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.
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, the operative word is residency.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Why US Legal AI Tools Are a Bad Fit for Canadian Practice
Harvey, Hebbia, and the other US-hosted legal AI tools are excellent. They are also a Law 25 problem for Quebec firms and a professional-secrecy problem for the rest of Canada.