TeddyHoldings.AI has closed a $60 million seed round from undisclosed limited partners, with the legal services and compliance startup declining to name its leadership or specific focus. The company says it has already passed $25 million in revenue. Teddy AI was incubated by Tucker's Farm Corp, a holding company that grew out of a Bermuda-based

BMW Group is further integrating AI into its legal operations by rolling out Legora across its in-house legal team. The initiative supports the department's strategy to enhance efficiency, strengthen knowledge management, and enable lawyers to maintain focus on strategic legal advice and risk management. MUNICH, 8 October, 2026 – Legora, the agentic operating system for legal

Government legal agencies are rapidly expanding AI use to offset staffing shortages, but a new Thomson Reuters Institute report shows adoption is uneven and risk-laden. Only a third of agencies use legal-specific generative AI, and just 7% use agentic AI. Nearly 80% of government lawyers worry about confidential data exposure and 73% about AI accuracy.

Malaysia plans to introduce its first dedicated AI law in early 2027, with the government drafting an AI Act that takes a risk-based approach and building out enforcement mechanisms, Digital Minister Gobind Singh Deo told parliament. The move follows the EU's rollout of its own AI Act and forms part of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's

Esther Chiang has an unusual CV even by the standards of legal tech founders. She read electrical engineering and English literature at Stanford, spent time at Qualcomm, then went to law school. Fifteen years of private funds practice followed, first at Sidley Austin, then as a partner at Kirkland & Ellis and Paul Hastings. In

Former Allen & Overy senior partner Wim Dejonghe and ex-Freshfields lawyer Rémy Bonnaffé have joined Falcon, a Ghent-based AI-native law firm that has raised €1.5 million in pre-seed funding. Falcon targets startups and SMEs with flat monthly fees instead of hourly billing, using an in-house platform that handles commercial contracts via Teams and Slack before

Karnov Group has published Inside the Legal Mind 2026, a survey of 3,129 legal professionals in Denmark, Spain, France, Norway and Sweden. It launched at the IBA Annual Conference in Copenhagen and is the group's first report at this scale. It covers four themes: pressure on the rule of law, AI in legal work, motivation

Unlike other legal AI companies, Ivo Sage is the first model that attorneys, researchers and developers can download, run and build on top of it for free; Ivo also previews a new contract-review benchmark at Ivo Inscribe, the company’s first customer event for in-house legal and contracting teams SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Inscribe Conference –

Opus 2 has acquired Bundledocs, a Cork-based developer of cloud-based, AI-ready collaborative document bundling software, in its third deal in five years. The move expands Opus 2's reach across the dispute lifecycle and strengthens its offering for firms with multijurisdictional practices. Bundledocs serves 1,900 clients across 35 countries, including more than 100 of the UK's

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed SB 947, the No Robo Bosses Act, barring employers in the state from relying solely on AI to fire or discipline workers. Under the bill, employers that "primarily" rely on AI output in such decisions must have a human reviewer corroborate them using sources including managerial evaluations, peer reviews,

The Tokyo District Court has issued the first ruling in Japan recognising the right to one's own voice, in a case involving voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda. Tsuda, known for roles including Kento Nanami in Jujutsu Kaisen, had sued over an anonymous TikTok account that used an AI clone of his voice to narrate over 180

Clio has acquired Learned Hand, an AI company building technology specifically for judges and courts, marking its first direct expansion into the judiciary. Learned Hand's AI workspace connects with court case management systems to help judges and clerks understand matters, work through filings, conduct legal research, and prepare bench memoranda and draft orders tailored to

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson has said he will resist describing AI agents as autonomous actors with "wills and desires of their own," signalling that developers who instruct AI tools should bear liability for resulting harm. Speaking at Reuters Momentum AI Austin, Ferguson favoured applying existing legal tools to AI oversight and suggested FTC

Anthropic has told investors that advanced AI could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity," according to Reuters and the Financial Times, as the company prepares for a potential $2 trillion flotation. The prospectus reportedly warns that AI models could exhibit "self-preserving behaviours," including attempts to resist shutdown, conceal or manipulate information, and conduct "resembling

President Donald Trump has released a one-page AI accord following his Washington meeting with leading tech executives, describing it as "morally binding." Signed by Trump and the CEOs of Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, X, and Nvidia, the document urges four layers of controls: external independent audits of AI monitoring systems, an independent board committee to

Former LegalZoom CEO brings decades of category-defining legal services experience to support Steno as it solidifies its position as the leading tech-enabled court reporting and litigation support services provider in the USA. LOS ANGELES, September 29, 2026 - Steno, the leader in tech-enabled court reporting and litigation support services, today announced the appointment of legal

Three House Democrats, Reps. Josh Gottheimer, Valerie Foushee, and Ted Lieu, have written to the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceXAI, Google, and Meta demanding a complete inventory of every known instance in which their models or agents gained or attempted to gain unauthorised access to systems outside company control. The letter follows recent breaches, including

King's College London, The City Law School and BPP University Law School are first to join, with students at pro bono clinics using Legora on live cases from day one. LONDON, September 29, 2026 – Legora today announced the expansion of its Legal AI Scholars Programme to the United Kingdom, collaborating with leading UK law

Chamelio, the AI-native platform for in-house legal teams, has raised a $26 million Series A led by Entrée Capital, with existing investors Work-Bench and Emerge Ventures back on the cap table alongside new participation from Bright Pixel Capital. The company announced the round on 22 September from New York, five months after closing its seed.

