Legal AI: what changed in July 2026

Wordsmith states that Privacy Office supports records of processing, DPIAs and DSAR work.

LinkSquares states that agentic CLM applies AI agents to contract lifecycle management tasks across intake, review, workflow automation and contract intelligence.

Wordsmith states that private-capital legal teams can use agents for side-letter reviews, MFN matrixing and due diligence.

Harvey states that infrastructure changes helped scale document processing while maintaining performance and reliability.

Midpage states it shipped a complete, versioned U.S. law library covering statutes, regulations, constitutions, executive orders and agency guidance for all states, D.C. and federal law.

NetDocuments states on July 23 that Tabular Review converts tables and lists across documents into structured data that users can query and analyze.

Wordsmith states that Redline Review reviews first-party paper and returns marked-up documents for legal teams.

Harvey states that July updates addressed complex reasoning, document reviews with fewer manual steps and expanded mobile work.

Litera states on July 17 that Kira Grid Chat adds cross-document natural-language Q&A inside Kira Analysis Grid with answers grounded in validated extraction data.

Paxton’s article states Secure Matter Collaboration lets authorized team members access the same case files, drafts and outputs for a shared matter without reuploading documents or sharing logins.

Descrybe publishes a resource describing Assistant Connection, Workflow Pack, MCP connector and Python SDK paths for adding Descrybe Legal Engine to ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or custom tools. · models named: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity

NetDocuments states on July 13 that it brings its legal context graph experience to corporate legal departments so AI work can draw on governed organizational context.

Hebbia states that its connector library view lets customers see every connected data source in one place.

DeepJudge states that SuperSearch extends firm-wide search to support cross-matter analysis and decision-ready insights.

NetDocuments states on July 9 that six AI-powered apps join ndMAX Studio for trademark prosecution and plaintiff-litigation workflows.

Wordsmith states that payments legal teams can use three Wordsmith AI agents for rules-heavy payments workflows.

CaseMark introduced Insight Pass, a pre-draft AI workflow step that asks framing questions before producing legal work product. · models named: Insight Pass

Hebbia states that July updates added skill creation, editing and sharing, additional file types and workflow changes.

Litera states on July 1 that its June 2026 platform release delivers five enhancements including cloud redline rendering sets, Clean+ availability and Lito changes.

vLex support release notes list July 2026 updates adding firm-governed reusable Skills and Persistent Memory that retains user preferences and prior work across sessions under account retention policy.

Legora states that Veritas Legal adopted Legora as its legal AI platform after an evaluation. · firms named: Veritas Legal

LinkSquares states that The E.W. Scripps Company uses LinkSquares to manage active agreements and reduce contract risk for its publishing and media business. · firms named: The E.W. Scripps Company

Luminance states that Community Fibre selected its AI platform to centralize contract management and procurement operations. · firms named: Community Fibre

EvenUp published a Schalk, Ciaccio & Khan case study describing Companion-assisted medical-record review and demand-prep efficiency gains. · models named: EvenUp Companion · firms named: Schalk, Ciaccio & Khan

Wordsmith states that Selfridges selected Wordsmith AI for legal and privacy team work. · firms named: Selfridges

Luminance states that Bulla Dairy Foods adopted its AI platform to manage routine agreements and contracting work. · firms named: Bulla Dairy Foods

Docusign states that Vestwell uses Docusign and Salesforce for agreement packages and client onboarding, including Docusign Contract Lifecycle Management. · firms named: Vestwell, Salesforce

Legora states that DKSH selected Legora as its agentic AI platform for legal professionals. · firms named: DKSH

Summize states that it will be deployed across Kroenke Sports & Entertainment’s portfolio and continue supporting The Kroenke Group for contract operations. · firms named: Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, The Kroenke Group

Josef states on July 8 that Adelaide University is building a legal concierge, AI Q&A tools and self-service contract tools using Josef. · firms named: Adelaide University

Legora states that Crowell & Moring reported firmwide Legora usage results after launch in January 2026. · firms named: Crowell & Moring LLP

EvenUp published an Ostroff Godshall case study reporting reduced discovery drafting time, more complaint filings, and doubled demand output. · models named: EvenUp AI Drafts, Express Demands · firms named: Ostroff Godshall Injury and Accident Lawyers

Legora states that Fasken entered a strategic partnership and firmwide rollout of Legora for client work. · firms named: Fasken

Legora states that Arthur Cox LLP partnered with Legora to scale AI-enabled legal services. · firms named: Arthur Cox LLP

Josef states on July 2 that Frontline Justice begins rolling out Frontline Q in Arizona, Texas and Alaska to help people navigate SNAP eligibility rules. · firms named: Frontline Justice

Luminance states that Interfood uses its platform to build a more scalable legal function for contract management. · firms named: Interfood

CaseMark announced CaseMark Source as the official platform name and described new synchronized video, transcript-package, self-service, and workflow marketplace capabilities. · models named: CaseMark Source

Casepoint launched an MCP Server enabling approved AI models and agents to connect with Casepoint across eDiscovery, legal hold, FOIA, and compliance workflows. · models named: Casepoint MCP Server

Hebbia states that Max is an AI team member built to reason with firm context and communicate like a colleague.

