{"id":162215,"date":"2026-09-03T11:04:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T19:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/03\/iltacon-news-round-up-part-2-litigation-lawtoolbox-opus-2-clarra-eve\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T11:04:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T19:04:47","slug":"iltacon-news-round-up-part-2-litigation-lawtoolbox-opus-2-clarra-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/03\/iltacon-news-round-up-part-2-litigation-lawtoolbox-opus-2-clarra-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"ILTACON News Round-Up Part 2, Litigation: LawToolBox, Opus 2, Clarra, Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week\u2019s ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, brought what may have been the busiest news cycle I can remember for this conference, with a torrent of product announcements dominated by two themes: agentic AI and the Model Context Protocol. I have already covered the conference and several of the week\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>Last week\u2019s ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, brought what may have been the busiest news cycle I can remember for this conference, with a torrent of product announcements dominated by two themes: agentic AI and the Model Context Protocol.<\/p>\n<p>I have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawnext.com\/2026\/08\/have-we-reached-peak-legal-tech-sure-felt-that-way-at-iltacon-this-week.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">already covered the conference<\/a> and several of the week\u2019s biggest stories \u2013 including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawnext.com\/2026\/08\/lexisnexis-unveils-legal-intelligence-engine-rebuilding-protege-around-dynamic-agentic-orchestration.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LexisNexis\u2019s Legal Intelligence Engine<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawnext.com\/2026\/08\/thomson-reuters-launches-thomson-its-own-proprietary-llm-trained-on-westlaw-and-practical-law-content.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thomson Reuters\u2019 launch of its Thomson LLM<\/a>, and Clio\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawnext.com\/2026\/08\/pablo-arredondo-casetext-cofounder-and-legal-ai-pioneer-joins-clio-to-lead-its-expansion-into-the-judiciary.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hiring of Pablo Arredondo to lead a new judiciary initiative<\/a>. Now, as I dig out from a hectic week, I am rounding up here other notable announcements from the conference.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll do this in four parts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawnext.com\/2026\/09\/iltacon-news-round-up-part-1-e-discovery-disco-everlaw-nuix-relativity-reveal.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Part 1: E-Discovery<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Part 2: Litigation.<\/li>\n<li>Part 3: Documents, Data and AI.<\/li>\n<li>Part 4: The Business of Law<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is part 2, litigation.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: I used Claude to assist in creating the summaries.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Opus 2 Introduces Ingenuity, Its Agentic AI Framework<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Opus 2 introduced Opus 2 Ingenuity, an agentic AI framework built into its litigation platform.<\/p>\n<p>The company stresses that Ingenuity is not a new product but rather an evolution of how its AI recognizes and understands the context of a matter based on how legal teams interact with documents, define relationships between information, and manage workflows.<\/p>\n<p>These insights \u2014 nearly 11 million of them created across the platform each month, the company says \u2014 are generated automatically as teams build case strategy in Opus 2, and give Ingenuity\u2019s AI layers and specialty agents a stronger foundation for surfacing and acting on intelligence across workflows from case assessment through hearing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAI is only as effective as the information it can understand,\u201d said Greg Blackman, CEO of Opus 2. \u201cIngenuity unlocks AI through a deeper understanding of the insights inside our platform \u2013 delivering productivity, cost-efficiency, quality, security, and other valuable benefits across any law firm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company says that the matter intelligence powering Ingenuity results in higher quality AI outputs that are more accurate, making AI-driven work more dependable, reducing risks associated with unsupported conclusions, enabling teams to spend more time on strategy and less time on validation, and more efficiently balancing AI compute, potentially lowering costs.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawnext.com\/2026\/08\/opus-2-ingenuity-delivers-the-next-ai-advantage-to-the-legal-industry-better-ai-outcomes-from-less-ai-effort.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Opus 2 Ingenuity\u2122 delivers the next AI advantage to the legal industry: better AI outcomes from less AI effort<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For a recent walk-through of Opus 2, see this video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ATn_-WulOnw?si=jF3nWSV2a4ej2gMd\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><strong>LawToolBox Launches MCP Connecting Legal AI to Matter Data in Microsoft 365<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>LawToolBox announced LawToolBox MCP for Microsoft 365 and Claude, which connects the legal AI tools customers already use \u2014 including M365 Copilot, CoCounsel, Harvey, Legora, Prot\u00e9g\u00e9, Claude, and ChatGPT \u2014 to the matter-specific context that LawToolBox organizes in Matter Containers within Microsoft 365.<\/p>\n<p>LawToolBox is a legal SaaS platform that lives inside each legal organization\u2019s M365 account and transforms Outlook, Word, SharePoint and M365 Teams into a legal solution.<\/p>\n<p>Its MCP connector includes 70 tools that leverage the M365 data in the LawToolBox matter containers, the applicable laws and regulations, and the legal team\u2019s strategic analysis, all amplified with LLMs and saved to containers.<\/p>\n<p>LawToolBox uses each organization\u2019s CRM, DMS or homegrown database as the system of record to create AI-ready client matter data containers in their M365 that adhere to data governance and ethical walls.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawnext.com\/2026\/08\/watch-lawtoolbox-mcp-for-microsoft-365-claude-connects-legal-ai-to-matter-data-containers-in-m365.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this article on LawNext<\/a> or watch this video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lZLNAykiS6Q?si=SVwz9JI_wkH3OtGM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Clarra Introduces Case Management MCP Server for Claude<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Litigation case management company Clarra introduced what it calls the most comprehensive legal case management MCP server for Claude, giving AI tools meaningful access to case information without creating another disconnected system.<\/p>\n<p>Through the integration, the company said, legal teams can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Generate litigation briefs, matter summaries, chronologies, and demand letters.<\/li>\n<li>Analyze deposition transcripts, medical records, and other case materials.<\/li>\n<li>Prepare case strategies, deposition outlines, and litigation analyses.<\/li>\n<li>Create staffing, budgeting and billing dashboards, and board reporting using live matter data.<\/li>\n<li>Update matters, create tasks, and configure workflows using agentic AI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cLegal teams shouldn\u2019t have to purchase a different AI application for every task,\u201d said Keao Caindec, CEO of Clarra. \u201cBy connecting Claude directly to Clarra, organizations can leverage one of the world\u2019s most capable AI platforms to generate insights, draft legal work product, and automate operational tasks without leaving the platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Eve Brings Analyst and Atlas to General Availability<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eve.legal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eve<\/a>, the AI platform for plaintiff firms valued at more than $1 billion after its Series B, announced the general availability of two capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Analyst lets firm leaders ask any performance question \u2014 such as why Q3 settlement pace is behind \u2014 in plain English and get an instant answer.<\/p>\n<p>Law firms also get a saved dashboard they can visit at any time that shows analytics such as settlement pacing, case loads, attorney performance, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Atlas makes a law firm\u2019s data all real-time by structuring every record, bill and communication the moment it hits the firm, so Analyst is never working from stale data, the company says.<\/p>\n<p>Atlas automatically extracts records, bills and communications into a live case file, so the numbers Analyst reports come from work Eve already did, not data someone had to enter twice.<\/p>\n<p>Atlas is available now for personal injury firms, with the same foundation extending to more practice areas as it matures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week\u2019s ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, brought what may have been the busiest news cycle I can remember for this conference, with a torrent of product announcements dominated by two themes: agentic AI and the Model Context Protocol. I have already covered the conference and several of the week\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":162216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawsite"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/LawSites-ILTACON-Roundup-Featured-B7yEsT.jpg?fit=1024%2C572&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}