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DeepJudge opens AI handoff protocol, Harvey in beta
DeepJudge has published Agent Handoff Protocol, an open specification that lets one AI product pass a user's goal, files, chat history and prior output to another so a task carries on instead of restarting. Harvey says its implementation enters beta this month, and Thomson Reuters has stated support without committing to a date or a scope. For firms the practical stake is switching cost: if the protocol takes hold, moving between legal AI tools mid task stops meaning re-uploading documents and rebuilding prompts, which weakens single-vendor lock-in at renewal time.
SourceDeepJudge
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Kinstellar picks Laurel AI to automate lawyer timekeeping
Kinstellar has picked Laurel AI to capture billable time automatically for roughly 400 lawyers, with the rollout starting in early autumn and an upgrade to the Aderant Sierra finance system following later in the season. Firm leadership told Legal IT Insider the aim is to cut daily timesheet work from a few hours to 10 or 20 minutes and to shorten the time to cash cycle. This is a selection with deployment still ahead, not a system already in production, so treat it as a buying signal rather than a results story.
SourceLegal IT Insider
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Reed Smith and Lineal team up on AI-led investigations
Reed Smith Legal Solutions and legal technology provider Lineal announced a collaboration to run corporate and regulatory investigations as a data analysis problem rather than a conventional eDiscovery exercise, using generative AI, analytics and visualisation across enterprise data. The two say they have spent the past year developing the approach together. No product, pricing, client, headcount or launch date is named, so for now this is a direction of travel for buyers of investigation services rather than something anyone can purchase.
SourceReed Smith