Legal Tech
Published articles connected to the Legal Tech tag.
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- 01Topics in AI
Relativity Bought Gavel. Drafting Was the Easy Half
Relativity acquired document-automation company Gavel on June 12 to push AI drafting into Microsoft Word. Drafting is the tractable half of real estate legal work. Reading the inbound file is the half that still breaks.
8 min read - 02Topics in AI
Canada Has an AI Strategy Now. Read the Data Fine Print
Carney's federal AI strategy is heavy on compute, adoption, and sovereignty, and light on binding rules. For a small firm picking software in 2026, residency is a procurement question, not a new blanket legal duty.
8 min read - 03Topics in AI
Harvey Is Inside Microsoft 365. Niche Tools Still Win
Harvey now answers when you @mention it in Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Litera put its CRM across the suite. Vertical tools that own a workflow end to end still have a moat the platforms cannot reach.
8 min read - 04Topics in AI
Claude Opus 4.7 in Microsoft 365: Why the Office Suite Just Became the AI Battleground
Anthropic shipped Claude into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook in May 2026 and overtook OpenAI in enterprise share. Microsoft 365 is now the platform legal AI runs on.
14 min read - 05Topics in AI
Word Add-Ins Will Not Eat Every Legal Workflow
May 2026 was the month AI moved into Word for real. The narrative says every legal workflow goes back into the document. It is half right.
12 min read - 06Topics in AI
The Canadian Small Firm AI Stack in 2026
A practical roundup of the AI tools small Canadian firms are actually running in 2026 for drafting, research, intake, and entity work. With prices, gotchas, and what is missing.
9 min read - 07Topics in AI
Assessing US Legal AI Tools for Canadian Practice
Foreign-hosted legal AI requires a careful assessment of data flows, privacy and professional secrecy. Canadian hosting can help, but it does not settle those questions.
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