AI Legal Index: Legal Research changes https://ailegalindex.com/categories/legal-research Material product changes at Legal Research vendors, tracked by AI Legal Index. Every entry is dated and cited to a public source. en-us Free to reuse with a visible link to ailegalindex.com. Terms: https://ailegalindex.com/use-this-data Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT 720 StrongSuit published StrongSuit for Outlook (version 1.0.0.0) on Microsoft Marketplace, an add in for Outlook on the web, Windows and Mac… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/strongsuit ailegalindex.com:change:6ab917f94f0d70b4bff6a101 Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Integration / interoperability General Legal Assistants Legal Research Litigation & eDiscovery Contract Review & Drafting StrongSuit published StrongSuit for Outlook (version 1.0.0.0) on Microsoft Marketplace, an add in for Outlook on the web, Windows and Mac that drafts a reply to the open email using the documents and email history of the linked StrongSuit matter. Users can connect an Outlook folder to a matter so every reply in that folder starts with that matter's context, then refine the draft in one click or with their own instruction. The listing states the add in never sends email and never changes recipients, subject or attachments.

Why it matters: It carries matter context into client, opposing counsel and court correspondence, and the no send design keeps a lawyer as the final reviewer of every message. The listing says the add in can read and modify the active message, so firms should check email and client confidentiality policies before rollout.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Partially Verified. Type: Integration / interoperability.

Evidence: Vendor documentation

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> TrustArc: The Mobile App Consent SDK now reads each region's consent model from the server and, in opt in regions, applies the configured default… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/trustarc ailegalindex.com:change:6ab917f94f0d70b4bff6a0f7 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Product / capability Regulatory & Compliance Counsel Legal Research Legal Ops & Spend The Mobile App Consent SDK now reads each region's consent model from the server and, in opt in regions, applies the configured default category consent at app start without showing a banner, while regions with GDPR in scope, opt out regions and accounts with no default category are skipped. Three new iOS APIs (setAttOptOutLevel, setShowAttOptOutWindow, setAttOptOutLockCategories) control which categories are rejected and locked when a user declines Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt, and a new getWebCookie() function returns consent cookie values on Android, iOS, Flutter and React Native.

Why it matters: This changes what the SDK decides on a user's behalf without any user action, so legal teams should confirm their per region consent models and default categories match their own legal position before the new behavior takes effect in their apps.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Verified. Type: Product / capability.

Evidence: Vendor documentation

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Vincent AI: Vincent now includes Canadian case law and legislation, built on the Jurisage dataset Clio acquired in June 2026 and since ingested and… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/vincent-ai ailegalindex.com:change:6ab917c2a328a2163b304e19 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Product / capability Legal Research Litigation & eDiscovery General Legal Assistants Vincent now includes Canadian case law and legislation, built on the Jurisage dataset Clio acquired in June 2026 and since ingested and validated. Coverage runs past 567,000 judicial decisions plus federal and provincial legislation across the common law provinces, with Quebec and Nunavut legislation still in progress. The content feeds Vincent research, drafting and analysis, including checking existing citations against Canadian authorities.

Why it matters: Canadian and cross border firms can now ground Vincent answers and citation checks in Canadian primary law rather than relying on US, UK or EU sources. Quebec practitioners should confirm scope, since Quebec legislation is not yet loaded.

Impact: High. Verification: Verified. Type: Product / capability.

Evidence: Vendor announcement

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> TrustArc: Individual Rights Manager release 2026.09.2 adds Due Date Countdown Rules that start the data subject request deadline clock from either… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/trustarc ailegalindex.com:change:6ab917c2a328a2163b304e18 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Product / capability Regulatory & Compliance Counsel Legal Research Legal Ops & Spend Individual Rights Manager release 2026.09.2 adds Due Date Countdown Rules that start the data subject request deadline clock from either the Request Received Date or the Request Verified Date, set per intake form, request type and brand, with the most specific rule applied and the global setting as fallback. The same release adds a Bulk Verify action that moves multiple Unverified requests to In Progress, excluding requests that require Evident or IDology identity checks.

