Best Legal AI tools, matched to your use case and budget
13 Legal tools in our graveyard are still alive and taking signups. Below they're sorted two ways — by the job you're hiring them for, and by what you can afford per month. Anything we've confirmed dead, abandoned or absorbed is listed at the bottom so you don't waste an afternoon on it.
Pick by what you're trying to do
Use cases are matched against what each tool actually claims to do, not its marketing tier.
Automating repetitive work
Workflows, triggers, batch jobs and anything you'd rather never do by hand again.
Clio Duo
🟢ActiveClio Duo is an AI assistant built into Clio Manage for legal professionals. It helps summarize matters and documents, draft communications, identify tasks, and surface account information within Clio’s legal practice platform.
Paxton AI
🟢ActivePaxton AI is a generative AI platform for legal research, drafting, document analysis, and matter-related workflows. It is designed for lawyers and legal teams and provides source-linked responses to legal questions.
Darrow
🟢ActiveDarrow is a legal technology platform that uses AI to help plaintiff-side law firms identify potential legal violations, evaluate claims, and connect relevant cases with attorneys while supporting case development workflows.
vLex Vincent AI
🟢ActiveA legal AI research and workflow platform from vLex. It uses vLex’s legal and regulatory corpus to support research, document analysis, drafting, summarization, comparison, and citation-linked answers.
Creating content and assets
Drafting, generating, designing and producing something a human ships.
CoCounsel
🟢ActiveCoCounsel is Thomson Reuters' generative AI assistant for legal and professional work. Integrated with Westlaw, Practical Law and Microsoft 365, it supports research, document review, drafting, summarization and analysis.
Lexis+ AI
🟢ActiveLexis+ AI is a generative AI legal research and drafting service from LexisNexis. It combines conversational search, document summarization, drafting, and document analysis with linked legal authorities and LexisNexis content.
Westlaw Precision with CoCounsel
🟢ActiveAn AI-assisted legal research product from Thomson Reuters that combines Westlaw Precision’s legal content and search tools with CoCounsel capabilities for research, document analysis, drafting, and summarization.
Clio Duo
🟢ActiveClio Duo is an AI assistant built into Clio Manage for legal professionals. It helps summarize matters and documents, draft communications, identify tasks, and surface account information within Clio’s legal practice platform.
Understanding data and customers
Search, research, analytics, summarisation and sentiment — turning noise into a decision.
CoCounsel
🟢ActiveCoCounsel is Thomson Reuters' generative AI assistant for legal and professional work. Integrated with Westlaw, Practical Law and Microsoft 365, it supports research, document review, drafting, summarization and analysis.
Lexis+ AI
🟢ActiveLexis+ AI is a generative AI legal research and drafting service from LexisNexis. It combines conversational search, document summarization, drafting, and document analysis with linked legal authorities and LexisNexis content.
Westlaw Precision with CoCounsel
🟢ActiveAn AI-assisted legal research product from Thomson Reuters that combines Westlaw Precision’s legal content and search tools with CoCounsel capabilities for research, document analysis, drafting, and summarization.
Clio Duo
🟢ActiveClio Duo is an AI assistant built into Clio Manage for legal professionals. It helps summarize matters and documents, draft communications, identify tasks, and surface account information within Clio’s legal practice platform.
Helping a team work together
Shared workspaces, support inboxes, meetings, handoffs and internal knowledge.
CoCounsel
🟢ActiveCoCounsel is Thomson Reuters' generative AI assistant for legal and professional work. Integrated with Westlaw, Practical Law and Microsoft 365, it supports research, document review, drafting, summarization and analysis.
Luminance
🟢ActiveLuminance is a legal technology platform that applies proprietary machine learning to contract review, negotiation, analysis and repository management for law firms and in-house legal teams.
Clearbrief
🟢ActiveClearbrief is an AI-assisted legal writing and litigation platform that connects factual statements in Microsoft Word documents to supporting evidence and helps users assemble cited filings and exhibits.
Paxton AI
🟢ActivePaxton AI is a generative AI platform for legal research, drafting, document analysis, and matter-related workflows. It is designed for lawyers and legal teams and provides source-linked responses to legal questions.
Building software
Code, APIs, infrastructure and everything with a terminal somewhere behind it.
Luminance
🟢ActiveLuminance is a legal technology platform that applies proprietary machine learning to contract review, negotiation, analysis and repository management for law firms and in-house legal teams.
Ironclad AI
🟢ActiveIronclad AI is a set of artificial intelligence features within Ironclad’s contract lifecycle management platform. It supports contract drafting, review, data extraction, summaries, redlining, and repository search.
Pick by budget
Based on the lowest recorded entry price. Vendors change pricing constantly — treat these as a shortlist, then confirm on the vendor page.
13 live Legal tools have no pricing on record yet: CoCounsel, Lexis+ AI, Luminance, Westlaw Precision with CoCounsel, Clio Duo, Clearbrief, Paxton AI, Spellbook, Darrow, Ironclad AI, vLex Vincent AI, DoNotPay.
Don't bother: Legal tools that are gone or going
Still ranking in Google, still linked in listicles, no longer worth your card details.
- ROSS Intelligence🔴Shutdown / Dead
ROSS announced in December 2020 that it would cease operations on January 31, 2021, saying the cost of defending Thomson Reuters’ copyright lawsuit had depleted its resources.
- Evisort🟡Acquired / Merged
Workday announced the completion of its Evisort acquisition in October 2024. Evisort’s website remains available and identifies the product as a Workday company, so acquired—not shutdown—is the best-supported status.
- BlackBoiler🟡Acquired / Merged
Legal technology company Onit announced its acquisition of BlackBoiler on August 24, 2021. BlackBoiler’s technology was subsequently incorporated into Onit’s contract-lifecycle products, while the legacy homepage remains accessible.
- LawGeex🟡Acquired / Merged
Robin AI announced its acquisition of LawGeex on September 11, 2024. LawGeex’s former homepage now redirects to Robin AI, indicating that it no longer operates as an independent product brand.
- Gavelytics🟡Acquired / Merged
Gavelytics announced its acquisition by legal technology company Pre/Dicta in June 2022. The legacy Gavelytics homepage no longer presents a standalone operating product, so the product is classified as acquired rather than active.
- eBrevia🟡Acquired / Merged
Donnelley Financial Solutions acquired eBrevia in December 2018. DFIN subsequently integrated its AI-assisted contract analytics into the Venue virtual data room; the original eBrevia website’s present availability is unclear.