Meritas strengthens its industry leading Legal Tech program with newest collaborator August. March 18, 2026 Meritas, the premier global alliance of independent business law firms, today announced that August has joined its Legal Tech Education Program, further strengthening the fast-growing initiative designed to help member firms leverage technology to optimize efficient, transparent, and responsive service to clients worldwide. August is a legal AI workspace built for modern legal teams. Its platform helps law firms and in-house teams review, analyze, and draft complex legal documents more efficiently by combining AI-assisted workflows with structured, auditable outputs, directly within tools lawyers already use, including Microsoft Word, Outlook, and SharePoint. This approach enables law firms to adopt AI in a governed, practical way while maintaining lawyer oversight and client confidence. "August works across a lawyer's entire workflow, from email to document review to drafting, with context that follows the matter instead of treating each task in isolation," said August co-founder Thomas Bueler-Faudree. "We're providing Meritas member firms with customized tutorials and onboarding that enable legal teams to handle discovery work, due diligence, and how to maintain their standards while working faster." The Meritas Legal Tech Education Program has gained significant momentum and now includes six best-in-class legal technology partners delivering education programming to Meritas member firms. So far in 2026, the program has added three legal tech companies to the program and renewed three original partners to deliver highly curated, custom curriculum exclusively to its member firms. "At its core, the Meritas Legal Tech Education Program exists to benefit Meritas member firm clients," said Marti Phillips, head of legal technology at Meritas. "Clients expect great efficiency, predictability, and transparency from Meritas member firms, along with superior, quality service. By keeping our firms ahead of technology opportunities and equipping them to thoughtfully and responsibly adopt what works best, they deliver faster turnaround, clearer communication, and consistency across matters and jurisdictions." Phillips, a legal tech veteran who joined Meritas in 2025, notes that law firms face challenges when navigating a crowded and rapidly evolving legal tech landscape. The Meritas Legal Tech Education Program significantly reduces risks in legal tech investment and deployment, accelerating tech-driven outcomes. Gained knowledge and mastery enables lawyers to spend less time on administrative and document-heavy tasks and more time focusing on client strategy, priorities, and outcomes. About Meritas Meritas is a global alliance of independent, market-leading law firms that provides legal services to companies looking to effectively capture opportunities and solve issues anywhere in the world. Clients benefit from local knowledge, collective strength and new efficiencies when they work with Meritas law firms. The personal attention and care they experience is part of Meritas' industry-first commitment to the utmost in quality of service and putting client priorities above all else. Founded in 1990, Meritas has member firms in 245 markets worldwide with over 9,300 dedicated, collaborative lawyers. About August August is a legal AI workspace that helps lawyers handle the full spectrum of their work, from drafting and redlining to research and client communication. Unlike tools that solve isolated tasks, August works across a lawyer's entire workflow with context that moves seamlessly between web, email, and documents. The company has raised $7M in funding from New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Pear VC, Afore Capital, Stanford Law School, and executives at OpenAI, Bain Capital Ventures, and Ramp, and serves law firms ranging from solo practitioners to midsize practices. Learn more at www.august.law.

Aiming to make AI more easily accessible for smaller law firms, legal AI company August launches self-service platform and free educational library. Aiming to remove the sales-cycle obstacles that have kept generative AI tools out of reach for many solo and smaller-firm lawyers, August today launched immediate self-service access to its legal AI platform, including a two-week free trial, alongside a comprehensive library of over 100 video tutorials. For the first time, the company says, smaller law [...]