Why it matters: Privacy counsel handling access and deletion requests under different laws can encode each statute's deadline trigger in the system instead of tracking exceptions by hand, which lowers the risk of missed statutory response dates.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Verified. Type: Product / capability.

Evidence: Vendor documentation

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Lex Machina released enhanced analytics for more than 576,000 Miami-Dade Circuit Civil and County Civil lawsuits filed since 2016, with… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/lex-machina ailegalindex.com:change:6ab917c2a328a2163b304e14 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Product / capability Legal Research Litigation & eDiscovery Lex Machina released enhanced analytics for more than 576,000 Miami-Dade Circuit Civil and County Civil lawsuits filed since 2016, with new cases, trial outcomes and procedural milestones added daily. The release adds outcomes for more than 4,660 civil trials (prevailing party, damages awards, trial judge rulings), filters for case type, party industry code and procedural milestones, and direct access to more than 23 million Miami-Dade docket entries and underlying filings.

Why it matters: Firms, insurers and legal departments with South Florida exposure can benchmark case timing, trial damages and opposing counsel experience against local state court cases and read the filings behind each figure, which supports budgets and settlement ranges for a high volume state venue.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Verified. Type: Product / capability.

Evidence: Vendor announcement

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Jus Mundi added 35 publications (17 titles plus the 18 volume Investment Treaty Arbitration and International Law set) to its JURIS… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/jus-mundi ailegalindex.com:change:6ab917c2a328a2163b304e12 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Product / capability Legal Research General Legal Assistants Jus Mundi added 35 publications (17 titles plus the 18 volume Investment Treaty Arbitration and International Law set) to its JURIS Arbitration Law Library add on, covering US practice such as 28 U.S.C. 1782 discovery, interim measures in US courts and FINRA securities arbitration, plus award enforcement, ISDS jurisprudence, EU law and Asia-Pacific force majeure. The titles are live for existing JURIS and Jus AI Max subscribers at no extra charge and can be queried in Jus AI alongside awards and treaties, with each answer traceable to the source text.

Why it matters: Arbitration teams with US court exposure get commentary that Jus AI can cite in the same answer as primary awards and treaties, which cuts the need for a second research tool. Existing JURIS and Jus AI Max customers get the content without a new contract or fee.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Verified. Type: Product / capability.

Evidence: Vendor announcement

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Harvey's release notes list Agentic Search for DMS covering SharePoint, OneDrive and Google Drive. https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/harvey ailegalindex.com:change:6ab917c2a328a2163b304e10 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Integration / interoperability General Legal Assistants Contract Review & Drafting Legal Research Harvey's release notes list Agentic Search for DMS covering SharePoint, OneDrive and Google Drive. Harvey can now search a user's connected content in those repositories directly and find the relevant documents without the user first locating and selecting files. It extends the agentic iManage Search released on 2 Sep to Microsoft and Google document stores.

Why it matters: Firms that keep matter files in SharePoint or Google Drive rather than iManage or NetDocuments can now let Harvey find source documents itself, which removes manual upload and selection steps and widens what answers can be grounded in.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Partially Verified. Type: Integration / interoperability.

Evidence: Vendor documentation

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Noxtua shipped the Noxtua Model System, a model picker in Chat, Matrix and the Word and Outlook add ins that lets users choose between… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/noxtua ailegalindex.com:change:6ab9178d421c0bed64772f19 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Model / architecture General Legal Assistants Legal Research Contract Review & Drafting Noxtua shipped the Noxtua Model System, a model picker in Chat, Matrix and the Word and Outlook add ins that lets users choose between base model categories and switch at any time, including mid conversation. Standard (Athena Agent) runs open source or open weights models self hosted on Deutsche Telekom and IONOS infrastructure, while the new Frontier category (Minerva Agent) adds an international closed source frontier model reached through Deutsche Telekom's T Cloud Public. Admins can deselect the nondefault category under Settings, Advanced Settings, and the picker is not yet offered in every market.

