A useful way to think about a market is to notice what it has stopped arguing about. Two years ago, the legal AI conversation was mostly about whether the technology could do the work at all. Today, in the pieces
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Delhi High Court gives OpenAI an early fair-dealing win in ANI copyright fight
The Delhi High Court refused ANI’s request for an interim injunction against OpenAI, holding at the prima facie stage that storing ANI’s works to train ChatGPT’s underlying LLMs can fall within India’s Copyright Act Section 52(1)(a) fair-dealing/research exception. The court
US lawmakers introduce AI Kill Switch Act after OpenAI cyber incident
Representatives Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran have introduced the bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act, which would require developers of the most powerful AI systems to build in the technical ability to slow, suspend, or shut down their models. The Department
Entegrata hires Simpson Thacher AI leader to build law-firm AI enablement layer
Entegrata has appointed Andrew Baker, formerly director of applied AI at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, as its chief AI and data strategy officer. At Simpson Thacher, Baker led around 20 specialists and drove adoption of Harvey and DeepJudge. His hire
Alabama State Bar issues AI ethical guidance for lawyers
The Alabama State Bar has released “Artificial Intelligence Use: Best Practices Under Existing Professional Conduct Rules,” clarifying how existing duties under the Alabama Rules of Professional Conduct apply to AI tools rather than creating new obligations. It draws on ABA
Willkie and OpenAI deepen the “build-your-own legal AI” trend
Willkie announced a July 22 collaboration with OpenAI to roll out ChatGPT Enterprise firmwide and power proprietary Willkie Works platforms across legal, business, training, financial insights, private funds, and litigation workflows. The firm says Codex will also support its internal
Kirkland–Palantir deal puts private funds AI under the spotlight
Legaltech News published a July 22 analysis of Kirkland & Ellis’s reported partnership with Palantir to build a proprietary AI platform for private fund formation, side letters, documentation, and compliance obligations. The piece frames the deal as a market signal:
Vikk AI raises $4.2 million to scale attorney discovery and legal AI platform
Long Beach-based Vikk AI has raised $4.2 million across pre-seed and seed rounds to expand its AI-powered legal discovery platform and its sponsored lawyer advertising product. Investors include tax attorney Ronson Shamoun, injury attorney Joe Samo, and healthcare and pharma
Clifford Chance builds an AI-ready knowledge bank with Microsoft and Epiq
Clifford Chance launched an AI-enabled knowledge-management platform built with Microsoft and Epiq Advisory. The firm says it contains 400,000+ reclassified and summarized documents, with natural-language search, summarization, generative answers, smart tagging, and permissioned access controls for confidentiality. For lawyers, the
Sapphire Legal, ambient intelligence, and the underserved middle of the legal profession
Almost every legal AI product currently on the market shares a design assumption most users don’t even notice anymore: the intelligence sits behind a prompt.
You navigate to it, ask it a question, and evaluate what it returns. That model