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Lokeshwari Varshika works at the intersection of law, business strategy, and emerging technology. She currently serves as a Corporate Strategy Analyst at InstaPill, where she supports high-value mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships, and corporate growth initiatives within the pharmaceutical sector. Her work involves transaction structuring, due diligence, commercial negotiations, and cross-functional collaboration across legal, finance, and business teams. Alongsi

It has been a belief that lawyers would be replaced by AI since AI adoption among lawyers jumped from 19% to 79% between 2023 and 2024. However, AI won’t replace lawyers, but lawyers who use AI will replace lawyers who don’t. With the advent of AI, new roles, such as legal engineer, have emerged. Yes, it is an actual designation that has the job of working at the intersection of law and technology. Richard Susskind predicted the requirement of this job in his book, The End

Sruthi Bandhakavi works at the intersection of law, technology, and policy in India. She is currently a Senior Legal Counsel at Leegality, a legal technology company that provides digital infrastructure and privacy compliance solutions for businesses. Her work spans the full spectrum of in-house legal functions, with a particular focus on technology and privacy laws, product compliance, and driving technology adoption within legal operations. Prior to joining Leegality, Sruth

Acquisitions often reveal more about a company’s future than product releases. Over the past year, Harvey and Legora have pursued a series of acquisitions, acqui-hires and partnerships. These deals viewed individually appear incremental but when they are viewed collectively, they reveal much deeper insight into the corporate development playbooks of two of the most prominent Legal AI companies. While Harvey and Legora are both expanding beyond their core products, their app

How would you feel if your lawyer used a case that doesn’t exist in reality and is just AI-generated? Not great, right? Thereby, responding to a parliamentary query on artificial intelligence in the legal profession, the BCI said lawyers remain responsible for every pleading and submission filed before a court regardless of whether AI tools were used in their preparation. “If a false case, fake quote, or misleading proposition is filed, the advocate cannot avoid account

When the company that builds the models decides to build for lawyers directly, it is tempting to read it as one more giant entering the race. The more useful reading is what the move reveals. Legal AI is quietly turning into a contest over who owns the workflow, not who owns the model. In May 2026, Artificial Lawyer reported that OpenAI was planning a legal offering, understood for now as "Codex for Legal." Within two weeks the plan turned concrete. On 1 June, OpenAI formally

The most disruptive move in legal AI this season did not come from a legal AI startup. It came from the software already open on every lawyer's screen. On 30 April 2026, Microsoft launched its "Legal Agent" inside Microsoft Word, a purpose-built AI tool for contract review and redlining. For now it is a preview, available only to Microsoft 365 Copilot customers in the US through the company's Frontier programme. This is not a general assistant bolted onto a toolbar. In Micros

Picture your firm choosing a legal AI tool. Two vendors give great demos. Both review contracts, pull up case law, and draft in seconds. You compare the annual prices, pick the one that fits your budget, and sign. Six months later, the bill looks nothing like what you expected. Nobody misled you. You just looked at the wrong number. Underneath the subscription price of almost every legal AI tool, there is a second layer: a usage meter that decides what the tool really costs o

As a lawyer or even a law student, AI has made working easier than ever. Or has it? Imagine you are using an AI research tool for help as you are working. You upload a contract for review, or ask the tool to pull relevant judgments from an external database. The AI returns a confident, well-structured summary; complete with case citations, legal principles, and a clear recommendation. You use it in a memo to a client. Later, you discover the citations were fabricated. This i

Venture capital firms are no longer debating whether AI will impact legal services. The deeper disagreement now lies in how that transformation unfolds, who captures value from it, and whether the future of legal services will continue to resemble the traditional law firm model at all. While the previous section identified the broad areas of convergence across LegalTech investment theses, the differences between these firms become more visible when questions of pricing, trust

