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ILTACON 2026 surfaced a market moving in two directions at once: bringing the model in-house while pouring investment into the context, governance, and economics that make it defensible. From the model wars to the knowledge layer to the numbers behind the business of law, a look at who's positioning to turn commoditized intelligence into outcomes clients will pay for.

Until a year ago, legal tech's goal was to make lawyers faster. This year, a new class of startups is aiming higher—rebuilding legal practice around agents instead of associates. Here’s a look at the founders redrawing the line between legal software and legal services, and why the incumbents may be structurally unable to follow.

Deposition intelligence platform Deposely has rebranded as Litem. Named for the Latin word for lawsuit, Litem’s new identity reflects an expansion from solely focusing on depositions to embedding itself into the full discovery record, from documents through testimony. The pivot takes the company’s product experience in the market and applies it beyond a single proceeding to impact the entire litigation lifecycle.

For the last three years, the defining question inside European law firms was whether to adopt artificial intelligence. Today, that question has largely been answered. New data from the European Law Firms and Legal AI 2026 survey (LTH–Lexpo 2026 Survey), conducted jointly by Legaltech Hub and Lexpo, points to a new, harder question law firms are grappling with: how to turn AI that is already deployed into AI that actually changes the economics of the business. 

New research and a legal context engineering benchmark reveal that providing AI models with context about the work they are asked to do not only increases model accuracy but can also decrease token cost through substantially better efficiency.