Why it matters: Firms that wanted frontier model output without leaving a European processing setup can now get it in the same product, while judiciary and public sector buyers can hold users to the sovereign open weights category by admin policy. Noxtua also states each model passes preregistered release gates, including legal engineering tests by C.H.BECK and bias assessments, before it enters a category.

Impact: High. Verification: Verified. Type: Model / architecture.

Evidence: Vendor documentation

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Noxtua: The Model System support article sets out the data path for the new Frontier (Minerva) category: the closed source model is accessed… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/noxtua ailegalindex.com:change:6ab9178d421c0bed64772f18 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Privilege / confidentiality General Legal Assistants Legal Research Contract Review & Drafting The Model System support article sets out the data path for the new Frontier (Minerva) category: the closed source model is accessed through Deutsche Telekom's T Cloud Public over an encrypted, isolated connection into a dedicated Google processing environment in an EU data center, under a data processing agreement. Noxtua states that across all categories client data is never used for model training and is held with zero retention during processing, and that conversation history stays in Noxtua's own encrypted storage on Deutsche Telekom and IONOS under Noxtua keys, with client set retention. It says the Standard (Athena) path has no US law provider in its chain, while Minerva only reduces US CLOUD Act exposure.

Why it matters: Leaving Frontier switched on puts a Google environment into the processing chain for client matter data, so firms with strict client confidentiality or outside counsel terms should review the processing agreement and set the category by admin policy. The vendor's own statement that Athena, not Minerva, is the path with no US CLOUD Act addressee gives buyers a clear basis for that choice.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Partially Verified. Type: Privilege / confidentiality.

Evidence: Vendor documentation

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Harvey says its agent can now search the US Case Law source by publication status, date filed, court, citing references and cited by… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/harvey ailegalindex.com:change:6ab9178d421c0bed64772f17 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Product / capability General Legal Assistants Contract Review & Drafting Legal Research Harvey says its agent can now search the US Case Law source by publication status, date filed, court, citing references and cited by references, and can review Bluebook citations and isolate specific reporter page breaks. Harvey extracts citing and treatment relationships across the corpus so the agent follows citations between opinions before answering with inline citations. Runtime precedential treatment warnings and full brief cite checking are described as upcoming work, not shipped.

Why it matters: Citing and cited by search plus pinpoint page handling move Harvey toward citator style research inside the platform, but buyers should keep a separate good law check until the announced treatment warnings ship.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Partially Verified. Type: Product / capability.

Evidence: Vendor announcement

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> GC AI: Admins can now pick the user groups each invitee joins on acceptance, and automatic member access applies groups to people who join by… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/gc-ai ailegalindex.com:change:6ab9178d421c0bed64772f16 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Safety / governance General Legal Assistants Contract Review & Drafting Legal Research Admins can now pick the user groups each invitee joins on acceptance, and automatic member access applies groups to people who join by invite link, SSO or SCIM provisioning. Contract Intelligence chats started in a Vault can be shared only with full members of that Vault (no public links or edit access), external View shares send tracked email invitations, and a new Metrics view shows uploads by user to admins without revealing document or Vault names. Organization data exports can now also include uploaded and generated files alongside chat transcripts, grouped by user.

Why it matters: Access to contract data is set by group at provisioning time rather than by hand, and sharing stays inside Vault membership, which reduces the risk of confidential agreements reaching the wrong people.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Verified. Type: Safety / governance.

Evidence: Vendor documentation

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> GC AI: In a Contract Intelligence Vault sidebar chat, clicking a citation badge now opens the document sheet on the cited passage, with… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/gc-ai ailegalindex.com:change:6ab9178d421c0bed64772f15 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Product / capability General Legal Assistants Contract Review & Drafting Legal Research In a Contract Intelligence Vault sidebar chat, clicking a citation badge now opens the document sheet on the cited passage, with highlights on PDFs, Word files and text documents. The chat citation panel also now splits case law, legislation and web sources into separate sections so statute and regulation hits are distinguishable from cases.

