Legal AI: what changed in June 2026

Thomson Reuters states the June CoCounsel Legal release gave U.S. customers early access to the next-generation experience and added cross-border research, citation-level verification, clause-library market expansion and other agentic capabilities.

Wordsmith states that financial-services legal teams use Wordsmith Agents for high-volume work and describes three use cases.

Leah states that it published a video for Agentic CLM Unified AI Powered Search, documenting search across Leah contract lifecycle management data.

Leah states that it published a Legal Helpdesk video for its Leah legal product, documenting an AI-assisted helpdesk workflow for legal users.

Smokeball states on June 22 that Archie AI for Word brings drafting, summarization, translation, matter context and prompt tools into Microsoft Word and Smokeball workflows. · models named: GPT, Claude, Gemini

Leah states that it published an Agentic CLM Smart Ingestion video, documenting a ContractPodAi product workflow for ingesting contract information in Leah Agentic CLM.

Harvey states that users can turn unstructured legal inputs into interactive timelines, entity charts, compliance matrices and dashboards.

LEGALFLY states that Collaborator Access opens the platform to business users as well as legal teams.

Definely states that Definely Draft is now Definely Read, changing the product name while keeping the same product for navigating and understanding complex contracts.

Harvey describes infrastructure changes using presigned URLs, asynchronous pipelines and fallback handling to make Vault uploads faster and more reliable.

Harvey states that its June updates added contracting workflow controls, larger document-review speed improvements and mobile capability.

LEGALFLY states that June updates added file generation from Discovery, multi-document translation and Review/playbook changes.

8am states on June 9 that new 8am IQ capabilities add image-to-text OCR in 8am MyCase and expand Case Assistant across matter information.

Wordsmith states that Community Skills is a shared library of legal skills built and tested by in-house legal teams.

Hebbia states that June updates included data partnerships, Matrix capabilities and workflow improvements across Chat, Projects and the platform.

Legora states that Lists lets users organize, assign and execute legal work inside the Legora aOS.

Harvey states that US case law content is available in Harvey so lawyers can use case law while producing insights and drafts.

CaseMark said the current platform was retiring and firms could move to a rebuilt platform with improved transcript chat and outputs. · models named: CaseMark

Clio states on June 24 that the Minnesota Board of Public Defense selects Vincent by Clio for deployment across all ten judicial districts, supporting public defenders and staff statewide. · firms named: Minnesota Board of Public Defense

Josef states on June 24 that adidas reviewed knowledge libraries and used Josef for compliance AI Q&A to make legal guidance accessible to a workforce of 65,000-plus. · models named: Microsoft Copilot, LLM APIs · firms named: adidas

LexisNexis states Willkie Farr & Gallagher selected Lexis+ with Protégé and Protégé APIs for firmwide use with its internal Wendell Intelligence AI orchestration platform. · firms named: Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Garfield Law states on June 22 that its AI-supported small-claim work helped a freelancer win at Wandsworth County Court, with £7,000 awarded and a counterclaim dismissed. · £7,000 as announced

Legora states that Holding Redlich partnered with Legora for Property and Corporate & Commercial teams after a pilot. · firms named: Holding Redlich

EvenUp published a Michael Kelly Injury Lawyers case study reporting faster medical-record review and larger recoveries after using EvenUp products. · models named: EvenUp AI Playbooks, Companion, Express Demands, AI Drafts · firms named: Michael Kelly Injury Lawyers

Legora states that Legance rolled out Legora firm-wide across practice areas after a three-month implementation. · firms named: Legance

Wordsmith states that Starling selected Wordsmith as the AI platform for its in-house legal team. · firms named: Starling

EvenUp published a Moet Law Group case study reporting increased case closures and settlement revenue after adopting EvenUp workflows. · models named: EvenUp Companion, EvenUp AI Drafts · firms named: Moet Law Group

Wordsmith states that Sage chose Wordsmith as the legal AI platform for its in-house legal team. · firms named: Sage

Legora states that Al Tamimi & Company partnered with Legora to advance Arabic-first legal AI in the Middle East. · firms named: Al Tamimi & Company

Litera states in a June 5 customer story that Cvent used Kira during an acquisition to extract key information from 360 contracts in minutes. · firms named: Cvent

EvenUp published a Lerner & Rowe case study reporting faster case progression, increased operational capacity, and more policy-limit recoveries. · models named: EvenUp Proactive Personal Injury AI Platform, PLAAS · firms named: Lerner & Rowe Injury Attorneys

Legora states that Dua Associates rolled out Legora across offices and practice areas in India after a platform evaluation. · firms named: Dua Associates

Spellbook states that Autonomous Contract Management is an AI system for contract work end to end, adding an early-access product line alongside review, drafting, comparison and playbook tools.

