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Harrison Drury Solicitors didn't want AI off the shelf.

The 125-year-old firm chose August after evaluating multiple platforms and is now working with us to shape the firm around the technology.

Our engineers sat with each of their teams, learning how every practice area works before building the architecture that fits the firm best. We assess, build, and maintain.

We believe the firms that treat technology as a strategic decision will be the ones that decide their own trajectory.

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Read the full story here → https://t.co/fwZV6iVtnB

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Harrison Drury Solicitors is building the law firm of the future.

The firm planned a two week pilot of August in its corporate and commercial teams. By the end of week 1, it had spread across seven of its nine offices across the North of England, with teams emailing to say they needed it now.

In this film, Malcolm Ireland (Legal Services Partner), Martin Holmes (Head of IT), and Simon England (Managing Partner) share why the rollout moved so quickly, and why the firm sees August as a true partnership rather than a software purchase. Watch the full story below.

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What separates legal AI that gets adopted from legal AI that actually gets used? The answer is whether the tool knows your firm.

Join us on July 16th at 14:00 BST (9:00 A.M. EST) for a webinar on why AI that understands how your firm operates is fundamentally different from tools that simply process legal text.

The session will cover:

- How August learns your precedent and templates instead of producing generic output
- Whole-workflow automation across drafting, review, and closing
- Why AI that matches your house style earns real adoption among lawyers
- What a realistic deployment timeline looks like (shorter than most expect)
- A live demonstration, with time reserved for your questions

If you're evaluating legal AI or trying to understand the current landscape, expect a candid view of what works and what doesn't.

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Read more here → https://t.co/n988qW6bPB

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Why isn't Claude alone enough for a law firm?

Vendor selection in legal AI is a professional responsibility decision, not just a technology purchase. ABA Model Rule 1.6 extends your duty to protect client information to every platform in your practice. That standard should shape how firms evaluate their options.

Claude for Legal is an orchestration layer. It connects other tools your firm licenses separately, with metered token billing that can push a $20 seat past $500 a month.

August is a platform. It goes beyond coordinating a stack: unlimited research, drafting, review, and deposition support under one flat monthly fee. Every output includes source citations with a verification UI, security is SOC 2 certified and independently audited rather than self-reported.

Firms without dedicated IT cannot afford to manage the layers beneath an orchestration tool. For them, predictability is not a convenience. It is the standard of care.

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Every legal team runs on workflows it has never written down. The diligence checklist, the markup review, the playbook a senior associate carries in her head. Teaching a machine to run them sounded like a product problem.

It wasn't. The latest post on the August engineering blog explains why Workflows ended up being built as a runtime instead of a feature: a representation of the work kept separate from its execution, so execution can keep improving without anyone touching the workflow itself. That's an unusual architecture for legal tech, but a familiar one to anyone who has spent time with compilers or schedulers.

The post traces how the team got there, including a first version that collapsed under real complexity and what the rebuild around program structure changed.

Worth your time if systems design is your thing.

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What happens when due diligence becomes an end-to-end process instead of a sequence of tasks?

Take a buy-side review for change of control provisions. Even with AI, lawyers still conduct the sequence themselves, carrying the work from extraction through analysis to a deal-level conclusion. Each stage is faster, but responsibility for connecting them never leaves the lawyer's desk.

August's Workflows compress hours of manual work into a single set of instructions. The relationship stops resembling a lawyer operating software and starts resembling a partner briefing an associate: an instruction is sent, finished work comes back, and judgment is applied where the deal actually needs it.

Beyond the hours recovered, a workflow preserves the expertise that built it, ready for any partner in the firm to draw on. Senior attention settles on evaluating conclusions.

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What does it take for legal AI to actually fit a specialized practice like construction litigation?

Construction litigation buries you in paper. One dispute can pull in thousands of subcontracts, change orders, RFIs, and drawings, and the fact that decides the case is usually somewhere inside them. August is built to read that volume, including scans and handwriting, with a custom OCR model trained to pull text from dense architectural drawings and plan sets that standard tools cannot handle.

A litigation workflow can review every agreement in the set, flag indemnification clauses that push one party's own negligence onto the other, catch notice deadlines too short to survive, and return a risk table with recommended redlines.

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Happy fourth of July!