Why it matters: Lawyers can check an answer against the exact source passage in one click and see at a glance whether a point rests on a case, a statute or a web page, which shortens verification before relying on the output.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Verified. Type: Product / capability.

Evidence: Vendor documentation

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> UniCourt released a legal research plugin for ChatGPT. https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/unicourt ailegalindex.com:change:6aaea9fcafa54bf67064faaf Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Integration / interoperability Legal Research Litigation & eDiscovery UniCourt released a legal research plugin for ChatGPT. Users can search dockets and documents across more than 5,000 state and federal courts from inside ChatGPT, drawing on UniCourt's structured litigation data.

Why it matters: Docket data is structured and checkable in a way case law summaries are not, which makes it a safer thing to put in front of a general assistant. The test is freshness: ask how quickly a new filing reaches the plugin compared with UniCourt's own platform.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Verified. Type: Integration / interoperability.

Evidence: Vendor announcement

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Descrybe released its Legal Engine plugin for ChatGPT Enterprise. https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/descrybe ailegalindex.com:change:6aaea9fcafa54bf67064faad Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Integration / interoperability Legal Research General Legal Assistants Descrybe released its Legal Engine plugin for ChatGPT Enterprise. The company says it gives ChatGPT users structured, verifiable US primary law and legal intelligence built for AI.

Why it matters: OpenAI launched its own legal search index the same day, so Descrybe is now selling primary law into an assistant that has one built in. The comparison worth running is coverage and citation accuracy on the buyer's own research questions, not the claims in either release.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Verified. Type: Integration / interoperability.

Evidence: Vendor announcement

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> DeepJudge released a ChatGPT plugin that lets users search the firm's internal documents, retrieve source content and run search tasks… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/deepjudge ailegalindex.com:change:6aaea9fcafa54bf67064faaa Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Integration / interoperability Legal Research General Legal Assistants Legal Ops & Spend DeepJudge released a ChatGPT plugin that lets users search the firm's internal documents, retrieve source content and run search tasks from ChatGPT. OpenAI's example is bringing prior deals into a comparison.

Why it matters: DeepJudge's index already respects a firm's document permissions and ethical walls. The question for the plugin is whether that still holds once results are inside ChatGPT. Ask whether a user can only retrieve what they could open in the source system.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Partially Verified. Type: Integration / interoperability.

Evidence: Vendor documentation

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Clio released a Vincent plugin for Codex, OpenAI's agent. https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/clio ailegalindex.com:change:6aaea9fcafa54bf67064faa6 Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Integration / interoperability Intake & Client Development Legal Research Legal Ops & Spend Clio released a Vincent plugin for Codex, OpenAI's agent. Lawyers can bring Vincent's legal research content and their matter context from Clio into Codex, keeping the connection to the sources behind each answer.

Why it matters: The notable choice is Codex rather than ChatGPT. Codex is one of the two places OpenAI is offering Astra for Law to firms, so this puts Clio's research beside OpenAI's own legal configuration. Firms on a standard ChatGPT Enterprise seat should check they actually have Codex before planning around it.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Verified. Type: Integration / interoperability.

Evidence: Vendor announcement

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Legora released a plugin for ChatGPT Enterprise that brings Legora's grounded legal answers into the ChatGPT interface. https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/legora ailegalindex.com:change:6aaea9fcafa54bf67064faa3 Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Integration / interoperability General Legal Assistants Contract Review & Drafting Legal Research Legora released a plugin for ChatGPT Enterprise that brings Legora's grounded legal answers into the ChatGPT interface. OpenAI also named Legora as one of the API customers that will build on Astra for Law.

Why it matters: Legora is now on both sides of OpenAI's legal launch: a plugin inside ChatGPT and a customer building on the model underneath. Firms standardizing on ChatGPT Enterprise should ask which Legora capabilities the plugin exposes, and which still require the Legora platform itself.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Verified. Type: Integration / interoperability.