LexisNexis announces a Middle East expansion for Lexis+ with Protégé, including localized legal content, AI capabilities, practical guidance and regional workflows for legal practitioners across the GCC.

Litify states on June 23 that LitifyAI Instant Demands uses Supio to generate demand narratives and cited exhibit packets inside Litify workflows. · models named: Supio

Filevine states on June 22 that LOIS Legal Research helps legal teams research from law, cases, internal notes and documents while keeping attorney control over outputs.

LexisNexis Canada announces general availability of Lexis+ with Protégé, replacing Lexis+ AI and adding a new interface for legal questions, documents, content and prebuilt workflows.

Litera states on June 17 that Clean+ is the cloud-hosted evolution of Metadact Server and is available as a standalone package and in Draft Advanced.

Reveal announced EMEA availability of Reveal Private Deployment, aji GenAI review, and Logikcull government transparency capabilities. · models named: aji GenAI

Legora states that the Legora Agent became available to all customers inside the Legora aOS.

Ontra states that its MCP server reached general availability and brings real-time fund data from Ontra into Claude and ChatGPT for private markets workflows. · models named: Claude, ChatGPT

Filevine states on June 2 that LOIS Console is its first product for accelerating phases of a legal case, with an initial focus on litigation workflows. · firms named: Kopka Law Group, Smith and Lee Personal Injury Lawyers

Legora states that Monitors scans global regulation and surfaces changes inside the Legora aOS.

Legora states that its legal analysis and research AI will pair with Ironclad across the contracting lifecycle. · firms named: Ironclad

Harvey states that Harvey is available as an agent inside Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Cowork. · firms named: Microsoft

Visalaw.ai announced a direct integration with Mitratech INSZoom so case data flows into Visalaw AI drafting and research tools. · firms named: Mitratech INSZoom

Legora states that InfoTrack and Legora connected selected Australian legal, property and compliance data to AI-assisted workflows. · firms named: InfoTrack

Legora states that Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory US coverage will be available within Legora workflows from early Q3. · firms named: Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory US

Lupl states that Harvey users can access Lupl from Harvey’s Connector Library to search matters and create tasks. · firms named: Harvey

Legora states that lawyers, bankers and dealmakers can apply Legora AI to deals on Intralinks DealCentre AI. · firms named: SS&C Intralinks

Harvey states that users can pull company financials, deal history and market data from PitchBook directly into Harvey. · firms named: PitchBook

LexisNexis states Protégé extends Microsoft 365 Copilot with legal answers, drafting support and legal insights grounded in LexisNexis content without leaving Microsoft applications. · models named: Microsoft 365 Copilot

Midpage states its new plugin turns OpenAI Codex into a litigation associate by connecting Codex to Midpage legal research and drafting capabilities. · models named: OpenAI Codex

LexisNexis states its Microsoft collaboration makes Protégé available through Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams, bringing legal drafting, summarization, analysis and research into Microsoft 365 workflows. · models named: Microsoft 365 Copilot

Legora states that Chelsea Football Club announced Legora as an official partner. · firms named: Chelsea Football Club

Clio states on June 24 that it is partnering with Perplexity to make Vincent by Clio available in Computer for Counsel through a Model Context Protocol connector. · models named: Perplexity

Legora states that Cooley GO Lab will debut with Y Combinator’s summer 2026 cohort using Legora Portal. · firms named: Cooley, Y Combinator

Consilio and Eudia announced a strategic partnership combining Eudia Expert Digital Twins and AI agents with Consilio legal services expertise. · models named: Eudia Expert Digital Twins, Aurora Legal AI · firms named: Eudia

Wordsmith states that Lawyers On Demand, a Consilio company, partnered with Wordsmith on AI-enabled managed services for in-house legal teams. · firms named: Lawyers On Demand, Consilio

Within states that it joined forces with Cognida.ai on AI agents and context for enterprise workflows. · firms named: Cognida.ai

Legora states that AKD became a Lighthouse Partner for AI-driven client-service and portal work. · firms named: AKD

Everlaw announced a strategic partnership with Morae to embed Everlaw’s litigation and AI capabilities in Morae-led legal workflows and services. · firms named: Morae

Draftwise states that its technology partnership with Egnyte brings AI-powered contract intelligence into secure document workflows for legal drafting, review and negotiation. · firms named: Egnyte

Ontra status RSS records Planned Maintenance on 2026-06-27. The feed text says: The scheduled maintenance has been completed. Jun 27 , 17:00 UTC In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates

Smokeball’s status history reports scheduled system maintenance on June 11 and marks the maintenance completed at 23:41 CDT.