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A lawyer using August Workflows doesn't have to get good at AI. They just have to know what they need done.

A chat box puts the burden of method on the lawyer every time: knowing what to ask, how to sequence it, and how to break down the whole matter in their head while they do it. A workflow encodes that method once, so the firm's best process runs the same way every time, whoever starts it. Expertise becomes shared infrastructure instead of something locked in one lawyer's head.

A lawyer selects work they already know needs doing, whether that is reviewing a production, summarizing depositions, or checking cited authority. August runs it against the firm's own playbooks and returns the result in the tools lawyers already use, with every step visible in a live graph so the firm can inspect and correct the process instead of trusting a black box.

The most useful workflow is the one that turns a firm's best way of working into something it can run on demand.

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August has 700+ legal workflow templates and presets across litigation, corporate/M&A, contract review, multi-document summaries, compendiums, and jurisdiction-specific work.

They help legal teams move faster by turning repeat tasks into structured workflows, built from the knowledge and strategy of hundreds of law firms we’ve worked with.

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Hours saved is how most law firms grade their AI investment. It's also why most of them can't find the return.

Yesterday, Hayden Enniss and Rutvik Rau sat down with Dan Safran, CEO of Unbiased Consulting, who has worked with over 800 law firms across 35 years of practice, in our webinar "How AI Is Replacing Business Models, Not Just Tasks."

In this clip, Rutvik explains why the firms getting real returns were never really buying a tool.

So where do the returns show up, and where should firms start? Read the full write-up here → https://t.co/YoAfy3cZ02

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We are heading to London for LegalTechTalk next week! 🇬🇧

Whether you are evaluating legal tech for the first time, exploring a partnership, or thinking through a firmwide rollout, catch us between sessions at Booth K57.

Grab 15 minutes with Julia Candiotti, Head of AI Adoption & Partnerships at August, here → https://t.co/AGUMZ1TeEq

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AI is already moving into your contracts, diligence, and procurement. The rules governing it and the ethical duties that come with it haven't caught up. That gap is where deals get exposed, and it's landing on transactional lawyers first.

Today at 1 pm EST, Lakshmi Sarma Ramani and Caroline McCaffery from OGC (Outside General Counsel LLP), break down what you need to stay ahead of it.

What we'll cover:
→ How to build an AI governance framework that actually holds up
→ What the EU AI Act compliance requires, including risk classification and documentation
→ The conflicts, confidentiality, and professional responsibility rules that come up in deal work

CLE credit included. It's not too late to register here → https://t.co/QSWe27VtMs

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Fable 5, Anthropic's newest model, is now available on August.

It works autonomously longer than any previous Claude model, carrying the work further before you pick it up, including multi-document review, clause extraction, and redlining across large document sets.

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For most firms, AI still means doing the same work faster. For the firms paying attention, it's started doing something bigger, changing how firms scale, staff, and make money.

Tomorrow at 12 pm ET, Unbiased Consulting's Dan Safran sits down with us to cover:

→ Why AI has gone from a productivity tool to reshaping the operating model itself
→ What changes when AI executes the work instead of just assisting it
→ Where that lands for partners, on margins, staffing, team structure, and new revenue

Join us tomorrow: https://t.co/KoVpaRf9Pq

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Why do established firms like Harrison Drury choose August over off-the-shelf legal AI tools?

Ever since we partnered with Harrison Drury Solicitors for a firmwide rollout, our forward-deployed engineers have been working with the firm, learning how its teams actually work, and building workflows to help each team within the firm.

These custom workflows have delivered better, faster, and higher-quality legal work across every department in the law firm, from corporate, commercial, property, and family to finance, HR, marketing, and business development.

Hear from Simon England (Managing Partner), Malcolm Ireland (Legal Services Partner), and Martin Holmes (Head of IT) as they explain what changed, and why generic AI tools were not going to cut it.

Read the full story here: https://t.co/W7MXj6V1AD

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One year ago, Dominic Lee became the first person to join August outside the founding team.

Since then, he's shaped the product, the processes behind it, and pretty much everyone who's joined after him.

In the final episode of Dominic's Q&A series, he gives a glimpse of August's culture and people. Mutual respect, hard work, and a team that always has each other's backs.

We are so lucky to have him. And if this sounds like you, the good news is we're hiring: https://t.co/9qFKNLnkpi