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Joe Heck resigns as Zip US CEO. Pacific Push Legal AI platform Harvey names Stewart Garret APAC vice president. 6:49pm yesterday The news: Legal AI company Harvey has appointed Stewart Garret as vice president for Asia-Pacific, effective 10 November, as the company continues to expand its regional presence. He will based in Singapore. The context: Garret brings extensive experience building and leading teams across Asia-Pacific, having previously held roles at Broadcom, MongoDB, and New Relic. In his new role, he will oversee Harvey's next phase of regional growth, deepen customer relationships and strengthen its teams, with a focus on aligning the company's expansion with customer needs. The appointment comes as Harvey continues to invest in its Asia-Pacific operations, with existing offices in Sydney and Singapore and a recently announced Tokyo office scheduled to open in early 2027. It follows the appointment Ashleigh Whittaker as a director of APAC strategy and country manager for Australia and New Zealand. Whittaker will work alongside Garret to shape Harvey's regional strategy and strengthen collaboration across its offices, while continuing to lead the Australia and New Zealand business. The source: Harvey media release Get sweat equity in your inbox. Australia's AI opportunity looks enormous, but so does the risk of a backlash. The Albanese government appears increasingly willing to bet on the boom. Brandon How · 10:59pm yesterday This week on the podcast, Firmus' failed float makes waves beyond Australia and a letter from Parliament's AI committee to the Prime Minister comes under scrutiny. Harshdeep Kaur, John McDuling, and James Hennessy · 4:32am yesterday Firmus' failed float is making waves far beyond Australia, as rising borrowing costs put the AI boom's biggest promises to the test. John McDuling · 15 October 2026

Harvey launches Legal Work Orchestration for matter management. 4 hours ago Harvey launched Legal Work Orchestration, a matter-management layer for tasks, reviews and notifications across legal workflows. Rongchai Wang Oct 15, 2026 16:32 UTC Harvey said on Thursday that it is launching Legal Work Orchestration, a new way to organize and manage legal matters inside its platform. The company said the feature is designed to connect phases, tasks, people and review points within a matter so AI agents can execute defined steps while lawyers review outputs at designated gates. Evidence and context. In a product blog post published on October 15, 2026, Harvey said the system is intended to give legal work more structure inside the software, rather than requiring teams to rebuild each matter from scratch using checklists, prior deals or informal institutional knowledge. The company framed the launch around repeatable legal processes such as M&A transactions and quarterly compliance reviews, where tasks, documents, instructions and reviewer assignments can be captured in reusable templates. Harvey said Legal Work Orchestration includes Space Templates, task-level context, commenting on tasks and notifications, along with updates that can be made from email. According to the company, an associate opening a new buy-side acquisition can start with a Space that already contains relevant phases, tasks, playbooks, agents, collaborators and review gates. Harvey also said tasks can be assigned to another lawyer or shared with a client while keeping matter context attached. The company described review controls as central to the product. In its example, an agent can complete a change-of-control review and produce a consent matrix, after which the designated partner is notified for approval. Harvey said once the partner approves the work, the task is completed and the next step can begin. The company added that the work performed by agents will remain transparent and auditable. Harvey positioned the release as part of a broader shift in how legal teams delegate work to software. The company said that before the release of Harvey II in August, every step delegated to Harvey required a lawyer to gather documents, write instructions and move output to the next stage manually. Harvey said it expects agents to take on an additional 20% of workflow steps over the next six months and to triple that share within a year. Those figures were presented as company expectations, not independently verified results. The launch comes alongside other recent Harvey announcements, including Motion to Dismiss Workflow co-developed with LexisNexis on October 7, 2026, and Agentic Search for Document Systems on September 30, 2026. Harvey also said on October 12, 2026, that it would open a Tokyo office. The company has been expanding its product set around legal workflow automation, though the source material does not specify how the new orchestration layer will affect revenue or usage.

