Harbor

Three years of Harbor. This week we're marking three years since we came together under one name. What started as just over 600 strategists, technologists, and specialists is now a team of around 1,000, working alongside law firms and corporate law departments across the globe. Thank you to our clients, our partners, and the Harbor people who built this. The next chapter is the one we're most excited about. #LegalTech #LegalOps #LegalIndustry

As the definitive annual benchmark for legal ops, the #CLOC State of the Industry Report, built on the Harbor Law Department Survey, relies on your data. Make an impact on the report by attending our upcoming live working session! Join us on August 19, 2026, at 12:00 PM ET as Harbor experts help you cross the finish line. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁: • Expert Guidance: Receive quick insights and real-time answers from Harbor • Dedicated Time: Carve out an uninterrupted hour for progress • Get It Done: Leave with your survey submitted or nearly complete 👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/eNTB5uqK 📝 Access the survey: https://lnkd.in/eD4DpeTt #LegalOps #LegalOperations #Networking

What does it take to make legal technology work at scale? At ILTACON 2026, Harbor’s 11 sessions will address the most critical questions across data, AI, change, and operations: 🔷 The data, taxonomies and cloud foundations behind AI  🔷 Knowledge management and practical AI implementation  🔷 Change leadership, adoption and ongoing IT operations  🔷 Law firm mergers and integration  🔷 Revenue-based marketing technology measurement  🔷 Enterprise technology strategy View the sessions and build your agenda: https://lnkd.in/gTyaS9cz See you in Nashville. #ILTACON2026 #WhereLegalWorks #LegalAI #LegalTech 

For a while, the question was what AI could do. Firms ran the demos, tested the tools, watched the capabilities improve. That question's been answered. The one that matters now is harder: how do you make AI useful every day? Most firms have moved past pilots. They have licenses, sometimes more than one tool live at once. But access isn't adoption. In our latest ILTACON piece, Harbor's Damian Jeal argues the real bottleneck isn't the model, it's the knowledge underneath it: fragmented, out of date, scattered across systems AI inherits rather than fixes. The piece also gets into where a lot of well-intentioned AI rollouts stall, the tension between making knowledge easier to find and keeping the governance firms have built for good reason. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/gsm2jPR3 Join the conversation at ILTACON: 🔷 Mon, Aug 24, 2:30pm — April Brousseau, "Does AI Truly Break Down Knowledge and Content Barriers?"  🔷 Tue, Aug 25, 10:30am — Damian Jeal, "KM Roundtable 2.0: KM + AI, From Inspiration to Implementation" Harbor is bringing 11 sessions to ILTACON 2026, more than we've ever brought to the show. Where legal works. #ILTACON2026 #WhereLegalWorks #KnowledgeManagement #LegalAI 

Harbor is bringing more to ILTACON this year than ever before. Eleven sessions across the full business of law, from data and cloud foundations to AI in production to the operations that keep it running. Harbor Deploy, our new AI deployment offering, built for the work that starts after a platform is chosen. That work is already live. Harbor Connect, our data and integration layer, is running inside client environments today, closing exactly the kind of gap Deploy exists to solve at scale. New research on where firms stand: the Enterprise AI Operating Model, our benchmark of how legal organizations measure, govern, and scale AI. One thread connects all of it. Legal technology works when the system around it works. See what we're bringing to Nashville: https://lnkd.in/gTyaS9cz Harbor is bringing 11 sessions to ILTACON 2026, more than we've ever brought to the show.  Where legal works. #ILTACON2026 #WhereLegalWorks #LegalAI 

Today, Harbor is launching Harbor Deploy, an AI deployment offering built for one industry: legal Harbor Deploy embeds specialist teams directly inside law firms and legal departments, extending Harbor's Advise, Implement, Manage model into AI. And we're not starting from zero: our enablement teams have already been running AI adoption and change management programs inside law firms, including Magic Circle firms. This year, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft each built one of these for the rest of the economy: billions in investment, thousands of engineers, all betting that deployment is where the real value sits. Harbor built one for legal. Make AI work where legal works. https://lnkd.in/gSnTHdEy

Revenue already earned is one of the clearest profitability opportunities law firms have and most of it isn't a technology problem. Here's what separates the firms getting it back. #LawFirmFinance #RevenueManagement #LegalOperations 

Historical data is useful in developing AI tools and workflows, and some clients are asking firms to compile and release their data in order to build new ones. "This is a continuation of a larger trend to make in-house legal departments more capable, and technology has highlighted this particular opportunity,” said Harbor's global head of AI strategy, Rudy DeFelice, adding that, “if you’re a law firm, you can’t rely on retaining data the client wants as your business model. That is not a sustainable strategy.” Big Law AI leaders said they looked to partner with clients on novel uses of their data to deepen relationships. The trend could present risks and opportunities for firms, depending on how they handle it. From reporter Dan Roe: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eqwPqm-t

Looking forward to speaking at ILTACON in Nashville: "The SaaS Shift: Reinventing Your Data Foundation for Cloud + AI," Tuesday, Aug 25th at 2:00pm, alongside Will Jaynes, Brian Creona, and Lisa Erickson. We'll get into something most firms learn the hard way: you can't AI your way tool by tool without a foundation and out of bad data. The AI tools work, but they're only as good as the foundation underneath them, and for most firms that foundation is fragmented across a dozen SaaS platforms that were never built to talk to each other. The session is about what it actually takes to fix that: how to create a foundation that treats your data layer as infrastructure rather than an afterthought, so AI has something coherent to work with and can compound the value. I wrote more on this here, including the two problems that compound alongside fragmented architecture: https://lnkd.in/gbPsmi96 Harbor is bringing 11 sessions to ILTACON 2026, more than we've ever brought to the show. Where legal works. I hope to see you at ILTACON this year.

Technology creates lasting value when it is connected to an organization’s operating model, workflows, data and people. We’re pleased to partner with Clio to support large law firms and corporate legal departments deploying Clio Operate and Vincent by Clio. Together, we will bring Clio’s legal AI platform and Harbor’s advisory, implementation, change management and adoption expertise to complex transformation initiatives.   Read more in Clio’s announcement below.