Updated May 2026
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The platforms driving the 2026 legal AI market.
Counsel AI Corporation (doing business as Harvey)
An AI platform built specifically for legal professionals to automate and enhance complex legal tasks like research, drafting, and analysis. As of March 2026, Harvey is valued at $11 billion and used by over 100,000 lawyers across 1,300+ organizations.
Thomson Reuters (Originally developed by Casetext, acquired by Thomson Reuters in August 2023\)
An AI legal assistant from Thomson Reuters, now bundled exclusively with Westlaw, that helps legal professionals perform multi-step research, review documents, prepare for depositions, and draft legal memos. CoCounsel Legal (launched August 2025) adds Deep Research agents that work autonomously across the Westlaw database.
LexisNexis (part of RELX Group)
LexisNexis's flagship legal AI platform — rebranded from Lexis+ AI to Lexis+ with Protégé in February 2026. Combines conversational research, agentic drafting for contracts/motions/briefs, and Protégé Workrooms (secure cross-firm collaboration), all grounded in LexisNexis's authoritative content and Shepard's citation validation.
OpenAI
A widely known conversational AI assistant powered by OpenAI's GPT models (GPT-5 family as of 2026), capable of generating text, summarizing information, answering questions, and assisting with various language tasks. Useful for general-purpose legal work but carries serious hallucination risks — federal courts have sanctioned attorneys for filing AI-fabricated citations.
Anthropic
An AI assistant from Anthropic, known for strong performance on document analysis, a 1M-token context window (Sonnet 4.6/Opus 4.6/Opus 4.7), and a safety-focused training approach. As of 2026, the lineup is Haiku 4.5, Sonnet 4.6, and Opus 4.7.
Spellbook (formerly Rally)
An AI copilot for lawyers that integrates with Microsoft Word to assist with drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts using generative AI.
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