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.
Every major legal AI vendor shipped autonomous agents in Q1 2026. Here's what they actually do, what can go wrong, and why your ethical walls weren't built for this.