulu
Apr 24, 2025
AI Legal Tech Freshfields Google Cloud Gemini OpenAI Law Firm AI

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.

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By Steven Obiajulu, David McCalib, Joe Obiajulu
Apr 17, 2025
AI Legal Tech A&O Shearman Harvey AI Google Agent Protocols Revenue Sharing

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.

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By Steven Obiajulu
Apr 10, 2025
AI Legal Tech Court Technology Small Law Firms Google Gemini

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.

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By Steven Obiajulu, David McCalib and Joseph Obiajulu
Apr 3, 2025
AI Legal Tech Google Gemini OpenAI MCP Agent Protocols Baidu ERNIE

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.

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By Steven Obiajulu, David McCalib and Joseph Obiajulu
Mar 27, 2025
AI Legal Tech Cleary Gottlieb EY ServiceNow Acquisitions AI Infrastructure

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.

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By Steven Obiajulu, David McCalib, and Joseph Obiajulu
Mar 20, 2025
AI Legal Tech OpenAI Google Deep Research Anthropic Agent Tools MCP

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.

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By Steven Obiajulu
Mar 13, 2025