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BRINGING YOU THE LATEST IN LEGAL TECH NEWS

TLTF & Friends in the News

• 🤠 Saddle up for the 4th annual TLTF Summit in Austin Hill Country, Nov 12–14! Request an invite to attend.

• 📣 We launched The LegalTech Lab, a new platform designed to back the boldest early-stage companies building the future of legal services. Built around our vision of Law Firm 2.0, The Lab will invest in and support founders reimagining how legal work is delivered, scaled, and accessed. Applications are open!

• 📄 We released three reports from our Legal Tech Summer Series in Park City, Utah.

  • The Future of Asset Management: How Legaltech is Redefining Risk and Reinventing Ops

  • The Future of Alternative Business Structures: Unlocking Innovation in Legal Services

  • The Future of Corporate Legal: From Cost Center to Strategic Catalyst

• 🚀 Check out Part II of our market map including 150+ early-stage companies building the future of litigation.

• 🎧 Season 2 of Legal(tech) Briefs is here! Zach Posner sat down with Tom Greenaway and Crispin Passmore to unpack ABS vs. MSO models, KPMG’s emerging law firm playbook, trends from tech to PE, lessons from England and Arizona’s 147 ABSs, and how these shifts could drive a tenfold expansion in legal services.

• 🚀 Truth Systems launches Charter, AI Governance agent to prevent the misuse of artificial intelligence in law firms.

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News from the World of Law AI & LegalTech

• Shark Tank Meets Legal Tech: Summer Associates Get Hands-On with AI Hackathon.

• Vibe Code Your Way to a Job: Meta Lets Candidates Use AI During Coding Tests.

  
  

 Privacy & Surveillance

• Digital Driver’s Licenses: Convenience at the Cost of Your Privacy?

• Pat-Downs Eliminated, Privacy Intact: AI Radar Screens Massive Crowds in Seconds.

  
  

 Legal System & Policy

• AI as a Lamborghini Without a Seatbelt:The ‘Hallucination’ Doctrine Hits Legal Ethics.

• Hackers Breach U.S. Court System: Judiciary Strengthens Cybersecurity Posture.

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Listen

• Legora CEO Max Junestrand tells Tech.eu why major law firms avoid Chinese LLMs, citing client trust and clarity concerns. (25 mins).

• Richard Susskind tells AAA’s Bridget Mary McCormack and Zach Abramowitz that legal value lies in outcomes, not process. (34 mins).

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Tanner’s Other Page Turners

• Google’s Healthcare AI Goes Full Frankenstein: invents a brain part that isn’t real.

• Outsmarting Mosquitoes: how a rare disease drug could make your blood deadly to bites.

• Not Your Grandma’s Wallet: Reserve Bank of Australia tests money that thinks, obeys or dies.

• Silicon Valley’s Modern Alchemy: fusion startup can turn mercury into gold.

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On The Road

👋🏻 Want to meet with a portfolio company or TLTF at one of the events below? Fill out this form.

• September 24-26, 2025 - Antidote at LVNx in Chicago, IL.

• September 28 - The Contract Network at SCRS Global Site Summit in Orlando, FL.

• Sept 29 - Oct 2 - Lexamica at LEX Summit in Salt Lake City, UT.

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About The LegalTech Fund We invest in companies transforming the world of law. This newsletter is put together by The team at The LegalTech Fund. Follow us on LinkedIn.