Anthropic's top lawyer says AI will kill the legal profession's dreaded billable hour

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Jeff Bleich, now Anthropic's general counsel, thinks artificial intelligence will usher in the death of the billable hour business model for law firms.

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$8 billion legal behemoth Harvey is getting into the startup investing game

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Harvey cofounders Winston Weinberg and Gabe Pereyra.

Harvey

AI legal giant Legora lands its first acquisition, and the great legal-tech rollup continues

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Max Junestrand

Legora

Docusign's former CEO took a risk jumping into an older corner of legal tech. The numbers suggest it's working.

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Daniel Springer

Ironclad

Anthropic's latest AI tool was seen by the legal software industry as a 'shot across the bow.' Here's what it means.

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei

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This consultant advised Big Law at McKinsey. Now Sequoia is backing his AI startup for in-house lawyers.

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Nick Fleisher.

Sandstone

How can lawyers stop AI's hallucinations? More AI, of course.

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It's hard to stop a curious legal associate from pasting a draft into a free, browser-based chatbot like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.

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Harvey's $8 billion question: How much money does it actually save lawyers?

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Winston Weinberg

Harvey

A 30-year-old lawyer quit Big Law. Days later, she had a term sheet to raise $2.5 million for an AI law firm.

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Logan Brown

Soxton

New York is the San Francisco of legal tech

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Max Junestrand

Legora

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