AI Legal Assistants

Harvey and Legora both announced in August 2026 that they would run Avvoka's templates inside their platforms: Harvey for joint early access customers, Legora in a beta planned by the fourth quarter of 2026. What they call is a firm's own drafting logic. Lawyers approve a precedent, turn it into a questionnaire driven template, then generate repeat agreements using the firm's clauses and fallbacks; Curate helps with the setup by comparing past deals and proposing a standard for a lawyer to approve clause by clause. Avvoka says about a quarter of the AmLaw 100 draft on it.

CoCounsel answers from the sources many lawyers already work from: Westlaw's primary law, Practical Law guidance and the firm's own documents, in one research and drafting workflow. Its August 2026 US release gives lawyers several concrete ways to use that content:

• Brief Builder proposes facts, arguments and authority for a first draft brief, with the lawyer controlling strategy and final decisions.
• Tabular Analysis handles up to 10,000 documents and 100 questions, according to Thomson Reuters.
• Deep Research Verify checks whether cited Westlaw and Practical Law authority supports a legal assertion.

Online plans cover firms of up to ten attorneys, including a full package with Westlaw Advantage and Practical Law. The publisher content and verification layer are the reason to compare it with other assistants.

Everything a firm has already written becomes findable with DeepJudge, across document repositories and business systems, with each user's access permissions preserved. In the CoCounsel integration, a lawyer can find precedent through DeepJudge and attach up to ten files to a CoCounsel session for analysis or drafting, without downloading and uploading them manually.

It also offers multi document chat, negotiation history search and tools for building firm specific agents. Its open Agent Handoff Protocol carries a task's objective, selected documents and conversation between AI products. DeepJudge describes Harvey and Thomson Reuters as integration partners using that approach. The value is continuity of firm knowledge across tools the lawyers already use.

In a long agreement, Definely keeps track of what a lawyer reviewing in Word would otherwise scroll for: every defined term, clause reference and knock on effect. Three tools do different parts of that work:

• Read opens defined terms and clause references beside the text being reviewed.
• Proof collects placeholders, bracketed text and comments, and flags formatting problems.
• Cascade shows which clauses, definitions and references an edit may affect, with reasoning the lawyer can inspect.

Slaughter and May's customer account describes adopting the navigation and proofing tools to reduce scrolling and checking across large documents. Selected structural review capabilities are also available inside Claude and through its ChatGPT Enterprise plugin.

DocJuris sends its own engineers to set the software up around a legal team's playbooks. Its Workforce offer starts with a fixed fee scope of work, then usage charges, without per seat fees or user limits. The company lists more than 25 apps across contract review, legal operations, compliance, real estate and finance; a human decides which outputs are sent onward.

There is also a free contract email agent that returns a redlined markup and summary by email in minutes. It provides a simple way to inspect contract review before commissioning a wider deployment.

Every deal a firm has closed becomes drafting material in Draftwise. It searches precedent, responds to redlines and compares positions against EDGAR filings, with access following the firm's document management permissions.

Its newer Ontonomi product connects the relationships behind the documents. In a funds practice, that means asking which side letters override an agreement term or which investor rights a proposed change affects, with a trail to the source documents. Ropes & Gray is the founding legal ontology partner. Draftwise said in October 2025 that a third of the AmLaw 100 used its broader product; that is separate from adoption of the newer Ontonomi offer.

GC AI gives the in house lawyer one desk for contracts and research, with individual seats publicly offered from $500 a month. It drafts and redlines in Word against company playbooks, while Exact Quote links an answer to highlighted source text. US Case Law and International Law databases cost extra on Individual; Team and Enterprise include one of the two.

Its Agent Connectors can read connected email, files and Slack, then draft replies or change records in the same conversation. Write actions require approval by default, but users can also always allow or block particular actions. GC AI says more than 2,100 legal teams use it.

Genie walks a business team from a template to a negotiated contract. Users can start with more than 500 templates, fill them from earlier answers or reference documents, compare versions and propose edits as tracked changes. It serves sales, procurement and founders as well as in house lawyers.

Its free plan permits trying the editor and AI tools but locks exports until an upgrade. Pro is $75 monthly or $59 a month billed annually, with an allowance Genie estimates covers about five documents monthly, depending on size. Shared team playbooks and company knowledge appear in Business, from $320 monthly for five users.

Harvey's agent starts a task already knowing the matter: Harvey II hands it the documents, parties, tasks, permissions and the firm's ethical walls. The August 2026 release also added memory of a lawyer's preferred format and citation style across Harvey, Word and Outlook. Harvey illustrates the result with an overnight first pass through contracts in an M&A data room, returning cited findings and assigning the next review step to a lawyer.

