Harvey ($11B) and Legora ($5.6B) have a combined $17B valuation, but both are built on foundation models that just launched their own legal platforms – with Harvey as a connector inside Claude.
Cleary acquired an AI company. A&O Shearman and Freshfields co-develop with AI labs and share the revenue. Latham subscribes and builds on top. Three strategies, three very different risk profiles.
Every major AI lab prices inference below cost. When the venture capital subsidizing your five-cent contract review runs out, your AI economics change whether you're ready or not.
A practical walkthrough of Claude Cowork across the litigation lifecycle – organized around Projects for matters and Skills for recurring tasks – plus the privilege question every firm needs to answer first.
Anthropic launched Claude for Legal with 12 practice-area plugins and 20+ MCP connectors – positioning Claude as the hub that legal tech plugs into, not just the model underneath it.
OpenAI's Astra for Law and Anthropic's Claude for Legal work with many of the same legal vendors, but OpenAI builds the legal knowledge into the harness while Anthropic ships it as skills and connectors you can edit, and neither vendor compared itself to the other's real setup.