This Part in the LegalTech Investment Thesis Series examines the major areas of convergence across leading venture capital perspectives on LegalTech and AI-driven legal services. While firms such as General Catalyst, Sequoia, a16z, Lightspeed, Battery Ventures, and The LegalTech Fund approach the market through different lenses; ranging from AI-native services and workflow infrastructure to legal operations and augmentation tools; a closer reading reveals several recurring st

Venture Capital ("VC") firms have traditionally shied away from investing in LegalTech because of legal services being slow, conservative, and tied to the billable hour. What was once a graveyard for an ambitious founder is becoming a vertical that can rapidly dominate enterprise software. VC firms such as General Catalyst, Sequoia, a16z, Lightspeed, and Battery Ventures have independently published investment theses that have touched LegalTech, focusing on the billable model

If you’ve been following the global legal AI space, you’ll know that the conversation has been shifting - from “can AI do legal work?” TO “ how do we actually measure how well it does legal work?” That’s exactly the gap Harvey just stepped into. On May 6, 2026, Harvey, the legal AI platform now valued at $11 billion and used by over 100,000 lawyers across 60 countries launched the Legal Agent Benchmark (LAB), an open-source framework for evaluating AI agents on real-world tas

On May 12, 2026, Anthropic made what is arguably the most significant move in LegalTech this year: the formal launch of Claude for Legal. A dedicated AI offering built specifically for law firms, in-house legal teams, and legal professionals. If you've been watching the legal AI space, you know things have been moving fast. But this one is different. What Is Claude for Legal? In short, it's Anthropic's attempt to embed Claude, one of the world's most capable large language mo

We conducted a focused session under the Women in LegalTech vertical of the Indian LegalTech Network (ILTN), titled "Navigating AI Regulation in India." The conversation featured Paavni Jain, Assistant Director at the Cyril Shroff Centre for AI, Law and Regulation, and Assistant Professor at Jindal Global Law School (JGLS), and brought together a room of women exploring, building, and questioning the future of LegalTech in India. The discussion moved quickly past surface-leve

Brinda G Lashkari is a lawyer working at the intersection of public policy, data governance, and digital public infrastructure. She is currently a Project Lead at Setu, where she works on advancing technology-driven solutions within governance systems. Prior to this, she served as a Senior Associate at Artha Global in the Technology and Innovation team, where she worked on safeguarding Digital Public Infrastructure and building the capacity of public officials to adopt digita

Karishma Govil is a legal technology professional with over a decade of experience working at the intersection of law, contracts, and innovation. She currently serves as a Legal Technology Advisor at Clifford Chance , where she collaborates with legal teams to implement AI and legal tech solutions that streamline workflows, enhance compliance, and improve operational efficiency across global teams. Her work reflects a strong foundation in contract lifecycle management and le

Krimul Malhotra is a tech-forward lawyer working at the intersection of intellectual property, technology, and innovation. She currently serves as Special Products Lead at August , where she focuses on building and refining legal-tech solutions that integrate AI into real-world legal and compliance workflows. Krimul began her career in tech transactions at Wipro , working on cross-border deals, SaaS, and licensing agreements, before pursuing an LL.M. in Competition, Innovati

Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) and Fabrication of Records In State v. Coleman , an attorney allowed a paralegal to use ChatGPT to prepare an appellate filing. However, the AI tool generated fabricated transcript quotations attributing specific inflammatory statements to a real prosecutor that was never spoken. When the Ohio Court of Appeals identified these fabrications, the attorney did not promptly correct the record. Instead, when the matter escalated the filings continu

Some of the most useful LegalTech conversations don’t happen on panels. They happen across tables—with coffee, questions, and people willing to be honest. That’s exactly what the MikeLegal x ILTN Coffee Meet in Delhi felt like. Starting with the Basics—What Even Is LegalTech? Before diving into tools or trends, the room paused on something more fundamental: what does LegalTech actually mean? The answers weren’t uniform. For some, it was automation. For others, efficiency. Fo