A series of announcements this week from DeepJudge, DISCO, Spellbook and workplace technology provider Korbyt is worth noting as things start to heat up in the countdown to ILTACON in Nashville.
Perhaps the most strategically significant announcement comes from Swiss legal AI company DeepJudge, which has introduced the Agent Handoff Protocol (AHP), an open protocol designed to allow users to move between AI platforms without losing the context of their work. While protocols such as MCP enable systems to exchange information, DeepJudge says lawyers frequently lose valuable context when switching between AI tools, forcing them to rebuild prompts, re-upload documents and recreate analysis.
The new protocol aims to solve that problem by enabling AI systems to transfer not only information but also objectives, conversation history and supporting materials. DeepJudge says Harvey is among the first vendors to implement the protocol, with a beta integration launching this month, while Thomson Reuters has also announced support. The move reflects an increasingly common view in the legal technology market that no single AI platform will dominate every aspect of legal work, requiring greater interoperability between specialist systems.
Elsewhere, litigation technology provider DISCO has made its new Advanced Research capability generally available. The agentic AI tool is designed to tackle complex fact investigations and evidence analysis through multi-step reasoning, automatically reviewing its own findings, identifying gaps and launching additional searches to refine results.
DISCO says the tool can help litigation teams rapidly develop timelines, investigation memos and deposition outlines from large evidence collections. Early users report significant productivity gains, with customer engagement more than doubling during the early access programme. The launch is another example of eDiscovery providers moving beyond traditional document search towards increasingly autonomous investigative workflows.
Also this week, Spellbook launched an AI document editor within its Associate platform. The new functionality brings the Word experience into Associate, allowing lawyers to review, amend and finalise documents without switching between applications. The vendor says users can instruct Spellbook to make hundreds of changes across multiple related documents from one place, before manually reviewing and refining the results.
Last but not least, Korbyt this week said it is bringing AI to its workplace and meeting room management platform. Ahead of ILTACON, the company unveiled new booking capabilities including ConciergeAI, a natural language assistant that enables lawyers and staff to reserve desks and meeting rooms through Microsoft Teams, Outlook or the Korbyt platform. Korbyt says the system automatically applies firm booking rules and availability constraints before presenting options, with the goal of reducing administrative friction and helping firms better utilise office space.