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In one week, Microsoft launched Copilot for Legal, Legora announced 30+ integrations, and Legora and Harvey both launched in-house intake tools. Every platform wants to be your legal team's home screen. Say yes to all of them and you get duplicate spend, inconsistent answers and lawyers retreating to email. Here's a six-question sprawl diagnosis and four moves to fix it.

Microsoft's Copilot for Legal arrived on October 15 with more than 20 legal skills, native tracked changes, and the ability to draft from approved precedents in SharePoint. That last part is the catch. A Word-native AI is only as good as the folder it reads from, and most legal department folders are full of FINAL_v7 files. Here are six lessons to get your knowledge house in order first.

Every legal AI pitch promises lower costs. That works for NDAs. For a hard-fought lawsuit, cheaper motions and pennies-per-document review hand both sides more ammunition. Here are seven hard truths about AI and your litigation budget, plus what to do about them.

The EU's revised Product Liability Directive must be in national law by December 9, 2026, and it covers software and AI. On October 8, the UK Law Commission proposed doing the same. If your company builds or embeds software, your vendor contracts were written for a world where code wasn't a "product." This checklist helps you find and fix the gaps.

Your repository holds every signed contract. It doesn't hold the reason you accepted that uncapped indemnity in 2023. When the lawyer who negotiated it leaves, the reasoning leaves too. Here's how to tell if your team has this problem, and the process and tools that fix it.