4 stories on AI in courts, ethics rules, regulation and legal software, each in a sentence or two with a link to the original source.
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Harvey review tables can now pull in new documents with one click
Harvey said Nov. 9 that its Review Tables, which pull the same answers out of many documents at once and lay them out one row per document, can now stay connected to the folder (Harvey calls it a Vault) the documents came from. When new files land there, for example from a deal data room (the online folder where a seller shares records with a buyer) or a document management system like iManage, the table shows it's out of date, and one Sync click adds the new files and runs the same questions on them while keeping the rows already reviewed. Harvey's examples include deal due diligence (the review of a company's records before a purchase) and group claims that arrive in waves. If your firm reviews documents that keep coming in, this cuts the manual step of checking the folder against the table file by file, but someone still has to check the new answers.
Aderant completes an independent security exam for five cloud products
Aderant, which makes law firm billing, timekeeping and business software, said Nov. 9 that an outside CPA firm finished a SOC 2 Type 2 exam of Expert Sierra, vi by Aderant, iTimekeep, Onyx and BillBlast. SOC 2 is a standard audit of a vendor's controls; Type 2 means the auditor checked that the controls actually worked over a period of time, not just that they were designed well. This exam covered security, availability and confidentiality, and the review periods all ended Sept. 30, 2026, starting Oct. 1, 2025 for three of the products, Nov. 1, 2025 for Onyx and only July 1, 2026 for BillBlast. Aderant says firms can request the report through its trust center. If you use or are weighing these products, ask for the report and read any exceptions, the places where the auditor found a control didn't work as described, not just the press release.
Agiloft and Legora connect contract records to Legora's AI workspace
Legora and Agiloft, a contract management system, announced a partnership Nov. 9 that will let shared customers search their Agiloft contracts from inside Legora in plain language and use stored details such as the other party, key dates and obligations. Work done in Legora will be able to be saved back to Agiloft as a new version, a separate document or a replacement, and Agiloft's permissions will decide who can see or overwrite what. The rollout is in phases, starting with making Agiloft agreements available in Legora; the companies did not give dates for the later phases. This is aimed at in-house legal teams, so it matters to most small firms only if a client runs both tools.
Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 at a lower price
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2 on Nov. 9, models it built for its hardest technical work. They are the same underlying model: Fable is open to all users, and Mythos is for organizations approved through its cybersecurity and life sciences access programs. Anthropic says they produce answers up to 30% faster than the 5.1 versions and cost less. AI companies bill by the token, a small chunk of text of a few letters: input tokens are what you send the model and output tokens are what it writes back. Both cost $8 per million input tokens and $40 per million output tokens at standard speed, or $16 and $80 with an optional faster mode. Anthropic itself recommends starting most coding and knowledge tasks on Claude Opus 5.5 and moving up only for harder jobs. Many legal AI products are built on models like these, so if a vendor says it upgraded, ask which model it now uses and whether your price changes.