A Vancouver-built legal tech platform is aiming to reshape how people find, and choose, lawyers by focusing on decision-making moments rather than traditional lead generation. Lawggle, founded by Cara Echino, has launched across both Canada and the United States as a North American platform designed to connect prospective clients with lawyers through real legal questions […]
BorderPass Reimagines Immigration with AI and Lawyers
As immigration policy grows more complex and global competition for talent intensifies, a new generation of legaltech companies is rethinking how cross-border mobility is delivered. Among them is BorderPass, which is using a hybrid model of generative AI and licensed legal professionals to make immigration services faster, more predictable, and significantly more accessible. At the […]
Wordsmith Targets Canada’s In-House Legal Shift
Legal AI is rapidly shifting from experimental tooling to core enterprise infrastructure as corporate legal teams face mounting pressure to manage rising workloads without expanding headcount. Wordsmith is betting that the next phase of legal transformation won’t be built solely for lawyers — but for entire organizations. The Edinburgh-founded company is expanding into Canada at […]
Vancouver Legal AI Startup Walter Acquired by Legora
Vancouver-based legaltech startup Walter has been acquired by European legal AI platform Legora, marking a notable cross-border deal in the rapidly evolving legal AI sector. The acquisition comes just days after Legora raised USD $550 million in a Series D funding round led by Accel, nearly doubling the company’s valuation to USD $5.6 billion. Founded […]
Thomson Reuters Rebuilds CoCounsel for Agentic AI
Thomson Reuters used this week’s Legalweek in New York to unveil the next generation of CoCounsel, marking what the company describes as a foundational shift in how artificial intelligence supports legal work. Rather than functioning as a collection of discrete AI tools, the redesigned platform is built around an “agentic” architecture capable of planning and […]