Evidence: Vendor announcement

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Harvey now lets users hand any action in a Review Table to the Harvey Agent in plain language. https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/harvey ailegalindex.com:change:6aaea9fcafa54bf67064faa2 Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Product / capability General Legal Assistants Contract Review & Drafting Legal Research Harvey now lets users hand any action in a Review Table to the Harvey Agent in plain language. A team can turn a free text column into a fixed classification and rerun it, import metadata from an attached export as new columns, bulk edit cells, and flag and assign rows to a reviewer, all from one chat. Harvey's worked example is a privilege review: reclassifying the privilege column, mapping custodian data from a Relativity export and routing flagged rows to a named reviewer.

Why it matters: Review tables are where document review actually happens in Harvey, and until now every change meant rebuilding columns by hand. The privilege example is the one to test. Ask how the agent's edits are logged, and whether rerunning a column keeps the cells a reviewer has already verified.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Verified. Type: Product / capability.

Evidence: Vendor announcement

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Legora is rebuilding the research layer of its platform on a full ontology of the law and an AI native citator, built with technology from… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/legora ailegalindex.com:change:6aaea9fcafa54bf67064fab2 Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Product / capability General Legal Assistants Contract Review & Drafting Legal Research Legora is rebuilding the research layer of its platform on a full ontology of the law and an AI native citator, built with technology from its Qura and Wexler acquisitions. The ontology maps how authorities rank and relate, including amendments, holdings versus dissents and temporal validity, and a team of former publisher attorney editors sets and audits the citator standard. It is in limited beta now, with general availability planned for Q4.

Why it matters: Citator status is the part of legal research AI buyers have had to take on faith, and it is where the sanctions cases came from. Legora says it has cataloged more than 50 distinct ways AI fails at legal research, which hands buyers a checklist to test any research tool against. Until Q4, treat this as a beta to evaluate, not something to rely on in a filing.

Impact: High. Verification: Verified. Type: Product / capability.

Evidence: Vendor announcement

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Harvey introduced Contract Review Agents, in early access through a waitlist. https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/harvey ailegalindex.com:change:6aa5904d7b2eefda1d34c26d Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Product / capability General Legal Assistants Contract Review & Drafting Legal Research Harvey introduced Contract Review Agents, in early access through a waitlist. A team builds an agent from its executed contracts, negotiation guidelines and playbooks, then answers a guided interview about how it applies those standards in practice, such as the liability cap it proposes and the fallback it will accept, or which clauses always escalate; the agent then delivers a first pass review of each redline with recommended edits, reasoning and citations to the sources behind each decision. Precedent benchmarking compares a counterparty's proposal clause by clause against positions the team has accepted in executed contracts, and the agent flags where recent negotiated outcomes have drifted from its own standards and proposes an updated position for the team to review.

Why it matters: This is the difference between a playbook and a precedent bank made into a product. A playbook records the stated position; the executed contracts record what the team actually accepted, and in house teams have always negotiated from the second while writing down the first. The drift detection is the feature to watch, because an agent that can tell a team its playbook is six months out of date is doing a job that nobody currently owns.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Verified. Type: Product / capability.

Evidence: Vendor announcement

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Harvey's 9 September release note puts user level Memory into the product across the Assistant, the Word add in and Playbooks, two weeks… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/harvey ailegalindex.com:change:6aa5904d7b2eefda1d34c26c Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Product / capability General Legal Assistants Contract Review & Drafting Legal Research Harvey's 9 September release note puts user level Memory into the product across the Assistant, the Word add in and Playbooks, two weeks after its 26 August early access announcement. A memory is a standing instruction such as a drafting style, a negotiating posture or a jurisdiction of admission, saved on request or when a prompt signals a preference, confirmed on a card at the point of saving, and then applied in future sessions across the web app, Outlook and Word, with Harvey citing the memory it used the way it cites a source. Every memory sits in Personal Settings where it can be edited, searched, deleted or switched off, admins control whether Memory is on and for whom, and Harvey states that individual memories are never used to train models.

