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Tracked Changes, Wednesday, September 23, 2026

What changed in legal AI · · 2 min read

  1. DISCO says pricing, not accuracy, is now the bigger barrier to legal AI adoption

    DISCO released its annual legal AI study on September 23, based on a survey of 104 people and 33 interviews, split between law firms and corporate legal departments. Participants raised, unprompted, the shift from annual subscriptions to token and credit pricing. DISCO says the share of firms adopting AI to meet client demand rose from 39% to 64%, and that 62% of respondents use AI agents.

    Source: DISCO · Read more: How to bill for AI-assisted legal work: hourly time, flat fees, tool costs and disclosure, How many lawyers use AI? Legal AI adoption statistics, reconciled

  2. NetDocuments lists its plugin in OpenAI's library so ChatGPT can search firm documents under existing permissions

    NetDocuments said on September 17 that its ChatGPT plugin is now in the OpenAI plugin library, where users can find and turn it on. The company says AI tools can use it to search and retrieve documents, find precedent, compare and summarize content and help draft from a firm's own work product. It says permissions and ethical walls stay intact. Pricing was not stated.

    Source: NetDocuments · Read more: What should a law firm's generative AI policy cover?

  3. Legora adds the American Law Institute's Restatements of the Law to its research platform

    Legora announced on September 23 a partnership with the American Law Institute to bring the Restatements of the Law into its platform. The company says its agent will be able to cite Restatement text as a source, and that the content will be linked into its ontology of case law. Legora did not give a date when users get access or any pricing.

    Source: Legora

  4. Harvey's custom agents now run inside Word and return edits as tracked changes

    Harvey said on September 23 that agents built in its Agent Builder now run in the Harvey for Word add-in, on the open document. Users can apply, comment on or discard each suggested edit, and applied edits appear as tracked changes. Harvey says the feature is available now. Custom workflows are not yet supported in Word. Pricing was not mentioned.

    Source: Harvey · Read more: What should a law firm's generative AI policy cover?