Draftwise, LegalZoom, Laurel, DISCO + More – Artificial Lawyer

Given the recent news surge, here’s a few key items you may have missed in this week’s AL News Summary.

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After its ground-breaking deal with Perplexity, LegalZoom has announced a partnership with Eazewell aimed at simplifying the process of creating wills, trusts, and other estate planning documents through AI.

The collaboration will give Eazewell users access to LegalZoom’s estate planning platform, enabling families to generate ‘legally sound, personalized end-of-life documents in minutes’.

Features of the partnership include:

Streamlined Onboarding with Eazewell’s Advanced AI – A step-by-step interface that simplifies gathering key information before accessing LegalZoom’s Will & Trust platform.

Integrated Legal Review – Optional access to LegalZoom’s attorney network. 

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Legl has integrated with Clio to deliver ‘frictionless compliance and onboarding workflows’, and offers ongoing AML risk monitoring. This Legl said, means ‘shifting firms from one-time checks to continuous oversight, a major step forward in how law firms manage regulatory risk’.

Real-time risk alerts and seamless data syncing will help firms deliver a faster, more secure, and more client-friendly experience with compliance embedded throughout the process, they added.

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DISCO has launched its generative AI automated review tool in the European Union and the UK. They explained that it can provide ‘unprecedented speeds with accuracy metrics that substantially surpass typical human review’ for eDiscovery needs.

The solution is capable of reviewing 32,000 documents per hour on average – the equivalent of a 640-person review team working at industry-standard speeds – with precision and recall metrics exceeding 90 percent in many cases, better than the industry standard of 75 percent for human review.

CEO Eric Friedrichsen, said: ‘There is a growing appetite for generative AI legal tools in the EU and UK, and our Auto Review technology is the one of the most-requested DISCO capabilities among leading law firms and corporations because of its ability to dramatically reduce the time and resources involved in the early stages of litigation without sacrificing accuracy or relevance.’

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Laurel has bagged $100m in Series C funding led by IVP, with participation from GV (Google Ventures). The move comes as they expand more into other verticals, such as accounting and consulting, and have picked up clients such as Ernst & Young and Grant Thornton.

Over the last 12 months, Laurel grew ARR +300% at double-digit scale, increased usage by +500%, and works with +100 of the top legal, accounting, and consulting firms across US, UK, EU, Australia, and Canada.

Laurel’s Time platform uses AI to automatically categorize, describe, and analyze how professionals spend their time.

Ryan Alshak, founder and CEO of Laurel, commented: ‘Industries like legal and accounting are best at understanding their input (time), but still struggle to price value. On the flip side, industries like consulting and financial services understand value, but operate blind to the true cost of creation.

‘While all other industries have been obsessed about optimizing their supply chain, the supply chain of knowledge work – which represents over 50% of Global GDP – has never been surfaced. This funding helps us solve this fundamental challenge while giving firms the data foundation they need to deploy AI strategically. We’re not just automating time – we’re creating the time intelligence layer that will transform how all knowledge industries operate.’

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DraftWise has launched its AI Associate drafting agent that can handle drafting, review, and markup needs using ‘precedent-based insights and firm-endorsed language to deliver higher-quality contracts more efficiently than ever before’. 

The company said that ‘DraftWise AI Associate is unique because it can access your firm’s entire precedent library. It can search through millions of documents to find the right examples for your particular deal. DraftWise suggests solutions grounded in your firm’s best language, not hallucinating black-box knowledge from the internet, or based on just a small selection of documents’.

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Eve has launched a voice-based ‘AI Intake Specialist’, which helps plaintiff law firms to capture and qualify potential clients, ‘addressing the critical revenue impact of missed opportunities during off-hours and overflow periods’.

Jay Madheswaran, CEO and co-founder of Eve, said: ‘Our goal is to provide plaintiff law firms with advanced tools that fit easily into how they already work, helping them manage client communications with greater precision and efficiency from the very first interaction.’

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Consilio has bought TrueLaw, a legal AI research lab based in New York City. The acquisition brings with it its proprietary Expert Legal Model (ELM) and advanced narrative generation capabilities that ‘transform complex legal datasets into clear, actionable insights’.

The acquisition also adds ‘sophisticated AI-powered investigation tools, automated timeline generation, contradiction detection, and firm-specific language model fine-tuning’ to Consilio’s portfolio.

Andy Macdonald, CEO of Consilio, commented: ‘This acquisition represents a significant strategic investment in expanding our technology leadership and demonstrates our unwavering commitment to delivering the most advanced AI solutions in the legal industry.’

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So, there you go. Never a dull moment in the world of legal tech, especially these days!

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Legal Innovators Conferences New York and UK – Both In November ’25

If you’d like to stay ahead of the legal AI curve….then come along to Legal Innovators New York, Nov 19 + 20, where the brightest minds will be sharing their insights on where we are now and where we are heading. 

And also, Legal Innovators UK – Nov 4 + 5 + 6

Both events, as always, are organised by the awesome Cosmonauts team! 

Please get in contact with them if you’d like to take part.