Why it matters: Memory is where a legal AI product either earns or loses the confidentiality argument, because what it remembers about a lawyer's clients and positions is exactly what a firm does not want quietly accumulating. Harvey has chosen the opposite of the consumer pattern: nothing is stored without a visible confirmation, everything stored is listed and deletable, and the vendor has said in writing that memories do not train models. Scope today is the individual user only; memory shared across a matter or an organization is described as next, and that is the version that will need a policy.

Impact: High. Verification: Verified. Type: Product / capability.

Evidence: Vendor documentation

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Lexroom acquired Query Juriste, a French legal AI research company, and Praven Intelekt, a Bulgarian legal AI assistant, in its first… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/lexroom ailegalindex.com:change:6aa5904d7b2eefda1d34c26e Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Acquisition / corporate Legal Research General Legal Assistants Contract Review & Drafting Lexroom acquired Query Juriste, a French legal AI research company, and Praven Intelekt, a Bulgarian legal AI assistant, in its first acquisitions since founding. Query Juriste brings a research platform connected to more than five million French and European legal documents, with roughly 300 customers and 1,000 paying users; Praven Intelekt brings more than 900 customers and Lexroom's first presence in Central and Eastern Europe. Both founding teams join Lexroom, the acquired brands transition to Lexroom over time, and the company now operates in Italy, Germany, Spain, France and Bulgaria.

Why it matters: Lexroom's argument is that each civil law jurisdiction needs its own certified source base rather than one model trained on everything, and buying local companies with local corpora is that argument executed. A firm working across those five markets gets one vendor rather than five; a firm in France or Bulgaria should expect the product it bought from the smaller company to change name, and possibly shape, as the integration proceeds.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Partially Verified. Type: Acquisition / corporate.

Evidence: Trade press

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Harvey released Agentic Vault Search to general availability and opened Agentic Vault Organization in Early Access. https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/harvey ailegalindex.com:change:6aa5904d7b2eefda1d34c26b Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Product / capability General Legal Assistants Contract Review & Drafting Legal Research Harvey released Agentic Vault Search to general availability and opened Agentic Vault Organization in Early Access. Search lets a user attach a whole Vault, or work inside a Space with Vaults attached, and have the Harvey Agent locate the relevant documents from signals such as folder placement, naming convention and uploader rather than exact keywords, operating under the user's own Vault permissions and ethical walls with every file it touches logged to the workspace audit trail. Organization takes a plain language instruction such as sorting a data room by counterparty and agreement type, proposes a plan showing every rename, move and tag before anything changes, executes only on confirmation, can undo the most recent set of changes, and never edits file content.

Why it matters: The interesting part is the oversight design rather than the search. An agent that restructures a discovery production or a closing data room is exactly the kind of tool a firm's risk committee asks about, and Harvey has answered the three usual questions in the announcement itself: it inherits the user's permissions, it shows its plan first, and it cannot touch content. Organization is early access through a Harvey representative, so only Search is available to buy today.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Verified. Type: Product / capability.

Evidence: Vendor announcement

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Harvey rebuilt Playbook Review as a multi agent system. https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/harvey ailegalindex.com:change:6a9c2c3cec4ad2f765994252 Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Model / architecture General Legal Assistants Contract Review & Drafting Legal Research Harvey rebuilt Playbook Review as a multi agent system. The change is architectural rather than user facing: the work of checking a contract against a playbook is now distributed across cooperating agents instead of running as a single pass.

Why it matters: Playbook review is the workflow most in house teams buy this category for, so how it is built matters to anyone evaluating depth rather than demo quality. A vendor publishing its own architecture change is also, by itself, a data point on how much it is willing to say about how the product works.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Verified. Type: Model / architecture.

Evidence: Vendor announcement

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Harvey added opt in access to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1, naming the model and its version. https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/harvey ailegalindex.com:change:6a9c2c3cec4ad2f76599424f Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Model / architecture General Legal Assistants Contract Review & Drafting Legal Research Harvey added opt in access to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1, naming the model and its version. The vendor positions it as strongest on complex, document heavy analysis, with the largest gain over Fable 5 in litigation and dispute resolution, and points to public leaderboard results on Artificial Analysis and Vals rather than an internal figure alone. The same post discloses that Fable models may involve data processing practices differing from existing customer agreements, that zero data retention is available to eligible customers only under a time bound exemption pending Anthropic's Enterprise Frontier Safeguards rollout, and that Anthropic offers no regional processing for Fable 5.1, so all data is processed in the United States.