Exclusive: Jylo unveils '3.0' with agentic workflows, Microsoft add-ins and AI spend controls. * October 13, 2026 Legal AI platform Jylo has launched Jylo 3.0, introducing a major overhaul that moves the company beyond AI-assisted document analysis and towards more autonomous, agent-driven legal workflows. The latest release, which is being rolled out initially to early adopter customer innovation and IT teams, adds a suite of new capabilities including Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel add-ins, configurable AI agents, workflow "actions", version-controlled document management, and granular controls over AI model consumption. The launch comes just six months after Jylo 2.0, which centred on project-based AI collaboration and workflows. According to co-founder and CEO Shawn Curran, Jylo 3.0 represents both a significant technology refresh and a shift in how users interact with AI. "We've moved into more of an agentic assistant," Curran told Legal IT Insider. "Assistants have gone from being single-shot, text-in, text-out systems to being workflows. You're spinning up workflow engines and agents under the hood to execute an outcome and provide work product back." One of the most significant enhancements is the introduction of Actions, which enable organisations to trigger downstream tasks from structured data extracted by AI. Rather than simply identifying information within documents, users can automatically generate reports, create PowerPoint presentations, redact content, assemble disclosure bundles or trigger bespoke workflows. "That gap at the end was always the output," said Curran. "Actions is the next thing. It's a much more autonomous capability against the structured set of data that's been extracted." Jylo has also introduced a new Library capability that allows organisations to build and manage specialist AI agents. These agents can be configured with specific skills, knowledge sources, templates, toolsets and integrations, enabling firms to create role-specific or task-specific assistants for activities such as due diligence, document review and transaction support. Underlying these developments is expanded support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations and a secure code interpreter, allowing agents to execute more complex tasks and interact with external systems. One firm involved in the early stages and signed up to roll out Jylo firmwide is Gateley, where Benjamin Carter, head of technology innovation at Gateley, told Legal IT Insider: "For us, version 3 is about moving away from being primarily focused on just being a playbook workflow automation platform to that bigger, broader workspace, because they're introducing agents and organizational knowledge and connected systems." In terms of why the firm selected Jylo over competitors Legora and Harvey, Carter said: "They're clearly significant players in the market, but for us it wasn't about choosing the biggest name. It was about finding the right fit and the right partner. We spent around six months road-testing Jylo before we made the decision to adopt it, and one of the things we really valued was the relationship. We've had direct access to the team, we've been able to influence the roadmap and we've been able to move quickly from identifying opportunities to developing real use cases." The 3.0 release also addresses a growing challenge facing enterprise AI deployments: cost control. A new credit management capability gives organisations visibility over AI consumption and allows administrators to allocate budgets, set limits, determine model access and manage usage at team or individual level. Administrators can also create custom-labelled AI models, abstracting away the growing complexity of underlying foundation models while controlling spend. "The customer should be in control," said Curran. "They should decide how models are allocated, how much is being spent, and who gets access to premium models." For legal sector customers, Jylo has further strengthened document governance by introducing version history, document check-in/check-out functionality and deeper integration with leading document management systems including iManage and NetDocuments. The addition of an AI-powered Excel add-in is expected to be particularly attractive to non-specialist users, enabling them to generate and analyse spreadsheets through natural language instructions rather than advanced Excel expertise. Commenting on the launch, James Grice, head of innovation and AI at Lawfront, told Legal Technology: "Lawfront has partnered with Jylo for some time now, and version 3 is the clearest example yet of what that partnership delivers. Legal Technology has been involved throughout the development, feeding in how its lawyers work day to day and what they actually need from legal AI, and the Jylo team have taken that seriously at every stage. "The result is a product that feels built for practice rather than demonstration. We're excited about the direction the tool is taking, and equally excited about the direction of the business behind it. There's a lot of noise in this market, and Jylo are one of the few building with real craft." Also commenting on the news, Steve Whitwham, director of business strategy implementation at Clarke Wilmott, said that working with Jylo has delivered "incredible" results around adoption while delivering on all "commercial, governance and technology facets." He said: "The Jylo team have been true partners supporting across all elements of how to successfully deliver this type of service. Importantly, the partnership has been two-way, and Jylo has sought Clarke Willmott's input to the latest iteration of their platform, Jylo 3.0. The new iteration of Jylo is a real step forward incorporating not just technology improvements but really reflecting the feedback from the legal 'shop-floor' that our shared experience over the past 15 months has identified. It is exciting to see the joint Jylo / Clarke Willmott experience of the past 15 months really coming to life in 3.0." You can watch the full product demo with Jylo's co-founder & CEO Shawn Curran below: