CEO @MinuteBox | AI for corporate and transactional legal teams #legaltech
Toronto, Canada
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Daniel Levine retweeted
New in MinuteBox this week: Automated Compliance for UK companies. MinuteBox works out Companies House and HMRC deadlines for private and public limited companies across the UK.
minutebox.com/blog/automated…
All of this talk about buying valuable Weil data (putting side the larger and impossible client-data issue) rests on the false assumption that law firms keep all their important data, like precedents, SOPs, research etc, in some super secret centralized repository and if you could just get your hands on that, you’d have that law firm’s best and most important secrets for how they deliver amazing legal service and then you too could deliver those amazing legal services. You could even train your model on it and then, boom, you can just become Weil. You can buy their name and slap it on as well.
Those who have spent time with enterprise law firms know this is not true.
Law firms are highly competitive. Most lawyers and partners are not incentivized to collaborate and share knowledge amongst their colleagues. At best, knowledge is shared with a very small group of practice team members and juniors.
Most lawyers, especially the best, operate in highly protected fiefdoms where they husband, rather than share, their best know-how and resources.
I’m sure there is value in Weil IP, but not for the reasons everyone seems to be talking about.
Daniel Levine retweeted
New in MinuteBox Registry Services: Quebec Articles of Incorporation. Complete them in MinuteBox and results come right back to your account. Available in French and English.
minutebox.com/blog/quebec-ar…
Several other major Canadian law firms were also breached and disclosures have been made. I’m surprised this article only mentions McCarthy.
McCarthy Tétrault, one of Canada’s top corporate law firms, is dealing with a major data breach that has compromised thousands of files, including client information theglobeandmail.com/business…
The hard thing about being McCarthy is that they actually have the internal talent and resources to *know* they have been breached.
How many small to mid-sized law firms were breached last week but will never disclose because they will never even know it happened to them?
In lawyer volume, likely 10-100x.
Part of the problem with AI is that it is very good at cosplaying. If you don’t know what you don’t know, it’s incredibly easy to look at its output and believe it’s correct, logically sound and well-reasoned. Because it sounds like it is, even when it isn’t.
This is just as true in legal as it is in medicine and other areas.
This is when @gruber turned heel. Hasn’t been the same since.
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When access to legal services gets cheaper, demand for legal services increases dramatically.
This is an incredible time to be a lawyer.
People thinking that this is what being a lawyer is, is hilarious.
i remember talking to an idiot lawyer in a pub 12 months ago
and him telling me (very eloquently) all the reasons why he and his profession was safe
and how this whole AI thing would blow over and how wrong i was
zero point arguing with him (shit. he’s a lawyer). i knew i just had to wait a few months and he’d realise ..
I think the ideal workflow for lawyers here is something like,
Claude for Legal, which connects to Legora or Harvey, which uses Claude models, which can then connect to Legora or Harvey MCP, which uses Claude models, which connect to Legora or Harvey API which...
Legora is part of the Claude for Legal launch. With Legora connected to @claudeai, lawyers can put Legora’s agent to work on jurisdiction-specific legal research and their own matter files, all from inside Claude, under their existing permissions and audit trail. Every answer links back to its sources in Legora for review.
“As legal teams adopt AI across more parts of their business, they need trusted legal intelligence available in those environments,” said Bryan Tsao, Chief Product Officer at Legora. “By connecting Legora to Claude, we’re making it easier for mutual customers to get answers to legal questions within their broader enterprise AI workflows, with links back to Legora for source review, citations and deeper legal work.”
We build AI for paralegals and law clerks. We charge far less than what we hear the lawyer-targeted products charge.
“Once they figure out the really hard thing no one will use the other guys who already figured out the really hard thing”
The more I use Codex or Claude Code for legal work, the less I see a long-term use case for Harvey and Legora, platform-wise.
I think once the frontier models figure out how to make their UI user-friendly for everybody to use agentic workflows, they take a lot of Harvey and Legora's value away.
As a result, I think legal tech companies have to get really good at working with the frontier model agents through MCP/API and then deliver added value that frontier models can't provide. For example, a legal database or improved legal research/drafting.
This is going to look real silly when the GPU guys start buying lawyers
We’re not aware of any law firm going to this extreme.
For example Latham is buying GPUs but is also firm-wide on Harvey and we announced a deeper partnership today.
We think that’s the right strategy and what matters more than build vs buy is how heavily a firm is investing in AI.
The best way to invest is a portfolio approach of working closely with vertical vendors and the labs and cloud providers while also self-building with open source and the frontier ecosystem.
Everything is moving too fast and law firms are too complex for a single binary approach like this post suggests.
Law firms will not rely on a single vendor nor will they build the entire stack themselves.
My view is that longer term the labs and clouds will build general intelligence infrastructure and vertical players will help customize it for each industry.
Then individual firms will leverage their unique data, human expertise and workflows to build differentiated AI to better compete against their peers and serve their clients.
Our goal is to build the trusted vertical layer and open it up through APIs so firms can build everything from custom models and context layers to agents and products with us.
And most importantly do it in a way they can trust that their data and their clients’ data is safe and only used for their benefit.
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#BREAKING: Olivia Chow has been re-elected as mayor of Toronto, the CP24-CTV Election Desk is projecting.
cp24.com/local/toronto/2026/…
And here’s our other 50 announcements. 🇺🇸
Today at @goclio ClioCon we expanded one of our most-loved features to the US.
More below 👇
New in MinuteBox this week: Automated Compliance expands to the United States. MinuteBox 2026.28 automatically tracks deadlines for corporations and LLCs in every US state and territory, and trusts, nonprofits and partnerships for the first time for US entities.
minutebox.com/blog/automated…
Daniel Levine retweeted
New in MinuteBox this week: Automated Compliance expands to the United States. MinuteBox 2026.28 automatically tracks deadlines for corporations and LLCs in every US state and territory, and trusts, nonprofits and partnerships for the first time for US entities.
minutebox.com/blog/automated…
Daniel Levine retweeted
Today at ClioCon we are announcing our official integration with Clio Manage. Send registry searches, corporate documents, share registers and registry invoices from MinuteBox to the right Clio matter.
minutebox.com/blog/minutebox…
#ClioCon2026