There is evidence of use at large firms: Harvey says it serves 80 or more of the AmLaw 100, among more than 3,500 legal organisations in more than 85 countries. In the February 2025 Vals report, its earlier Assistant had the highest AI score on five of the six tasks it entered. That test predates Harvey II.

Research content also comes through partners, including LexisNexis. Its $550 million September 2026 financing at a $15.5 billion valuation matches the size of Legora's March 2026 Series D and its October 2026 Series E.

Ivo checks a new contract against what the company has already signed. Its Review product benchmarks a clause against comparable contracts by governing law, contract type, party role and industry, and considers deal value and urgency when applying a playbook. Proposed redlines can be applied in Word or Google Docs. That gives the reviewer evidence of what the business has previously accepted.

It has also published a company reported benchmark. Three attorneys blindly scored reviews of 19 contracts: Ivo averaged 4.52 out of ten, a single senior lawyer 4.56 and Claude for Word 3.50. Ivo says it averaged two minutes and 45 seconds per contract; the lawyer took about ten hours for the set. Ivo calls the study independent but does not identify the organisation running it. The result describes that April 2026 test and its scoring method.

Ask Jónsbók about a statute and it shows how the rule got there: the amendments and judgments behind its current form. Its legal knowledge graph combines those national sources with the user's own materials, so research and drafting can link back to the underlying text. It lists eight supported jurisdictions: Iceland, Finland, Sweden, Czechia, Croatia, Hungary, Poland and Romania, with coverage explicitly varying by country.

A lawyer can buy a licence online for €175 a month excluding VAT, with a ten percent annual discount and no free trial on self checkout subscriptions. Szecskay Attorneys at Law announced a Hungarian pilot in August 2025, providing a named customer account of the local adaptation work.

A legal team with no playbook of its own can start reviewing on its first day with LegalOn: its Core Review offer includes more than 135 prebuilt playbooks, written by LegalOn's attorneys, and contract redlining in Word, where the reviewer sees flagged clauses and proposed changes. Custom company playbooks and the Vault contract intelligence repository sit in the wider Contracting Suite, with intake and matter management in Productivity.

LegalOn reported more than 9,000 customer organisations in August 2026. Pricing is by team and capabilities. Germany and Singapore hosting options let eligible regional customers keep storage and processing in region, according to the company.

Drop a set of agreements into Legora, type the questions as columns, and it returns a grid with an answer for every document, each linked back to its source. That makes it useful for diligence or comparing positions across many agreements. BMW Group's legal department is rolling it out for research, review and drafting in Word, using approved internal standards and access rules.

Its Intake launch on 13 October 2026 adds a different route into the same work. A Slack request becomes a tracked task; the agent asks for missing details and prepares a draft from the legal team's playbooks. A lawyer reviews by default, while pre approved routine request types can be completed and returned automatically. Teams and email were planned extensions, rather than channels shipped in that announcement.

On 21 October 2026 Legora raised a $550 million Series E at an $8.8 billion post-money valuation.

A lawyer may use Protégé without ever opening Lexis. It is available in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams, and partnerships put its cited legal answers inside Harvey and Luminance for eligible customers. At the centre is Lexis content with Shepard's citation intelligence. In Lexis+ with Protégé, lawyers can carry that research into document drafting and review; the August 2026 update generates Word, Excel or PowerPoint work product, retains context between steps and lets users select connected firm documents as sources. It supports checking the underlying authority within the workflow.

Libra works from the sources continental European lawyers cite, for research, contract review and drafting. Its content catalogue includes Wolters Kluwer Online and Otto Schmidt in Germany, Legal Intelligence in the Netherlands, One LEGALE in Italy and LEX in Poland. The review workflow applies acceptable, fallback and unacceptable positions from the firm's playbook in the browser or Word. An October 2026 editor adds reusable firm templates and a source panel alongside the draft.

Annual workspace prices start at €900 per user excluding VAT. Automated review and the Word add in start with Professional at €2,000; Team is €2,400. Selected public sources are included, while commercial partner content needs a separate subscription. Wolters Kluwer owns Libra, but that does not make all its publisher content part of the workspace fee.

Lito lets a cautious firm keep its AI on a short leash, by connecting Litera's established document tools to an agent. It can call rules based engines for comparison, document analysis and metadata removal, or use generative models for drafting and other flexible work. Litera says firms can switch generative AI off while retaining the rules based functions.

