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. Founded by Ryan Wilson alongside co-founders Jon Conlin and Karl Campbell, Walter set out to build AI tools that fit naturally into legal workflows. The company focused on reducing routine, […]
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LexisNexis Launches Lexis+ AI Mobile App
The image of lawyers working late into the night in quiet law libraries has largely given way to a more mobile profession. Today’s legal professionals move between home offices, courtrooms, client sites, and airports while staying continuously connected to the tools they rely on. Mobile technology now underpins much of modern legal work. Research, drafting, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Wordsmith Expands Into North America as Legal AI Reshapes In-House Work
Edinburgh-based legal AI company Wordsmith is expanding into North America, entering the United States and Canada at a time when corporate legal departments face mounting pressure to manage rising costs, regulatory complexity, and accelerating business demands. Corporate legal spend remains heavily weighted toward external providers. Benchmarking from the Association of Corporate Counsel shows roughly half […]