Smokeball’s status history reports a June 8 incident titled delays with activity reporting and marks the incident resolved the same day.

The Harvey AI (Counsel AI Corporation) status API records 'AU Region - File Uploads & Semantic Search Degraded' as resolved with impact minor, created 2026-06-03T01:56:47Z and resolved 2026-06-03T06:11:30Z.

Ironclad status API records a minor incident, Bulk Document Download, Dashboard Exports and Preview Degraded in NA1 Production, created on 2026-06-03 and resolved at 2026-06-03T20:10:14Z.

The Wordsmith AI Ltd status API records 'Some Repositories and Skills not loading in Wordsmith' as resolved with impact major, created 2026-06-01T11:22:57Z and resolved 2026-06-04T08:43:36Z.

Clio states on June 15 that it launches Legal AI Accelerator, a free education and certification program, and commits to train 25,000 legal professionals on legal AI by ClioCon 2026.

LexisNexis launches AI Prompt Essentials, a no-cost self-paced certification course for legal professionals covering prompts, output evaluation and repeatable AI-driven legal drafting, analysis and research workflows. · models named: LLMs

Ontra states that it achieved ISO 42001 certification for responsible AI management, describing the certification as part of its security and trust program.

Harvey states that it achieved ISO 42001 certification for AI management-system governance practices.

Definely states that it achieved ISO 42001 certification for AI management, positioning the standard as part of its AI risk governance and compliance controls.

Harvey states that post-training GLM-5.1 produced benchmark improvements on Harvey’s Legal Agent Benchmark by rubric pass rate. · models named: GLM-5.1 · firms named: Applied Compute

Thomson Reuters states its 2026 Future of Professionals report surveyed professionals on AI implementation gaps, weekly AI use, unsanctioned tools, client revenue risk and talent pressure across legal, tax, audit, accounting, compliance and trade work.

LinkSquares states that its Legal AI Maturity Matrix is a guide and roadmap for legal teams adopting AI in legal workflows.

Harvey states that it created a benchmark to evaluate agents on end-to-end contract negotiation workflows.

Summize states that it acquired key personnel and proprietary assets from InnoLaw Group to expand deployment expertise for AI contracting solutions. · firms named: InnoLaw Group

DeepIP states that it acquired PatentMaker to build an AI platform for patent drafting and prosecution in Europe. · firms named: PatentMaker

Bloomberg Industry Group states that it acquired Regology, adding AI-driven regulatory change management capabilities to Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Tax and Bloomberg Government offerings. · firms named: Bloomberg Industry Group

Legora states that it acquired Cadastral for commercial-real-estate legal intelligence and a New York engineering hub. · firms named: Cadastral

Harvey states that Claude Sonnet 5 is available in Harvey for legal accuracy and output-quality gains. · models named: Claude Sonnet 5, Anthropic Sonnet 5

Luminance states that Luna Crescent is the first model in its proprietary vertical AI model series for contract intelligence. · models named: Luna Crescent

Litera states on June 16 that Claude Opus 4.8 and Claude Sonnet 4.6 are generally available in Lito for chat and Studio workflows. · models named: Claude Opus 4.8, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude Opus 4.7, GPT

LexisNexis publishes a CEO interview post about legal AI adoption, emphasizing trust, validation, legal workflows and firsthand professional judgment when using AI for research, drafting and review.

LexisNexis publishes a CTO article describing a shift from chat answers to agentic workflows that research, draft, verify citations and ask follow-up questions toward work product.

Lexlegis.ai publishes a founder note responding to the Supreme Court of India draft regulations for AI in courts, discussing the proposed regulatory approach and feedback window.

Harvey states that it is expanding with a team in Milan, adding European presence for customers and product work.

Legora states that it is opening Madrid, Milan and Paris offices and establishing a London engineering hub.

Harvey states that it opened a Singapore office as part of its Asia-Pacific customer support and regional expansion work.

Wordsmith states that it raised a $70 million Series B, taking total funding to $100 million. · US$70,000,000 as announced

Norm Ai states on its site timeline that it raised a $120 million Series C at a $1.2 billion valuation led by Khosla Ventures. · firms named: Khosla Ventures · US$120,000,000 as announced

Legora states that it introduced consumption-based pricing alongside the launch of Agent Pro.

Ontra states that it promoted Andy Lujan to Chief Financial Officer after he joined the company in 2017 as its only finance and administrative employee.