Two-Way Street: LegalTech Connects with Frontier AI
Last week, I addressed how both Anthropic and OpenAI are making inroads into the legal vertical with their own l aw firm platforms. Now, that’s a shot across the bow of traditional legaltech vendors, who are actively employing (usually) white-labeled versions of frontier AI tools into their platforms . But, with frontier AI vendors releasing legal-specific p roducts , that also delivers an interesting new choice for attorneys – who could entirely avoid case management software in favor of these new tools. Legaltech vendors, then, especially the law practice management software companies, that have traditional ly served as the hub for legal operations, now also have a choice to make: Do they continue to gatekeep their systems from frontier AI tools, or risk losing clients who want to use those tools aggressively, to those models? Currently legaltech vendors are answering those questions in different ways . Some (like Clio , with it...