Why it matters: Harvey naming the specific model behind a workflow, and letting customers choose it, is the disclosure behavior this axis grades. Most vendors in this index will not tell a buyer which model is running, so an opt in toggle with a named version is worth more than the performance claim attached to it. The retention and residency caveats published alongside it matter as much as the capability: a firm with data residency obligations is being told plainly that this model processes in the United States and that its zero retention position is time bound.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Verified. Type: Model / architecture.

Evidence: Vendor announcement

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Harvey released Horizon Scanning in early access, a regulatory and legislative monitoring feature. https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/harvey ailegalindex.com:change:6a9c2c3cec4ad2f76599424e Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Product / capability General Legal Assistants Contract Review & Drafting Legal Research Harvey released Horizon Scanning in early access, a regulatory and legislative monitoring feature. Users can customize which jurisdictions and topics raise an alert, and turn a surfaced change into a downstream artifact such as a memo or a policy update inside the platform.

Why it matters: Regulatory monitoring is one of the few legal workflows still routinely done by hand, usually by an associate reading newsletters. Moving it into the same tool that drafts the response is the part that matters here, because the monitoring was never the expensive step.

Impact: High. Verification: Verified. Type: Product / capability.

Evidence: Vendor announcement

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]]> Descrybe published a security page stating its data handling position: customer prompts, files and conversational history are not used to… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/descrybe ailegalindex.com:change:6aa41f3e4e7fcbac66fa9291 Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Privilege / confidentiality Legal Research General Legal Assistants Descrybe published a security page stating its data handling position: customer prompts, files and conversational history are not used to train Descrybe owned models; the primary model provider is OpenAI's API, with Descrybe opted out of training and OpenAI abuse monitoring logs retained up to 30 days; uploaded files are discarded once text is extracted; research history can be deleted by the user at any time, with no zero retention mode offered; data is stored on DigitalOcean in the New York region on multi tenant infrastructure, encrypted in transit and at rest; the product runs on individual user accounts with no shared or matter based workspaces; and Descrybe holds no SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification of its own, with SOC 2 work begun. Subprocessors are listed with links to each provider's attestation.

Why it matters: For a solo or small firm buyer this page answers the four questions a client's outside counsel guidelines will ask before the tool touches a matter: who processes the data, where it sits, whether it trains anything, and how it is deleted. It also says plainly what it lacks, no SOC 2 yet and no matter level walls, which is more useful than a badge, because a firm can plan around a stated limit and cannot plan around silence.

Impact: High. Verification: Verified. Type: Privilege / confidentiality.

Evidence: Vendor documentation

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]]> Descrybe published a coverage page enumerating its primary law corpus court by court: 492 courts and tribunals and 10,969,112 opinions as… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/descrybe ailegalindex.com:change:6aa41d6a59e6c9bcedc9128a Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Product / capability Legal Research General Legal Assistants Descrybe published a coverage page enumerating its primary law corpus court by court: 492 courts and tribunals and 10,969,112 opinions as of 18 July 2026, across federal, state, bankruptcy, specialized and agency, and tribal courts, plus statutes, regulations, constitutions, session laws and court rules, with an opinion count and a first to most recent date range for every court. The vendor's earlier public figure was 3.6 million opinions across state supreme and appellate courts.

Why it matters: A per court date range is the thing a researcher checks before trusting a search for last month's appellate decision, and almost no vendor in this category publishes one. It also shows where coverage stops, which is worth more to a buyer than a headline total: a trial court whose opinions end in 2014 is a limit to plan around rather than one to discover in a brief.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Verified. Type: Product / capability.

Evidence: Vendor documentation

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