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Avvoka opens Curate, an AI template builder, in beta(artificiallawyer.com)
Avvoka has put Curate into beta with a set of AmLaw 100 and global firms, with general availability still to come. It reads a firm's past deal documents, surfaces the competing versions of each clause it finds, then lets a lawyer choose the wording and fallback positions to standardise on, producing a bracketed and footnoted Word template or a feed into another drafting system. It runs on OpenAI and Anthropic models and arrived in the same week as Avvoka's partnership with Harvey.
Product UpdatesAvvoka, Harvey, OpenAI +13 sources
SRA warns solicitors after 42 reports of AI misuse(sra.org.uk)
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has issued a warning notice on misuse of AI after receiving 42 reports between July 2025 and July 2026. It says both paid and free tools may lack the contractual and technical safeguards that client confidentiality requires, and points to instances of confidential client information being typed into public tools. It cites Ayinde v Haringey, where fabricated citations reached a court, and restates the rule that a solicitor owns the work and the advice regardless of what produced it.
E-Courts4 sources
BigHand acquires legal pricing AI specialist Ayora(bighand.com)
BigHand has acquired Ayora, a London company that applies AI and a data enrichment layer to law firm financial data so pricing teams can quote and forecast matters from structured history rather than raw exports. Terms were not disclosed, the deal upgrades a partnership the two struck earlier in 2026, and the whole Ayora team joins BigHand. The first combined capability is slated for BigHand Matter Pricing Cloud before the end of 2026, so firms already running that product should expect this as a roadmap addition rather than a separate purchase.
AcquisitionBigHand, Ayora5 sources
Jigsaw moves from deal diagrams into entity management(legaltechnology.com)
Jigsaw, the UK company whose visual tool lawyers use to map transaction structures, is extending into end-to-end entity management, according to a Legal IT Insider exclusive. Its argument is that it already touches those entities at every stage of a deal, across law firms, accountancy firms and their corporate clients. Founded in 2020 and backed by a $15m Series A in 2024, it now counts all ten of the top accountancy firms as customers, which is the base it plans to sell the wider product into.
Product UpdatesJigsaw1 source