July 14, 2025 -- Issue #349
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Exit/M&A
◾️ From Legaltech News:
“On Tuesday, legal tech startup Eudia announced that it has acquired alternative legal service provider (ALSP) Johnson Hana for an undisclosed amount.
“With the acquisition, Eudia aims to bolster its agentic AI technology with support from Johnson Hana’s legal consulting staff who will bring legal expertise and industry knowledge.”
https://www.law.com/legaltechnews/2025/07/08/agentic-ai-legal-tech-startup-eudia-acquires-alsp-johnson-hana/
Fundraising
◾️ Legaltech News writes:
On Wednesday, New York-based legal tech startup ClaimClam announced that it has rebranded as Chariot Claims and announced that it raised $3.6 million in a seed round.
Led by Indicator Ventures, the seed round also received participation from Lightbank, Neon Ventures, Alumni Ventures, FJ Labs, Graph Ventures, Rosecliff Ventures, Chapter F and ZVC.
https://www.law.com/legaltechnews/2025/07/09/mass-action-startup-chariot-claims-formerly-claimclam-announces-36m-seed-round/
◾️ Reporting from Legaltech News:
“On Thursday, prenuptial agreement startup HelloPrenup announced that it has received an undisclosed investment from The LegalTech Fund.
“HelloPrenup is a platform that allows users to collaborate on building prenuptial agreements that are reviewed by lawyers, and can be notarized.”
https://www.law.com/legaltechnews/2025/07/10/prenup-agreement-startup-helloprenup-announces-investment-from-the-legaltech-fund/
Hiring/New Hires
◾️ Artificial Lawyer reports:
“In a surprise move, Jeremy Coleman, who was most recently Director of Innovation at Norton Rose Fulbright and well known in the legal tech world, has jumped ship to CLM and AI pioneer ContractPodAi.
“The company also made several other key hires – see list below.https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2025/07/10/contractpodai-hires-nrfs-jeremy-coleman/
Member Introductions/Questions
◾️ New community member, Nyasha Karata, introduces himself to the community: “Currently building Lysp, an AI billing tool that helps law firms get paid faster by creating compliant, accurate, and easy to understand bills and invoices. Law firms often waste time going back and forth with clients and outside counsel due to unclear or non-compliant bills, which delays payments and slows down cash flow and kills client trust. With Lysp, you simply describe the work done and it handles the rest from writing line items, pricing, allocating disbursements, and ensuring compliance, all in under a minute.”
◾️ Here new LTSF’er, Garrison English, introduces himself and his work: “I’m an attorney and entrepreneur dedicated to modernizing legal education and practice through technology. As Co-Founder of Law School AI, I help law students study smarter with AI-driven tool and personalized legal learning methods. At The English Law Firm, I guide businesses through formation, contracts, and dispute resolution. I thrive at the intersection of law, innovation, and client service—building platforms and firms that deliver efficiency, transparency, and peace of mind.”
Partnerships/Business Development
From the Litera/Fireman press release today, July 9, 2025:
"CHICAGO, July 9 - Litera, a global leader in legal technology solutions, has announced the launch of Foundation Value Accelerator by Fireman, an Epiq Company, a new accelerated implementation package that enables law firms to fully operationalize Litera Foundation within just 12 weeks. With an emphasis on user adoption, including comprehensive training and enablement programs that align with individual firm’s data and business strategies, Fireman’s Foundation Value Accelerator provides a proven, low-risk integration path built on tested methodology to enable faster and easier implementation of Foundation. This development follows last year’s strategic partnership designed to facilitate seamless implementation of Litera Foundation with more assured results."
The entire press release can be found at this link: https://www.litera.com/newslinks/litera-and-fireman-launch-foundation-value-accelerator-provide-action-intelligence-just-12-weeks
◾️ The first part of a two-part series from Legaltech News about law firm AO Shearman’s commercial relationship with legal tech scale-up, Harvey.
“As part of the collaboration [between Harvey and AO Shearman, the law firm] also entered into what Karen Contoudis Buzard, the firm’s U.S. head of the markets innovation group, called a “revenue-sharing arrangement” with Harvey, whereby A&O Shearman can license the agentic AI tools it co-developed to its clients and other firms.”
https://www.law.com/legaltechnews/2025/07/09/what-ao-shearmans-revenue-sharing-arrangement-with-harvey-says-about-ais-market-disruption/
Product Development
◾️ From the press release issued today by EvenUp, the AI-for-PI-law legal tech company:
"Francisco, CA – July 8, 2025 – EvenUp, the category leader in AI for personal injury (PI) law, today announced two new products that push the boundaries of legal technology: AI Playbooksand Voice Agent, alongside major enhancements to its rapidly growing AI Drafts™ product suite."
Further excerpts from the press release:
"Now part of [EvenUp's] The Claims Intelligence Platform™, AI Playbooks reads your case files and pulls out the insights you need every time you upload new documents—equipping firms to make faster, smarter decisions across their entire caseload."
"Now in Early Access, Voice Agent is a first-of-its-kind conversational AI built to support PI firms across the entire case lifecycle, starting with care management."
