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BRINGING YOU THE LATEST IN LEGALTECH NEWS

TLTF & Friends in the News

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• 🗺️ Check out our Early-Stage Intellectual Property Tech Market Map.

• 🎉 Newcode.ai raised a $6.5 million seed round to bring the world’s first truly AI-native operating system to the legal industry, backed by us.

• 🎉 Newcase.ai launched a self-serve platform allowing users to access features like deposition reviews and medical chronologies instantly without a demo.

• 🌟 The LegalTech Lab Spotlight: We're loving Warrant's latest video.

• 🎙 ICYMI: Tanner Rogers and Vivek Rao, Co-Founder and CEO of Foundation AI, discussed why the “first mile” is the hidden bottleneck in high volume litigation. Check out this episode of In Studio.

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News in Five

AI & LEGALTECH

• The machines organized: The first AI parliament for machines has $1,000 to spend.

• OpenAI launched GPT-5.4: This thinking model is capable of natively controlling computers to automate complex legal and financial workflows.

• AI on the stand: Quinn Emanuel developed an AI platform that organizes discovery data for real-time use during trials, allowing lawyers to query the system for gems of evidence while questioning witnesses.

  
  

PRIVACY & SURVEILLANCE

• Meta’s Human-in-the-Loop: Meta reportedly used offshore contractors in Kenya to review smart glasses footage to manually label and refine data for AI training.

• The Metadata Trap: Law firms that master the invisible risks of metadata and data retention will define the future of trustworthy lawyering.

• TikTok snubs encryption: Security risks cited as platform ditches industry-standard privacy.

  
  

LEGAL SYSTEM & POLICY

• AI is not your lawyer: Attorney-client privilege will generally not attach to client communications with an AI platform.

• If a human didn't create art, the law won't protect it. The US Supreme Court declined to hear a major case on whether AI-generated art can be copyrighted, upholding

• Consolidation incoming: Legalweek attendees predicted market contraction as Gen AI startups struggle to scale.

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Listen

• 🎧 Mary Shen O’Carroll, Bill Ryan (Senior VP and CCO at AT&T) and Ava Guo (AVP and Senior Legal Counsel) on the Pearls On, Gloves Off podcast. (48 mins)

• 🎧 Stephen Dooley, Director of Electronic Discovery & Litigation Support at Sullivan & Cromwell on BDO’s Legal Tech Talk podcast. (43 mins)

• 🎧 Bob Ambrogi, Lawyer, Journalist and founder of LawSites/LawNext on Clio’s Matters podcast. (54 mins)

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Tanner's Page Turners

• 📖 A place where I can dunk a basketball? Scientists found a gravitational anomaly in Antartica

• 📖 Slayed Demons with Human Cells: The Rise of the Biological Computer

• 📖 All Grown Up: Punch the Orphan Macaque Made Friends

• 📖 Your Morning Commute Upgrade: FAA Greenlighted Flying Taxi Testing in 26 States

Better Together: Legalweek

From our founder breakfast co-hosted with Anthropic to our NASDAQ announcement in Times Square, we loved our time last week in NYC!

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SEASON 3 OF Legal(tech) Briefs is live! Check out new episodes hosted Carly Levin, Partner of Strategic Initiatives: AI, Regulation, and the Modern Chief Legal Officer ft. Anna Alvarado-Pearce Building a Client-First Innovation Engine ft Shruti Ajitsaria The Wild West States Rewriting Legal Rules ft Natalie Knowlton

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On the Road

WHERE TO FIND OUR PORTFOLIO COMPANIES

March 18 | The Greenbrier, WV LawPro.ai at Virginia Trial Lawyers Association March 18-20 | Salt Lake City, UT Trestle at ABC Convention March 22-24 | Arlington, VA NLPatent at IPWatchdog LIVE March 23-26 | San Francisco, CA BlackCloak at RSAC March 25 | Scottsdale, AZ LawPro.ai at Fireproof Coaching Summit

March 26-28 | San Diego, CA Silent Witness at TBI Med Legal March 30-April 1 | Las Vegas, NV Warrant at Fintech Meetup April 12-15 | National Harbor, MD ECFX at ALA Annual Conference and Expo April 13-14 | Toronto, Canada BlackCloak at FS-ISAC 2026 FInCyber Today November 16-18 | Scottsdale, AZ Everyone is at the TLTF Summit!

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• BlackCloak is hiring a Principal Product Manager (AI & Innovation) and Senior Cloud Engineer.

• Infodash is hiring a Vice President of Product.

• Lexamica is hiring an Enterprise Account Executive.

• Priori Legal is hiring a Director, AI & Talent Innovation.

• Trestle is hiring a Senior Software Engineer – Full Stack (Toronto).

• Warrant is hiring a Chief of Staff.

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