Legal AI Arms Race

Harvey ($11B) and Legora ($5.6B) have a combined $17B valuation, but both are built on foundation models that just launched their own legal platforms — with Harvey as a connector inside Claude.

A former Latham associate vibe-coded a Harvey clone in two weeks and open-sourced it. The tech wasn't the hard part — and that's the point. Here's what mid-size firms should learn about what legal AI vendors actually sell.

Anthropic launched Claude for Legal with 12 practice-area plugins and 20+ MCP connectors — positioning Claude as the hub that legal tech plugs into, not just the model underneath it.