Hong Kong authorities have postponed the Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2025, which would have introduced an "opt-out" mechanism for text and data mining in AI model training. Instead, the government will first draft operational guidelines on how the mechanism would work in practice. The bill, originally due before the Legislative Council in early 2025, was removed

Legal futurist Professor Richard Susskind has argued that human judgement will not shield lawyers from the impact of AI, in the 30th anniversary edition of his book The Future of Law. Susskind predicts AGI, systems matching human cognitive capabilities, will make generative AI reliable for most legal tasks by the early 2030s, often without human

Align, founded in 2020 by former Williams & Connolly litigation partner Sam Davidoff, has expanded from its original Align Binders product into AI-powered legal research with the launch of Align Research. The bootstrapped legal tech company describes Align Research as an agentic AI-based platform with a custom legal research pipeline designed to retrieve US case

CMS Germany has appointed Matthias Langbehn, formerly general counsel at Lufthansa airline for 18 years, to reshape the firm's approach to pricing legal services in the AI era. His mandate focuses on making fees more predictable, deciding when clients should pay for AI-enabled services, and recognising that not every client will accept AI premiums. The

San Francisco-based Fearn AI has raised $5.5 million to expand its AI-powered patent filing service, which it claims can speed up the process more than tenfold. The company charges fixed fees of $2,500 for a provisional patent application and $9,000 for a non-provisional filing, replacing the hourly billing model of traditional law firms. Founded by

California Governor Gavin Newsom has named a group of leading experts to help implement his recent AI executive order, which advances the creation of an emergency "kill switch" for frontier models and stronger independent oversight of AI companies. The advisers are Jason Goldman (Center for Shared AI Prosperity), Gillian Hadfield (Johns Hopkins), Alondra Nelson (Institute

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a June 2024 notice reminding lawyers of their duty to verify filings amid growing concern about AI misuse, but the notice itself cited the wrong rule. Instead of Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 46(b)(1)(B), which governs attorney discipline, it cited Rule 6(b)(1)(B), which relates to

From the first official legal practice management connector for Anthropic’s Claude to greater expense intelligence, 8am’s new product release series delivers new tools for professional firms AUSTIN, TX (September 23, 2026) — 8am™, the professional business platform purpose-built for the needs of legal, accounting, and client-focused professionals, today unveiled 8am Showcase, the company’s new product

Noxtua, Europe's Legal AI, has closed a Series C funding round of more than €100 million, with German legal publisher C.H.BECK becoming the new majority shareholder and Austrian publisher MANZ joining as a new investor. The round marks C.H.BECK's largest ever investment. Noxtua, founded in Berlin in 2017, now has more than 30,000 users, around

Relevance Determination Agent and Issue Coding Agent are part of a growing portfolio designed to automate complex government, legal, and compliance workflows with human oversight built in. WASHINGTON, September 23, 2026 — Casepoint, a leading provider of secure, unified government, legal, and compliance solutions, today announced a portfolio of purpose-built agents powered by Casepoint IQ™,

Legora is in discussions to raise at least $300 million at a pre-money valuation of around $8.5 billion, Bloomberg reports. That is a step up from the $5.6 billion valuation set at its April Series D, but below the $10 billion or more the company was reportedly seeking in August. CFO David Eckstein has said

Collaboration applies UEL’s AI with Integrity framework within Edenreach’s proprietary impact assessment process, exploring how governance can enable innovation, trust and human judgement as AI-supported Justice Finance develops. LONDON, 22 September 2026: Edenreach is working with the University of East London (UEL) through an Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership to apply and refine elements of

Chamelio has raised $26 million in a Series A round led by Entrée Capital, with participation from Work-Bench, Emerge Ventures, and Bright Pixel Capital. The AI-native platform positions itself as...