Bloomberg Law’s RSS item describes a webinar introducing Regology, a regulatory intelligence platform, and states that AI-powered workflows support movement from regulatory intelligence to operational execution.

Clio states on July 23 that Clio Work is live in Canada, offering matter-aware legal AI grounded in Canadian legal authority and over 470,000 Canadian cases.

Darrow announced Privacy Radar availability in Microsoft Marketplace, letting privacy, compliance, and security teams deploy its legal exposure product. · models named: Privacy Radar

Relativity said aiR Assist was generally available inside RelativityOne pricing for review and repository workspaces, with evidence-grounded conversational answers. · models named: Relativity aiR Assist · firms named: KPMG

Streamline AI states that it launched Streamline Slack Intake Agent and Streamline MCP Connector for in-house legal teams.

Lawmatics states on July 9 that Merlin is a suite of AI features including Merlin Copilot, Merlin Qualify and Merlin Engage for intake and firm growth workflows. · firms named: Sawyer & Associates, LLC

LexisNexis announces Lexis+ with Protégé for in-house legal and compliance teams, with secure AI for attorneys, paralegals, legal operations professionals and compliance officers.

LexisNexis and Neil Jesani Tax Advisors announce plans to collaborate on Tolley+ with Protégé to support CPA-firm tax advisory work with authoritative tax content and AI-powered research tools. · firms named: Neil Jesani Tax Advisors

Relativity said Complete Discovery Source expanded its AI offerings by adding aiR Assist for conversational evidence exploration inside RelativityOne workflows. · models named: Relativity aiR Assist · firms named: Complete Discovery Source

Relativity said Page One expanded AI document review with custom analyses in aiR for Review, letting legal teams define matter-specific analyses without code. · models named: Relativity aiR for Review · firms named: Page One, Inc.

Relativity said Avalon made a long-term RelativityOne and aiR suite investment and integrated aiR products into litigation support services. · models named: Relativity aiR · firms named: Avalon

Legora states that Tinexta will bring Italian case law, legislation and commentary into Legora, powered by LextelAI. · firms named: Tinexta, LextelAI

Epiq Advisory and Simplexico announced a partnership to provide law firms AI education, governance, change management, and implementation support. · firms named: Simplexico, Linklaters, Bird & Bird

Relativity said Array added aiR Assist to Array Intelligence, expanding conversational AI workflows for litigation support and legal data projects. · models named: Relativity aiR Assist · firms named: Array

Filevine states on July 13 that Codes Health will integrate medical-code intelligence into Filevine customer workflows through the LOIS platform.

Paxton’s partner page states it partnered with the New York City Bar Association to provide AI-powered legal tools and a member discount for Paxton subscriptions. · firms named: New York City Bar Association

LexisNexis states Allison Citron joined to advance strategic AI adoption for large law firms, connecting restructuring and transactional experience to the Lexis+ with Protégé advisory model.

DISCO announced that former Meta security and privacy executive Andre Mintz joined its board of directors, effective July 21, 2026. · firms named: Andre Mintz

Purpose Legal announced Dan Irving as chief financial officer to support leadership, operational excellence, and long-term growth. · firms named: Dan Irving

Draftwise states that it promoted Josh Sandman to Chief Sales Officer after his work with law firm and Fortune 500 legal team customers.

LexisNexis states Ray Thomas Jr. joined as a senior advisor to Fortune 1000 corporate legal departments adopting enterprise AI, combining practitioner expertise with Lexis+ with Protégé capabilities.

LexisNexis states Joanna Garcia joined as the company expands a consultative advisory model pairing practitioners with law firm leadership to map AI-powered workflows through Lexis+ with Protégé.

LexisNexis states Claudia Mumic joined as a Legal Engineer for the Large Law KM&I team to work with law firm stakeholders on custom AI-powered workflows through Lexis+ with Protégé.

LexisNexis states Alexander Nani joined as a Legal Engineer on the Large Law Knowledge Management and Innovation team to design and implement AI-powered workflows through Lexis+ with Protégé.

Trellis states AI research agents can access its state trial court dataset across Claude, ChatGPT and Trellis Chat through new ChatGPT and Trellis Chat plugins and the Claude MCP connector. · models named: Claude, ChatGPT, Trellis Chat

Harvey states that native Intapp Walls enforcement became generally available after an early access period. · firms named: Intapp

Spellbook states that its Google Docs integration brings Spellbook contract drafting and review workflows into Google Docs for users working outside Microsoft Word. · firms named: Google Docs

Trellis states it made its state trial court dataset available to Claude through a MCP connector and allowed users to try it for free. · models named: Claude, Anthropic

Epiq announced early access to agentic AI Accelerate capabilities powered by Claude for system-level eDiscovery actions from natural language requests. · models named: Claude, Epiq AI Accelerate · firms named: Saul Ewing LLP

Midpage states Perplexity users can search U.S. court opinions, statutes and regulations through Midpage directly in Perplexity without a separate subscription. · models named: Perplexity

Hebbia states that Snowflake structured data is available inside its AI-native research and analysis environment. · firms named: Snowflake

DeepJudge states that its Connector is live in Perplexity Computer for Counsel so legal teams can use institutional knowledge there. · firms named: Perplexity

Nuix Statuspage reported a resolved Discover APAC intermittent login problem that showed a white screen after login for some users.

