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For more than three decades, the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) industry was built around one of technology’s most successful business models: charging customers per seat. This pricing model gave customers predictable costs based on team size because it was based on the number of licensed users. SaaS followed this across industries including customer relationship platforms, enterprise collaboration tools and LegalTech platforms. The economics were compelling with revenue growin

With over two decades of experience spanning organisational development, workplace governance, investigations, and technology, Pallavi has dedicated her career to helping institutions build safer, fairer, and more accountable workplaces. Her work sits at the intersection of law, systems thinking, and organisational change, driven by a belief that technology should not simply automate processes, but strengthen decision-making and trust. At present, she is building Ungender, a

Picture a small Indian legaltech founder with a genuinely useful product. An AI tool that helps a litigant chase an unpaid invoice or scans a property document and flags the risky clauses in minutes instead of hours. The technology works. The demand is obvious. And then the founder hits the wall every Indian legaltech builder knows: Who do I even ask whether this is allowed? Does the Bar Council have a view? What does the data-protection law require? Will any of this get a la

Evidence of the Token Budgeting Crisis Jonathann Low, Partner and Co-founder of Predictiv Consulting, explained that the AI industry's move from flat-rate fees to token-based billing, which charges for every line of code generated, has become too expensive for many companies. Microsoft used Anthropic’s Claude Code, whose bill is priced by the token, and the costs ran way past the annual budget. This led it to terminate its license with Claude by 30th June 2026 and move its ow

Innovation is often celebrated through success stories. But behind every successful legal transformation are experiments that didn't go as planned—and valuable lessons that rarely get shared. As a side event of LegalTechTalk 2026, the Indian LegalTech Network (ILTN) and Justice Adda hosted Fail Camp: The Honest Conversation Legal Innovation Needs, a 90-minute facilitated workshop designed to create space for something the legal industry doesn't talk about enough: failure. Bri

The legal profession is entering a new phase of AI adoption—one where the focus is shifting from experimentation to practical implementation. Against this backdrop, the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) x Indian LegalTech Network (ILTN) Innovation Panel, supported by Khaitan & Co, brought together legal leaders, in-house professionals, and innovators for an engaging discussion on "What In-House Teams Actually Need from Law Firms in the AI Era." The conversatio

The Indian LegalTech Network (ILTN) is delighted to announce its partnership with TechLaw.Fest 2026 as an Industry Partner, strengthening our commitment to connecting India's legal innovation ecosystem with global conversations on the future of law and technology. As legal services continue to evolve through artificial intelligence, automation, digital transformation, and emerging technologies, meaningful collaboration across jurisdictions has never been more important. TechL

The Indian LegalTech Network (ILTN) is pleased to share that it has submitted its comments on the Draft Regulations for Use of Artificial Intelligence in Courts, 2026, released by the Supreme Court of India for public consultation. As part of our consultation process, ILTN hosted an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session with Mohit Mokal, Founder, Mohit Mokal Mediation, bringing together members of the legal and legaltech community to discuss the proposed framework, its practical impl

Puja Vaishnavi is a legal professional with a strong focus on contracts, compliance, and legal operations. She currently works as an Associate (Contracts & Compliance) at Vyapi, where she manages the end-to-end contract lifecycle, including drafting, reviewing, redlining, negotiating, and overseeing commercial agreements such as MSAs, SOWs, NDAs, and amendments. Her work combines traditional legal expertise with modern legal technology, leveraging CLM platforms and AI-enabled

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