LawVu, a platform for corporate legal teams, has launched LawVu LegalOS, an AI-powered operating system designed exclusively for in-house legal departments. The Tauranga-based company describes it as the evolution of a decade building infrastructure for corporate legal teams. LegalOS uses agentic AI capabilities built on a unified data foundation to automate legal workflows, from managing business requests and contracts to tracking outside counsel spend. The system can autonomously execute tasks like creating matters from emails, generating responses and updating stakeholders, whilst maintaining human oversight based on risk profiles. The platform includes five capabilities: LawVu Assistant for conversational queries, an Agentic Workflow Builder, AI Intake for request triage, LawVu Draft for contract work, and an MCP Server for governance. LawVu serves hundreds of legal teams globally, including Discord, Etsy and Pokémon Company.

LawVu launches updated AI workspace for in-house teams. New features include a self-service agentic workflow builder, AI-powered triage and new drafting capabilities. * LawVu announced the release of LawVu LegalOS, an AI-powered workflow platform for in-house teams. * LegalOS features include AI-powered drafting, triage and a workflow builder. * The platform is designed to help in-house teams automate some workflows and leverage their historical data. This article has been updated with comments from LawVu co-founder and CEO Sam Kidd. On Tuesday, New Zealand-headquartered cloud-based legal workspace provider LawVu announced the launch of LawVU LegalOS, an artificial intelligence-powered platform for in-house teams. The release comes roughly six months after LawVu purchased legal drafting platform ClauseBase. What It Is: LawVu LegalOS is a workspace platform for in-house attorneys featuring a number of AI-powered features. LawVu Assistant is a conversational interface designed to answer questions, initiate workflows and manage requests for users in corporate legal departments and other enterprise teams. Agentic Workflow Builder is a self-service offering designed to allow users to build their own agentic workflows using natural language descriptions or a drag-and-drop feature. Users can incorporate tasks such as contract searches, approvals, and risk assessments and can set workflows to trigger automatically at specified times, based on certain events or to require manual initiation. The platform also includes AI-powered intake to triage and route incoming matters from sources including email, Microsoft Teams and Slack, as well as LawVu Draft, an AI-powered drafting tool designed to generate documents in line with organizational playbooks and clause libraries. LegalOS also includes a model context protocol (MCP) server to allow connections with other AI tools, including ChatGPT, Claude and Microsoft Copilot. LawVu co-founder and CEO Sam Kidd told Law.com the new agentic features allowed users to begin automating the work they were already doing inside of the platform. "The nice thing with the agentic framework is anything that you can do inside LawVu, where you point and click and do things, just becomes part and parcel, because the agents inside LawVu can just trigger any of the workflows," he said. Why It's Needed: LegalOS is designed to provide in-house attorneys with a unified platform for managing their work and interacting with other corporate departments. The platform is intended to allow LawVu users to automate some of the work they have previously performed manually within LawVu and to leverage the data and documents compiled by the platform. "What the technology enables us to do, is to allow people to interact with all the information that's stored in a way they've never really been able to do," Kidd said. "We've really been trying to build this workspace for corporate legal teams, but also for the wider business to engage with legal,... trying to make it easier for people to connect into the business." Under the Hood: LegalOS's agentic features were built on Microsoft Foundry, which leverages publicly available large language models that LawVu selects for specific tasks. Kidd noted that utilizing Foundry makes it easier for LawVu to build tools that work with the other software lawyers use. "Most organizations and enterprises that we deal with [are] Microsoft houses, and even inside organizations where they're utilizing Google, the legal team will still be on Microsoft products, because it's very hard to take a lawyer off Word," he said. The Competition: A number of vendors that serve in-house teams have announced new or updated AI platforms and major funding rounds in recent months. Streamline AI updated its platform for in-house teams with agentic tools in April, and enterprise legal management and contract lifecycle management company Onit released its Unity ELM platform in March. Sandstone publicly launched with a $10 million seed round in January, and Checkbox announced a $23 million Series A the same month, with the aim of enhancing its AI capabilities. Kidd said LawVu's focus on helping in-house teams with administrative work and its ability to handle a wide variety of tasks in the same workspace set the company apart. "We've really been focused on the administrative burden that sits with the corporate legal teams," he said. "We've been really focused on the process of how does everyone coordinate and work with each other." NOT FOR REPRINT

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