Firm AI Search brings matter, client and expertise data from Foundation into that conversation, initially for US Foundation Cloud customers. Lito was included without an extra charge in Litera's drafting packages and Kira at its October 2025 launch; current standalone pricing is not published. The access depends on the Litera products a firm licenses.

Luminance remembers what the company conceded last time. Its Negotiate workflow retrieves language and concessions previously agreed with the same counterparty, applies the company's approved positions and proposes markups in Word. Legal can set permissions so sales or procurement progress routine contracts, while exceptions return to a lawyer.

The technology combines Luna Crescent, its own specialist legal model, with other models selected by task. Luminance says its legal data foundation contains more than 220 million documents. Named customers include AMD and LG Chem.

Magnar answers from each Latin American country's own statutes and case law, with links back to official sources. Its Chile product also analyses case files of up to 10,000 pages, compares documents in tables and proposes tracked edits in Word, according to the company. Chilean law firm Carey used it before investing, giving it a named local customer with a disclosed financial relationship.

Its individual plans include a free allowance of five credits monthly and Plus at US$50 monthly with 30 credits weekly. Questions and files consume credits. Magnar reported about 30,000 users and 350 firms in September 2026. That announcement said it was building databases for Brazil and Mexico; the current site lists both as available, without establishing the same depth as Chile.

Click a citation in Beck-Noxtua and the C.H.BECK commentary or case law opens in beck-online, in full text. Lawyers can review documents, organise case files in a matrix and draft in the workspace or Word.

The current model system offers a choice per task: Athena uses self hosted models on European controlled infrastructure, while Minerva provides a closed frontier model through Deutsche Telekom's EU arrangement. Noxtua says model processing uses zero retention; it separately stores encrypted conversation history under customer retention controls.

C.H.BECK became the majority owner in a September 2026 round exceeding €100 million. Noxtua also lists publisher branded workspaces for Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Sweden and Bulgaria, with national content varying by workspace.

SimpleAI tells a reviewer in Word what the market actually signs. It applies company playbooks and compares language with Law Insider's contract corpus, which SimpleDocs says contains more than four million agreements and 20 million clauses. Benchmarking against the company's own signed contracts is an additional capability requiring SimpleAI Pro and a separately purchased Repository subscription.

The published plans cost $149 per user monthly for SimpleAI or $199 for Pro, each with a three seat minimum. That makes the minimum advertised seat charge $447 or $597 monthly before any separate Repository fee. Reviews, redlines, drafting and summaries are unlimited on both plans. SimpleDocs offers one or two year agreements.

Spellbook never asks a transactional lawyer to leave Word: it flags risks, proposes tracked redlines and drafts from saved language inside the agreement itself. Associate handles work across multiple documents with the lawyer's oversight. The company reports more than 5,000 legal teams, spanning law firms and in house departments. Pricing is by team size, with a seven day trial. Its announced end to end contract management product, ACM, remains an early access offer.

VerifAI can review a contract without it leaving the lawyer's laptop: review, risk scoring and redlining run locally on a Snapdragon X Elite machine. TechCrunch reported the demonstrated workflow in January 2026, when it was limited to selected customers. Login, licensing and collaboration still needed internet access; broader current availability is not confirmed.

The standard VerifAI product reviews contracts against guides in Word and proposes tracked changes. SpotDraft also describes a standalone Personal version, separate from its contract management platform. Current pricing is not public on the pages checked.

One question, many jurisdictions: Vincent's Compare Jurisdictions and 50 State Survey tools set the answers side by side, with links to sources in vLex, now part of Clio. vLex says its wider database contains more than a billion documents from more than 100 countries; the coverage needed for a particular legal question still matters more than that total.

It also works in Word, reading comments and existing redlines and proposing native tracked changes. That add in is currently configured for English US and excludes mobile. Its announced integration into Clio Operate was scheduled for November 2026, so it should be distinguished from the available Vincent workflows.

Independent results are mixed and historical. In Vals' February 2025 study, Vincent scored 72.7 on document questions against a 70.1 lawyer baseline, but 53.6 on redlining against 79.7. These are task scores out of 100 for that version, not evidence about the quality of its 2026 releases.

A sales colleague asks about an MSA in Slack, and the redline comes back in Slack: Wordsmith's published workflow routes the request to commercial counsel, pulls context from connected systems and drafts against the team's playbook. Lawyers can also review, redline and draft directly in Word.

The Financial Times customer story describes deployment across legal, compliance and company secretarial work, including contract review and drafting. Wordsmith said more than 500 companies used it in August 2026. The FT's venture arm is also an investor, so its endorsement comes with that relationship.