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🤓 The TLTF Summit is getting close to capacity! If you’d like to join us this year, request an invitation.
🎉 Steno has appointed Brian Lee to its Board of Directors bringing his experience as a serial entrepreneur and investor to support the company's next phase of growth.
🌍 We've partnered with Law.com, Harvey, and leaders across the legal industry on Pathways: Future of Law 2040, exploring how AI could reshape legal business models over the next 15 years. Drawing on insights from 100+ industry leaders, the initiative maps four plausible futures for the profession, with findings set to be unveiled at our Summit in Scottsdale this November.
🗓️ What If We're Thinking About the Future of Law All Wrong? Join us live on Wednesday, October 21 at 11 AM ET for a first look at insights from Pathways: Future of the Business of Law 2040, ahead of the full findings being unveiled at the TLTF Summit in November.
📹 Build or Buy? The AI Infrastructure Dilemma: On the latest In Studio, Tanner Rogers sits down with Infodash's Ted Theodoropoulos and Kameron Berget, alongside Gowling WLG's Al Hounsell, to discuss the build versus buy dilemma for law firms investing in AI and knowledge infrastructure, from data ownership to long-term value.
🎙️ Building Trust in Consumer Legaltech: On In Studio, LegalZoom Co-Founder Brian Liu and HelloPrenup Founder Julia Rodgers join us to discuss what it takes to build and scale consumer legaltech companies. From earning consumer trust and getting market timing right to the growing role of AI, the conversation explores the realities of making legal services more accessible.
Our portfolio companies have been busy shipping:
🚢 Steno launched Litigation Genius in open beta, an AI-powered workspace that brings deposition transcripts, pleadings, medical records, discovery responses, and other case materials into one place. Built into the Steno Firm Dashboard, it enables litigation teams to analyse case files, generate timelines, and receive answers with direct citations to source documents.
🚢 BlackCloak introduced two new solutions to strengthen executive protection. BlackCloak Perimeter brings cyber and physical security together, while Impersonation Protection with Circle of Trust extends deepfake protection beyond executives to their trusted networks, addressing the growing risks of identity impersonation and targeted threats.
News in Five
AI & LEGALTECH
AT&T Rethinks Outside Counsel: AT&T is using AI and its 38-person LegalEdge team to bring more legal work in-house, reducing its reliance on law firms for routine tasks and challenging traditional billing models.
The AI Governance Gap: New research suggests 33% of surveyed UK law firms are already using AI without formal policies, exposing a growing gap between adoption, accountability and risk management.
PRIVACY & SURVEILLANCE
AI Is Listening at Work: Co-op Legal Services is using AI to assess employee calls against more than 50 metrics, raising questions about workplace surveillance, privacy and the monitoring of sensitive legal conversations.
The Business of Mass Surveillance: Flock Safety's network of more than 120,000 licence plate readers is raising questions about how vehicle tracking data is collected, stored and accessed, as calls grow for stronger privacy protections and oversight.
LEGAL SYSTEM & POLICY
California Makes AI Disclosure Law: California has signed SB 574 into law, requiring attorneys to disclose generative AI use in court documents from 2027 and restricting arbitrators from delegating decisions to AI.
Publishers Push Back on AI Training: The New York Times and The Economist have joined a growing publisher coalition seeking greater control over how AI companies use copyrighted content for model training.
Listen
🎧 LawNext: Noah Waisberg on Selling Kira and Building Zuva: Bob Ambrogi speaks with Kira Systems cofounder Noah Waisberg about the challenges of selling a legaltech company to Litera and how that experience inspired his next venture, Zuva.
🎧 Legal's Moment to Move Beyond AI Experimentation: Salesforce President and CLO Sabastian Niles argues that the era of AI pilots is over, challenging law firms to move beyond experimentation and rethink how they deliver value to clients.
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WHERE TO FIND OUR PORTFOLIO COMPANIES
October 26th-27th | Boston, MA Candle AI, ClioCon October 26th-28th | National Harbor, MD Trestle, IRMI Construction Risk Conference October 27th-29th | San Diego, California Candle AI, LEX Summit October 28th-31st | Washington, DC Clerq, American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) 2nd-4th November | Austin, TX Clerq, IP Dealmakers Forum 16th-18th | Scottsdale, AZ The LegalTech Fund, TLTF Summit |
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Entegrata is hiring an Applied AI + NLP Engineer
Candle AI is hiring a QA Test Automation & AI Evaluation Engineer
Newcode is hiring a Senior Legal Engineer
Steno is hiring a Director of Strategic Operations: Litigation Support, Audience Marketing Manager: Court Reporter Community
BlackCloak are hiring for multiple roles
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