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💰 Newcode announced its Series A funding, bringing total capital raised to $20 million, with backing from OnDean Forward, The LegalTech Fund, Relativity, and Antiportfolio Ventures. The funding will support its configurable AI harness for legal and its vision for firm owned intelligence.
📹 Lexamica CEO Gabriel Stiritz sat down with Morgan & Morgan Managing Partner Daniel Morgan on The Relay to unpack how the country’s largest personal injury firm manages referrals at scale and turns referral infrastructure into a growth engine.
📥 Candle AI launched Candle Work, bringing a team of workflow agents directly into the inbox to help legal professionals manage the tasks hidden across hundreds of daily emails.
🎨 NLPatent is now Clerq, marking its evolution from AI powered patent research to agentic workflows that can take research assignments from start to finish, delivering analysis and verifiable citations while keeping attorney judgement at the centre.
📈 Steno appointed court reporting veteran Jon Hefler as VP of Growth, strengthening its leadership team as it expands across the AmLaw 200 and enterprise legal market following its $49M Series C.
💰 Harvey raised $550 million at a $15.5 billion valuation, co led by Diffusion and Lightspeed Venture Partners, to accelerate its work helping legal and professional services teams build and own their intelligence at scale.
🚢 Our portfolio companies have been busy shipping:
Navys launched its Intelligent Fundraising Tracker, powered by AI agent Sam, which turns email threads into an automatically updated view of commitments, KYC, LPA comments, subscription agreements and side letters, with auditable updates linked back to their source.
ECFX introduced its Model Context Protocol server, enabling firms to query operational data using natural language and surface insights across notice volumes, jurisdictions, automation and time savings.
Newcase launched Fact Extraction, helping litigation teams identify key facts across depositions, medical records and case documents, with every fact linked directly to its source for verification.
Scan Logic expanded APSync with new automation, connectivity and financial visibility capabilities, giving law firms greater control over accounts payable workflows.
Flo added in-the-moment reviewer support to Flo Performance Management, helping professional development teams improve the quality of performance reviews and deliver more useful feedback and coaching.
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AI & LEGALTECH
After the Hype?: Coming out of ILTACON 2026, senior legaltech leaders say the real story wasn't new features, it was firms finally confronting governance, data quality, and proof over promises. Worth noting: our portfolio company Newcode is building exactly this layer. Its configurable AI harness lets firms plug their own systems, models, and guardrails into one environment, so the intelligence stays firm-owned rather than vendor-owned.
Legal AI Gets Bespoke: Major law firms are moving beyond off-the-shelf AI tools and investing in customised systems as proprietary AI becomes a new point of competitive differentiation.
OpenAI Moves Deeper Into Legal: OpenAI is reportedly exploring deeper integrations with legal software, potentially allowing lawyers to complete more legal workflows directly through ChatGPT.
PRIVACY & SURVEILLANCE
'Feeding the Beast': A new lawsuit alleges Meta's smart glasses transmit imagery and audio for AI model training despite the company's privacy assurances to users.
Court Records Detail Clearview AI's Role in ICE Protest Surveillance: Newly public court filings show facial recognition results were folded into broader intelligence files during a federal immigration operation, raising First Amendment questions.
Surveillance Becomes a Political Issue: Flock Safety’s licence plate camera network is facing growing political and civil liberties scrutiny over the scale and potential misuse of AI-enabled surveillance.
The Algorithm Goes to Court: Around 241,000 Uber drivers are represented in European legal action challenging how algorithms determine pay and allocate work.
LEGAL SYSTEM & POLICY
California's AI Filing Law Heads to Newsom: SB 574 would require attorneys to disclose and verify AI-generated content in court filings, with the governor's decision due by mid-October.
Australia Moves on Mandatory AI Disclosure: The Fair Work Commission ordered a cost penalty over AI-generated legal advice it found plainly wrong and announced a mandatory AI disclosure rule for litigants starting October 20.
The Federal-State AI Standoff, Explained: With 29 states now regulating AI and no federal statute in place, the fight over preemption continues to shape compliance planning for anyone operating across state lines.
Listen
🎧 LawNext, Sept 1: Bob Ambrogi talks with Pablo Arredondo, the Casetext cofounder, about his move to Clio as SVP of Judiciary and what it means for AI reaching into the courts themselves.
🎧 Careers and the Business of Law, Maged Helmy, CEO and Co-Founder of Newcode, discusses why law firms need their own AI infrastructure, the importance of private knowledge and orchestration, and how firms can build lasting competitive advantage with AI..
🎧 Technically Legal, Emily Logan Stedman, Partner at Husch Blackwell, discusses alternative fee arrangements, AI-driven efficiency, and what changing technology could mean for the billable hour and law firm economics.
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