The entire press release can be found at this link: https://network-295075.mn.co/posts/87271522?utm_source=manual
◾️ Artificial Lawyer reports:
“Thomson Reuters has launched ‘CoCounsel Knowledge Search’, a new AI-driven capability which lets you search and navigate content repositories. It can access content from HighQ, iManage, NetDocuments, SharePoint, OneDrive, Thomson Reuters’ own content from Westlaw and Practical Law, and third-party sources, they said.
“TR added that this addressed ‘the widespread challenge of scattered documents across multiple systems’ and so CoCounsel Knowledge Search enables users to ‘efficiently search, access, and manage content across their organization from multiple repositories, seamlessly’.”
https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2025/07/09/thomson-reuters-launches-cocounsel-knowledge-search/
◾️ Latest Legaltech News’ legal tech rundown:
https://www.law.com/legaltechnews/2025/07/11/legaltech-rundown-relativity-launches-gen-ai-products-in-asian-markets-robin-launches-new-contract-platform-and-more/
Purchasing/Using Legal Tech
◾️ From the Aderant press release today, July 7, 2025:
"ATLANTA, GA – July 7, 2025– Aderant, a leading global provider of legal business management software, has announced that Miles & Stockbridge, an Am Law 200 law firm with more than 200 lawyers and offices in Maryland, Washington, D.C., Virginia and New York, has chosen its Expert Sierra cloud-based platform to further transform their operations and supercharge efficiency. With the flexibility and scalability of this robust cloud platform, the law firm will also be able to unify financial, operational, and practice management data to deliver real-time insights through AI-powered Stridyn Analytics."
The entire press release can be found at this link: https://network-295075.mn.co/posts/87203731?utm_source=manual
◾️ Reporting from Artificial Lawyer:
“A new study by LexisNexis, conducted for them by Forrester, and using a model inhouse legal team of a hypothetical $10 billion company, found that if they were using AI tools at scale internally it could reduce work sent to law firms by 13%, based on the volume of matters handled.
“Other key findings included:
“‘A 25% reduction in annual time spent advising the business on legal inquiries’ (i.e. advising the business the inhouse team is within).
And, ‘Annual time savings of 50% for paralegals on administrative tasks’ (i.e. paralegals employed by the inhouse team).”
Much more here: https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2025/07/08/ai-reduces-client-use-of-law-firms-by-13-study/
◾️ From Data to Decisions: How Lex Machina Transforms Litigation — A Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast episode with Carla Rydholm, GM and Head of Product at Lex Machina. Show notes here: https://network-295075.mn.co/posts/87277061?utm_source=manual and access to this podcast episode here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2454829/episodes/17471251
◾️ Exciting product development news from Legaltech Hub:
“You may notice something new when you visit Legaltech Hub today: underneath the main search bar, you’ll see a link for the LTH Navigator. Click on that and the search bar expands, allowing you to move from keyword searching to plain language queries.
“LTH Navigator is the first purpose-built legal tech AI chatbot. Grounded in data from across the entire LTH site, LTH Navigator can answer questions like:
“‘Is Harvey SOC 2 certified?’
‘What are the core differences between Jigsaw or StructureFlow?’
‘Does iManage have data hosting capabilities in Australia?’
‘What document automation solutions are suitable for midsize firms?’”
Entire announcement here: https://www.legaltechnologyhub.com/contents/introducing-lth-navigator-the-first-legal-tech-ai-assistant-is-live-today-on-legaltech-hub/
◾️ From the LawSites blog:
“A new survey of state courts reveals a striking paradox in the American judicial system: Even though courts face severe staffing shortages and operational strain, they remain reluctant to adopt generative artificial intelligence technologies that could provide significant relief.”
“The Thomson Reuters Institute’s third annual survey of state courts, conducted in partnership with the National Center for State Courts AI Policy Consortium” finds that “[d]espite these [shortages and operational] pressures, however, just 17% say their court is using gen AI today.”
https://www.lawnext.com/2025/07/u-s-state-courts-cautiously-approach-ai-despite-efficiency-promises-and-staffing-crises.html
Startup Life
◾️ Hey, VCs, here’s a well-argued case for your helping the startup leaders in your portfolio manage the inevitable stressfulness of their work. All from a former VC and now coach-to-VCs.
And, yes, VCs, you read that right. If you’re a VC who claims to be founder-friendly, helping startup leaders manage stress should be a core part of your job.
https://www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/blog/2025/7/9/this-is-not-fine-how-to-work-in-chaotic-times
Startup Management
◾️ Two lawyers. One idea. Zero tolerance for time-wasting tasks.
In this exclusive interview, we spoke with the co-founders of Uncover Legal, the female-led legal AI platform changing how lawyers think about automation.
Not as disruption, but as support.
From the AI “Junior Lawyer” to document-aware reasoning, this is legal tech with empathy.
Read the full interview here:
https://thelegalwire.ai/uncovering-legal-ai-how-two-lawyers-reimagined-what-legal-work-could-be/
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