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OpenText replaces CEO Mark Barrenechea and flags strategic shift

OpenText replaces CEO Mark Barrenechea and flags strategic shift

OpenText this week announced that it has replaced Mark Barrenechea as CEO, appointing James McGourlay, currently executive vice president of international sales, as as interim chief executive officer. OpenText also
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ILTACON 2025: iManage implements Model Context Protocol support + product updates – Interview

ILTACON 2025: iManage implements Model Context Protocol support + product updates – Interview

iManage at ILTACON unveiled new AI capabilities, including implementing Model Context Protocol (MCP) support. MCP is an open standard designed to help large language models connect to external tools and
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The July/August Orange Rag Is Here!

The July/August Orange Rag Is Here!

Hi and welcome to the July/August Orange Rag, where we bring you all the latest wins, deals, acquisitions and investments of the past month and a half in one place,
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ILTACON 25: Elite says SaaS subscription usage up 75% and shares latest product updates

ILTACON 25: Elite says SaaS subscription usage up 75% and shares latest product updates

Elite today (12 August) announced that demand for cloud migration rose sharply in 2025, with a 75% increase in SaaS subscription usage. Momentum for Elite’s invoice management solution, Elite Payments
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Charting Change In Legal – Episode 44 Is Here!

Charting Change In Legal – Episode 44 Is Here!

In this 44th episode of Charting Change in Legal, Ari Kaplan, lead analyst and Caroline Hill, editor and publisher of Legal IT Insider, discussed tips for ILTACON, networking over breakfast, dinner,
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Latham & Watkins to roll out Harvey globally

Latham & Watkins to roll out Harvey globally

Latham & Watkins has signed an enterprise license for a firmwide rollout of the Harvey platform and its full suite of generative AI solutions following an evaluation.  The large-scale deployment
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Exclusive: Laurel secures investment from Workday Ventures

Exclusive: Laurel secures investment from Workday Ventures

Laurel has received strategic investment from Workday Ventures, we can reveal, in a major win for the AI-powered time capture company. As part of Workday Ventures’ investment, Laurel will become
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Exclusive: Syncly hires James Connor as SVP of global sales & launches first product

Exclusive: Syncly hires James Connor as SVP of global sales & launches first product

James Connor has joined data synchronisation and management platform Syncly as its new SVP of global sales & partnerships, joining from Opus 2, where he was VP of sales for
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OpenAI Launches GPT-5: Some initial legal benchmarking results & thoughts

OpenAI Launches GPT-5: Some initial legal benchmarking results & thoughts

If there was a dip in productivity in the legal tech world this week it may be because everyone was a) getting ready for ILTACON and b) busy testing and
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Breaking news: Aderant to acquire HerculesAI’s legal technology assets

Breaking news: Aderant to acquire HerculesAI’s legal technology assets

Aderant has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the legal technology assets of HerculesAI, formerly Zero Systems, including its AI-driven time capture, email management and compliance tools Apollo, Athena, and Verify.   HerculesAI’s founder
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Litera makes strategic investment in AI CRM startup Postilize

Litera makes strategic investment in AI CRM startup Postilize

Litera today (7 August) announced a strategic investment in Postilize and the launch of Foundation Proactive, Powered by Postilize, providing Litera customers with an experience-based relationship management solution drawing on
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Epiq announces eight new high profile members of Epiq AI Labs

Epiq announces eight new high profile members of Epiq AI Labs

Epiq today (6 August) announced eight high profile new members of Epiq AI Labs, which is a community of legal and AI researchers, engineers, academics, and industry experts brought together
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August, Blue J and Afriwise grow through raises or acquisition 

August, Blue J and Afriwise grow through raises or acquisition 

August, an AI assistant platform built for midsize law firms, has raised $7m; Blue J, an online natural language tax research platform, has raised $122m in a Series D funding;
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Descrybe added to the National Society for Legal Tech curriculum, replacing Casetext 

Descrybe added to the National Society for Legal Tech curriculum, replacing Casetext 

AI legal research startup Descrybe has been added to the National Society for Legal Technology’s (NSLT) Legal Research Technology curriculum – a globally adopted program used by more than 350
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Thomson Reuters launches CoCounsel Legal with agentic AI and deep research capabilities

Thomson Reuters launches CoCounsel Legal with agentic AI and deep research capabilities

Thomson Reuters today (5 August) announced the launch of CoCounsel Legal, featuring deep research and agentic guided workflows. What’s different to Thomson Reuters’ previous CoCounsel launches is that this is
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Francisco Partners acquires Elite from TPG 

Francisco Partners acquires Elite from TPG 

Updated with a comment at 14.10 BST on 5 August Francisco Partners announced today (5 August) that it will acquire Elite from TPG Capital and Thomson Reuters, which retained a
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Charting Change In Legal Episode 43 Is Here!

Charting Change In Legal Episode 43 Is Here!

In this 43rd episode of Charting Change in Legal, Ari Kaplan, lead analyst and Caroline Hill, editor and publisher of Legal IT Insider, discussed aligning human judgment with AI support,
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