Steno Status reported Web Application service performance became unresponsive for about eight minutes before resolution.

Smokeball’s status history reports a July 24 incident affecting finalized invoice PDF loading and marks it resolved after monitoring and investigation updates.

Steno Status reported Document Editor service performance became unresponsive for about seven minutes before resolution.

The Legora AB status API records 'Increased error rate when opening previous chats from chat history' as resolved with impact minor, created 2026-07-16T18:57:04Z and resolved 2026-07-16T16:38:00Z.

Nuix Statuspage reported a resolved AU login services incident affecting portal database login services and API calls.

DeepIP status RSS records Office action - EPO auto import on 2026-07-09. The feed text says: This incident has been resolved. Jul 9 , 14:37 UTC Monitoring - A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results. Jul 9 , 14:33 UTC Identi

Thomson Reuters publishes a follow-up article on its 2026 Future of Professionals report, stating that AI adoption is widespread while transformation, process redesign and organizational support lag behind user expectations.

Thomson Reuters publishes an AI value-gap article tied to its professional-services research, stating that chat-style AI use has outpaced organizational redesign and that firms need agentic systems grounded in professional content.

DeepIP states that its Munich July 2026 post discusses how AI is reshaping patent practice and patent professionals’ workflows.

Supio released its 2026 State of AI in Plaintiff Law report at AAJ, highlighting trust and verification barriers to adoption.

Harvey states that Legal Agent Bench was extended to evaluate AI agents on M&A due diligence workflows.

Hebbia states that processing over 250 billion tokens monthly informs its approach to workflow-level AI efficiency.

LexisNexis states Lexis Create+, its AI-powered drafting solution integrated into Microsoft 365 with Protégé, was named a 2026 CODiE Award winner for AI-enabled content.

LexisNexis publishes a company post stating growth is driven by customer adoption of Lexis+ with Protégé and that AI-related products account for most new business in the period discussed.

Thomson Reuters publishes a CTO article describing its approach to agentic AI for high-stakes professional work, emphasizing context, controls, trusted sources and human verification as design requirements for legal, tax, risk and compliance products.

Litera states on July 15 that it unveils a company relaunch and unified platform vision centered on Lito, Foundation 365 and a single dataset approach.

Supio reported H1 2026 growth, citing Supio Agent and Supio Intake launches, customer momentum, and leadership appointments. · models named: Supio Agent, Supio Intake · firms named: Daniel Stark Injury Lawyers

Luminance states that its Customer Advisory Board includes senior leaders discussing AI transformation, governance, trust and adoption. · firms named: BBC Studios, Ingram Micro, Slaughter and May, Staples Canada, Imerys

Legora states that a Seoul office marks its entry into South Korea and its fourth Asia-Pacific office.

Legora states that it opened a Mexico City office, its first in Latin America.

Legora states that a nearly 100,000-square-foot Manhattan office will support engineering, product, legal engineering and corporate functions.

Harvey states that it opened a Chicago office as part of its US expansion.

Harvey states that Claude Opus 5 is available in Harvey for customers selecting available underlying models. · models named: Claude Opus 5, Anthropic Opus 5

Litera states on July 15 that Claude Sonnet 5, Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol and Terra are live in Lito for chat and custom skills. · models named: Claude Sonnet 5, Claude Fable 5, GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.6 Terra

Harvey states that GPT-5.6 Sol is available in Harvey for customers selecting available underlying models. · models named: GPT-5.6 Sol

LexisNexis announces integration of Mistral models in Lexis+ with Protégé in France, describing an EU-hosted model for drafting, summarizing, rewording and structuring legal and tax content. · models named: Mistral

Legora states that it is acquiring Wexler, a fact-intelligence platform for large unstructured document sets. · firms named: Wexler

Harvey states that it acquired New York-based Benchmark, a decision-infrastructure platform for asset management. · firms named: Benchmark

LexisNexis states Lexis+ for Government achieved FedRAMP Certified status for government legal professionals, covering cloud security requirements for sensitive legal work and federal legal departments.

Epiq announced it advanced to the Ready Tier in Microsoft’s Copilot Jumpstart program for Copilot and AI-agent adoption services. · models named: Microsoft Copilot

Filevine states on July 21 that LOIS is offering 90-day free trials of its AI legal research platform to attorneys and law firms.