Caroline Hill

Edinburgh founded legal AI company Wordsmith AI today announced a $14m extension to their $70m Series B, led by new investment from Intact Private

Hi and welcome to the July/August Orange Rag, which is essential reading for everyone trying to keep up with the latest legal tech news and trends.

Law firms have invested heavily in legal technology and AI solutions, but investment alone doesn't deliver transformation.

Nobody has said how many times a frontier model has crossed a boundary its developers believed closed, or how many of those crossings were reported. This one surfaced because the victim found it first.

Laurel and Thomson Reuters today (5 August) announced a partnership designed to help customers gain greater visibility into how AI-powered legal work contributes to operational and business performance, helping them measure the value of their technology investments.

On 28 July 2026, Linklaters and Webber Wentzel announced that their alliance will conclude in November, ending a 13-year arrangement between the UK and South African headquartered firms.

See below for opportunities to advertise In a forthcoming report from Legal IT Insider, we examine how the security foundations of the law

Founded in 2025 by CEO Sanay Shajith and CTO Meeth Naik, Lawdie is aiming to become the AI-powered back office for law firms. The startup automates operational tasks ranging from billing and matter management to document generation and file routing. Lawdie is betting that the future of legal AI lies not just in helping lawyers practise law, but in removing the operational burden that gets in the way.

Anthropic has hired Robert Mahari as head of Claude for Legal, helping law firms, in-house teams and legal tech companies move “from product to GTM.”

Here's some of the most interesting legal tech stories from just the second half of this week, all of which have a connecting governance angle running through them.