2026 means stabilizing AI tools, not launching new ones
2026 isn't about new AI capabilities — it's about stabilizing the ones we already have. For product counsel, governance built on shifting tools is governance built on sand.
Law-following AI turns legal compliance from afterthought into architecture
The authors suggest treating AI agents as "legal actors" — entities that bear duties — without granting them legal personhood.
The feature you refuse to ship says more than the one you launched
Legal AI vendors should publish what they refuse to build, not just what they ship. Architectural constraints aren't limitations — they're competitive differentiators. The first privilege breach will prove who got this right.
When Robots Negotiate: How Human Tactics Shape AI Deals
Advancing AI Negotiations: New Theory and Evidence from a Large-Scale Autonomous Negotiations Competition Authors: Michelle Vaccaro, Michael Caoson, Harang Ju, Sinan Aral, and Jared R. Curhan
The Only Legal AI Moat That Matters: Your Institutional Knowledge
Your company just licensed the same AI tools as your competitors. Same models. Same infrastructure. Same vendor capabilities. So what makes your lega…
Harvey's relationship status: It's complicated
Winston Weinberg's Davos interview had one line that changes positioning for legal tech companies and procurement for in-house teams: law firms will build "technology arms" within two years. Not technology partnerships. Internal technology capabilities.
The Promise and Peril of an AI Jury
Ultimately, the study serves as a crucial reality check. The goal isn't just to build an AI that can produce fluent text, but one that can reflect the complex, messy, and nuanced reality of human judgment.
Harvey's Product Strategy
"The in-house teams are like about a year behind I’d say... most of them now are interested in like piloting the tools and checking them out, but change management across a lot of in-house teams [hasn't] happened." — Winston Weinberg, Co-Founder & CEO, Harvey
