Sep 23, 2026 · 59 min · 7 segments
Each week, the leading journalists in legal tech choose their top stories of the week to discuss with our other panelists. This week's topics: 00:00 Introductions (02:48) OpenAI Launches…
Rhys DipshanPanelist
Bob AmbrogiHost
Joe PatricePanelist
Caroline HillPanelistCanadian Legal Tech JournalistPanelist
Victor LeePanelist
Niki BlackPanelist
Probably, I think without doubt, the biggest news of the week in the legal tech world was the introduction by OpenAI or the rollout by OpenAI of its Astra for Law, which is a version of its latest model, GPT-6 Astra, which has been configured for legal work It includes a legal search index that can do legal research and it's been configured with custom instructions for Knowing how to do legal writing and legal analysis and there were also there was also a rollout of a bunch of plugins from legal tech vendors which is part of the reason our inboxes are all getting flooded today, I think because weirdly Although we had a media briefing earlier this week, some of us were on it.
Not all of us were on the media briefing, but they only mentioned a couple of the companies that were providing plug-ins.
And then no sooner did, for me, I'm sure others too, no sooner did my blog post go up than I started getting all the emails from PR people at companies saying, you know, we got a new ChatGPT plug-in too.
And I think it was interesting that during the media briefing, Jason Bomeg, who's the former founder of Ironclad, is now leading this effort at OpenAI.
He kind of bristled when somebody kind of suggested this was OpenAI getting into legal, and he kind of made a point of saying, you know, we're not just getting into legal, we've been in legal from the start, and this is just a different manifestation of it, which is probably fair.
I mean, OpenAI was behind Co-Counsel and behind ARBI originally, and as a matter of fact, invested in both of those and gave them early access to their products.
So it's not at all inappropriate to say that they've been in this kind of since the beginning, but they've always been in more of a kind of supporting role, you might say, and here they're kind of taking more of a lead role.
And the release this week, week essentially means people can do stuff directly on chat EPT enterprise.
Um, so it is kind of like directly offering, um, something to the legal industry, as opposed to like, you know, just kind of like powering the tools behind the scenes.
And it was interesting how in the press release they sent over, they were like, oh, this new configured large language model can be helpful to Harvey and Cora, too.
And it, you know, like probably comes around the same time as like Harvey and bouncing it like fine tuned.
Probably, I think without doubt, the biggest news of the week in the legal tech world was the introduction by OpenAI or the rollout by OpenAI of its Astra for Law, which is a version of its latest model, GPT-6 Astra, which has been configured for legal work It includes a legal search index that can do legal research and it's been configured with custom instructions for Knowing how to do legal writing and legal analysis and there were also there was also a rollout of a bunch of plugins from legal tech vendors which is part of the reason our inboxes are all getting flooded today, I think because weirdly Although we had a media briefing earlier this week, some of us were on it.
Not all of us were on the media briefing, but they only mentioned a couple of the companies that were providing plug-ins.
And then no sooner did, for me, I'm sure others too, no sooner did my blog post go up than I started getting all the emails from PR people at companies saying, you know, we got a new ChatGPT plug-in too.
And I think it was interesting that during the media briefing, Jason Bomeg, who's the former founder of Ironclad, is now leading this effort at OpenAI.
He kind of bristled when somebody kind of suggested this was OpenAI getting into legal, and he kind of made a point of saying, you know, we're not just getting into legal, we've been in legal from the start, and this is just a different manifestation of it, which is probably fair.
I mean, OpenAI was behind Co-Counsel and behind ARBI originally, and as a matter of fact, invested in both of those and gave them early access to their products.
So it's not at all inappropriate to say that they've been in this kind of since the beginning, but they've always been in more of a kind of supporting role, you might say, and here they're kind of taking more of a lead role.
And the release this week, week essentially means people can do stuff directly on chat EPT enterprise.
Um, so it is kind of like directly offering, um, something to the legal industry, as opposed to like, you know, just kind of like powering the tools behind the scenes.
And it was interesting how in the press release they sent over, they were like, oh, this new configured large language model can be helpful to Harvey and Cora, too.
And it, you know, like probably comes around the same time as like Harvey and bouncing it like fine tuned.
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