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When we first met the team at Hicksons Lawyers, it was clear to me that they're truly looking to innovate on providing the best legal services and on new pricing models with AI. Hicksons needed a solution that could handle thousands of complex matters while fitting into their lawyers' existing workflows. After evaluating legal tech globally, they chose August because it: 1. Processes entire matters in minutes, delivering comprehensive chronologies and insights in fully-formatted Word documents 2. Integrates directly into Word, so lawyers get answers without switching platforms or uploading files 3. Lets them build in their specialized expertise, ensuring accuracy for their specific practice areas The results: Associates spend more time on strategic work and client relationships instead of document review. Partners have more capacity to mentor their teams. And clients get clearer, more actionable advice. David Fischl, Partner at Hicksons Lawyers, put it well: "Implementing August into our firm was like equipping each of our lawyers with an Iron Man suit." Hicksons is using August to compete more effectively with larger law firms by offsetting their resourcing advantage. They're also exploring new service delivery models where clients can access August's capabilities within their own organizations. August is expanding its foot print in Australia, working with leading firms and partnering with innovative teams. Read the full case study, linked in the comments, to see how Hicksons is rethinking legal se

At August, we’ve been spending a lot of time talking to firms who are moving past pilot programs and truly rethinking their economic model with AI. They’re winning new clients and delivering more services. I saw this once again last week at Legal Innovators New York where I met with our customers and practicioners, like the partner-only firm that won a major deal with 50% lower fees, proving the future is here. In our blog post, we share how a few innovative practices are doing this by scaling expertise (enabling experienced partners to manage massive workloads and allowing for incredible fee flexibility), making AFAs viable (AI provides the cost certainty to confidently offer Alternative Fee Arrangements to the price-sensitive middle market), and elevating the work (shifting from just cutting costs to delivering a service clients genuinely value more, like helping a major investor codify their institutional knowledge). Read the full piece linked in the comments and let me know what you think!

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the kickoff of GAILP’s new Lunch Bytes series! We had a fantastic turnout and an energizing conversation with students, practitioners, and community members. A special thank-you to Faiz Thakur (LL.M. ’24) of August for a thoughtful and insightful fireside chat on how AI is reshaping legal practice—and how aspiring lawyers can step into the world of legal tech. If you’d like to stay updated on future events and discussions at the intersection of law and technology, you can RSVP to our GAILP newsletter below: https://lnkd.in/earw9Rrp

Lawyers spend 66% of their workday in email. But no legal AI platform has tackled the inbox. Today, we’re solving that with August in Outlook. Email is where so much of legal work actually happens—it's where context lives, where clients reach out, where matters really begin. By connecting Outlook and August, our agents can now see that context automatically and take real ownership of entire matters. I'm genuinely excited about this. This creates a single interface for all knowledge work. August becomes the legal operating system. Getting here required solving some hard problems: * Teaching the agent to actually use Microsoft Outlook, searching emails, drafting responses, reviewing attachments, running full workflows * Syncing entire inboxes with August on the web so lawyers can pull that context into drafting or review anywhere * Building an interface that makes managing all this context simple and powerful * Working directly with OpenAI and Anthropic to make the system 10x faster than when we started Watching our team ship this alongside the recent personas launch has been incredible. These tools are entering a fundamentally different era.

We’re excited to partner with Eldib Advocates and launch our expansion into the country and the African market. Eldib is one of the first firms in Egypt to adopt legal specific generative AI and also one of the oldest with a rich history of over 150 years. Through our first conversations with Nada H. Eldib and Richard Tibichrani it was clear that they and the firm are constantly looking at ways to stay of the curve and provide the best client services. They saw that integrating GenAI into their practice is the next step of this decades long progression and allows the firm and its lawyers to be at the cutting edge of their profession. It has been great working alongside their team and navigating the specific needs of the region and supporting new languages, including Arabic through August. Looking forward to our partnership and expanding further into Egypt and working with Arabic speaking clients! Faiz Thakur