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IBL News | New York

Google expanded ​its Gemini Enterprise AI platform last month with new tools for lawyers and law firms, joining the race among tech companies in the legal sector.

According to the company, the new Gemini Enterprise for Legal plug-in will help law firms use a suite of AI agents to manage both routine and complex work, including legal ​research, drafting filings, client and case management, and ​other legal tasks.  And will integrate with legal software and data platforms, including Thomson Reuters, Harvey, Legora, and others.

Alphabet’s Google launched Gemini Enterprise for business customers in ⁠October.

A 2026 report on the legal industry’s adoption of AI from Deloitte found that law firms are investing heavily in the technology as part of ​a transformation that’s still in its early stages.

• Anthropic and other rival companies have also expanded their enterprise offerings in recent months

• Thomson Reuters, which owns Reuters and the Westlaw legal research database, recently launched a proprietary LLM called Thomson 1.0, trained on ‌its legal ⁠research content and built for professional work. It said the model is built on open-source technology and draws on decades of its own “authoritative” legal content.

• Some other large law firms have formed strategic partnerships with AI providers and, in some instances, are building their own AI platforms.

Google said Weil Gotshal, Cleary Gottlieb, Freshfields, and Williams & Connolly are among the firms collaborating with it on Gemini Enterprise for Legal.

IBL News | New York

OpenClaw released its largest update yesterday, comprising over 16,000 pull requests and built by 933 contributors, including 569 first-time contributors.

This update, which took nearly two months, touches every part of OpenClaw, including installation, messaging, memory, skills, models, automations, the browser and native apps, plugins, security, and a very long tail of fixes.

“We started by simplifying installation and rebuilding the browser app as a first-class experience, but doing that properly meant carrying the cleanup through the rest of OpenClaw until it became OpenClaw 2.0,” said the organization behind OpenClaw.

OpenClaw 2.0 installs starts with what is already on someone’s computer, including existing ChatGPT or Claude subscriptions, API keys, and local models.

“We cut or simplified a lot of configuration and moved the rest out of initial setup, letting people get to a first conversation faster and finish setting up their Claw by talking to it.”