The Singapore Academy of Law has rolled out a series of AI-powered upgrades to LawNet, its legal research platform used by more than 75% of practising lawyers in Singapore. The changes include an expanded legislation module now covering 10 statutes, AI-generated annotated statutes (starting with the Companies Act, with a provisional patent filed on the

If you’ve spent any time in the legal tech corner of LinkedIn over the past several years, you’ll already know Colin Levy. Which in itself is a pretty impressive thing to be able to say about a GC, given that GC’s aren’t usually the most public members of a team. But Colin, in fairness, is

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said he will press for global AI guardrails when he meets world leaders at the UN in New York this week, drawing parallels with nuclear non-proliferation agreements. Albanese emphasised the need for AI kill switches and hoped US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping would find common

OpenAI released Astra for Law on September 17. The GPT-6 Astra product includes an index of U.S. case law, statutes, regulations, court rules and administrative decisions across more than 230 million URLs. Selected law firms will receive initial access through a program with zero data retention and controls for confidential client work. Harvey, Legora, Relativity,

Litera connects Litera Foundation to ChatGPT with a plugin, the growth-intelligence backbone used by more than 300 leading law firms, as frontier intelligence meets firm intelligence CHICAGO - Sept. 17, 2026 - Litera, the Legal AI platform provider that best unifies the practice and business of law, announced its plugin availability within ChatGPT Enterprise, bringing Foundation Firm AI Search

iManage plugin extends permission-bound access to the iManage platform to knowledge workers in ChatGPT, backed by iManage's open approach to AI tools LONDON, September 17, 2026 — iManage, the company dedicated to Making Knowledge Work™, today announced a new integration with ChatGPT Enterprise. The iManage plug-in gives knowledge workers a direct way to securely access and

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 1050 on September 16. The law requires explicit disclosure on video or audio advertisements that use AI-generated performers to sell products or services. It also prohibits the continued use of advertisements found to violate the law. Click here for the official case/release Disclaimer The Legal Wire takes all necessary

Lucio AI made Elevate generally available on September 16 after a four-month beta. The system produces spreadsheets with working formulas, transaction diagrams, speaker-separated transcripts, documents based on firm templates, and presentation decks. Elevate is now available to all Lucio users. Click here for the official case/release Disclaimer The Legal Wire takes all necessary precautions to

Former ATF Chief Privacy Officer brings extensive federal government, technology, risk, privacy, and military leadership experience to Casepoint. WASHINGTON, September 16, 2026 — Casepoint, a leading provider of secure, unified eDiscovery, legal hold, FOIA, and investigations solutions, today announced the appointment of Varun Bisht as Vice President of Governance and Compliance. The appointment comes as Casepoint expands

LegalOps.com to join Exterro, ACEDS, EDRM and eDiscovery Today as sponsors of 12th annual celebration of eDiscovery; Launches industry’s first Rising Stars Award PORTLAND, Ore., Sep 15, 2026 - Exterro, which founded eDiscovery Day in 2015, today announced the twelfth annual observance of eDiscovery Day will be celebrated on Thursday, December 3, 2026. eDiscovery Day

One platform for comprehensive legal data and AI-native navigation, built on a full ontology of law and an AI-native citator. NEW YORK/STOCKHOLM – September 14, 2026 – Legora, the agentic operating system for legal professionals, is putting a new foundation under legal research in its platform: comprehensive data built on a full ontology of law and

Morgan & Morgan, the largest plaintiff law firm in the US, has committed at least $1 billion over the next 10 years to legal tech and AI, formally unveiling MX2, its in-house AI platform. The investment builds on around $300 million already spent over the past five years. MX2 comprises four products: Agent, embedded in

The role of the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer is undergoing a profound transformation. Once viewed primarily as legal advisors and risk managers, today's leaders are increasingly expected to help shape business strategy, navigate uncertainty, and enable growth in an environment defined by geopolitical volatility, technological disruption, and regulatory complexity. For Dr. Thomas Schönholzer,

There’s a saying Terry Dohrmann returns to more than once, borrowed from an old sales leader of his at Salesforce. If a client needs a spoon, do not try sell them the whole knife set. Sounds obvious, right? Until you try to apply it in a legal AI market that decided the correct answer to

A cross-party group of UK MPs and peers on the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) has called for new legislation to address the human rights risks posed by AI, warning that no jurisdiction currently has a fit-for-purpose regulatory approach. In a 100-page report, the committee argued that AI has enabled abuses including the creation

Edwin Coe, the leading independent London law firm, has made Legora available for all its lawyers to use, with training designed around the work of each individual team. LONDON, United Kingdom – 11 September 2026 – Legora, the agentic operating system for legal professionals, today announced that Edwin Coe LLP has rolled out Legora firm-wide, across

China's Supreme People's Court has issued Opinions on Adjudicating Disputes Involving Artificial Intelligence in Accordance with the Law, setting a national judicial benchmark for AI-related disputes. The 24 provisions cover personality rights, personal information, intellectual property, consumer protection, autonomous vehicles, and the use of AI in judicial proceedings. Issued as a judicial policy document rather

Newcode AI Ireland began a six-week AI enablement programme involving 30 law firms. Its first intake comprises 475 legal professionals and covers AI literacy, discipline-specific training, governance, leadership development and an AI champions track. Newcode is also launching an AI Academy offering continuing professional development and customised law-firm workshops. Click here for the official case/release