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Welcome to the InsideVu. This edition has it all: product updates that tackle your biggest pain points, early access to our latest AI features, and upcoming webinars and events worth saving a spot for.
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Our most powerful AI features yet – beta program is now open
We're rolling out some of our most exciting AI capabilities yet, and we want your help shaping them.
Three new AI features are now available in the beta program:
LawVu Assistant for legal: Chat with LawVu to get instant answers and take action securely governed inside your LegalOS. Create requests, matters, tasks, notes, and contracts through a conversational experience built right into your workflow.
Legal Assistant for the business: Let stakeholders submit requests and get self-service guidance drawn from your approved policies, straight from the Business Portal.
Custom skills: Provide a framework for the assistant to use to give you the right response for your organization in any scenario.
Note: Access to LawVu Intelligence is required to enable these features. Not sure if you have it? Get in touch with your Org Admin.
Want to be part of the beta program and help us shape where these features go? Learn more about these new features and register your interest here.
Securely connect your AI tools to your LegalOS
Already using an AI tool like Claude, ChatGPT, or Microsoft Copilot? Now you can connect any tool that supports the MCP (Model Context Protocol) open standard directly to LawVu, so your AI works with your real legal data instead of guessing. No custom code, no compromising on security.
See it in action below:
Why it’s awesome:
Connect AI without custom code: Enable tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and MS Copilot to securely work with LawVu.
Give your AI the right legal context: Let AI analyze contracts, answer policy questions, and work across your matters and legal data – grounded in what's actually in LawVu, not generic guesses.
Keep control of your data: Maintain secure, auditable AI interactions with role-based permissions and governed access to legal information.
A few examples of what LawVu MCP server enables:
Search and query matters and contracts in natural language, with structured results and links back to LawVu
Summarize and report across matters or contracts, including key details, gaps, risks, and status updates
Retrieve policy and knowledge answers grounded in internal legal content
Create matters or trigger contract workflows directly from an AI tool
Update matter status, create tasks, and set deadlines from connected AI workflows
Want to switch it on? Click here to learn how to activate and install the MCP server for your team.
More flexible contract approval workflows
You can now select the contract owner as an approver when configuring contract approval workflows.
When this option is chosen, the approval step automatically assigns to whoever owns that contract. No need for manual workarounds of adding ad hoc approvers when contracts are in flight.
It's a small but meaningful change that makes your workflows smarter and easier to maintain as your team and contracts evolve.
Accounting codes allocation for invoices and spend
Managing legal spend just got a lot more powerful. You can now create up to eight accounting codes, allocate them directly on matters, default them onto invoices, and push them straight to Accounts Payable, all within LawVu.
That means less manual reconciliation, cleaner data for your finance team, and richer reporting on how legal spend is distributed across departments and other metrics.
What's new at a glance:
Create and manage up to 8 accounting codes
Allocate codes on matters and default them to invoices
Update invoice allocations as needed
Auto-provide to Accounts Payable
Report on legal spend across departments and other dimensions
Already using the cost center field or a workaround? No changes are required on your end; everything keeps working as is. When you're ready to migrate, configuration is straightforward and includes import capability.
More control over inactivity timeout settings
Compliance Security organizations can now access the full range of inactivity timeout options, from 5 minutes up to 12 hours, removing the previous 30-minute cap.
This gives your team the flexibility to configure timeouts that match your operational needs without compromising security.
What's changed:
Compliance Security orgs now have access to the same timeout range as standard organizations (5 minutes to 12 hours)
Default timeout for Compliance Security orgs is now set to 10 minutes
Improved in-app guidance includes HIPAA recommendation notes to help you stay on the right side of compliance requirements
Worth a quick check: These changes won't apply automatically, so Org Admins should take a moment to review and update their timeout configuration.
Our recommendation: For HIPAA compliance, we continue to recommend a timeout of 15 minutes or less.
Business users can now edit contracts in Microsoft Word
Business Users can now edit contracts directly in Microsoft Word, the same way Legal Users already do. No downloading and re-uploading required.
When previewing a contract, Business users will now see the Microsoft Word editing option alongside the existing Replace button, making it faster and simpler to make changes without breaking their workflow.
Please note that for business users to be able to edit:
The contract must be a Microsoft Word document
Your organization must have Office (Word or Office Online) enabled in LawVu Admin
The contract must not be executed
Webinar: Drafting and reviewing contracts with AI
AI promises to transform contract work, but between the hype and the horror stories, practical guidance is hard to find. This session cuts through the noise with live demos in LawVu Draft, covering where AI genuinely helps in drafting and review, where it falls short, and how to tell the difference. You'll leave with a framework for evaluating AI-generated outputs and prompting techniques you can apply straight away.
Can’t make it live? No problem. Register anyway, and we’ll send you the recording.
Webinar: Learn about LawVu spend enhancements
Managing outside counsel spend requires more than invoice processing alone. Join us to explore how LawVu spend management helps legal teams bring review, approvals, and reporting into better alignment to improve visibility, reduce friction, and strengthen control over spend.
With an emphasis on recently released LawVu spend enhancements, the session will demonstrate where Spend can add even more value for both existing customers and teams considering it.
You’ll learn:
Practical ways to strengthen invoice review, approvals, and reporting
Where accounting code allocation, bulk invoice approval, and pre-tax approval conditions can reduce friction
How richer invoice grids, LEDES invoice descriptions, and voided invoice visibility support clearer review
Can’t make it live? No problem. Register anyway, and we’ll send you the recording.
Legal Leaders Connect, our one-day event for in-house legal professionals, is heading back to Sydney!
Join us on Wednesday, 16 September 2026, for a practical, future-focused day on what it takes for in-house teams to succeed in 2026 and beyond. You'll walk away with meaningful connections and practical insights on scaling modern legal functions, future-proofing your in-house legal career, how AI is being applied in real-world legal teams, and more.
Use the code CUSTOMERLOVE at checkout to get your complimentary ticket.
Share your feedback, get an optional $30 Amazon gift card
If LawVu has made a difference to your day-to-day, we’d love you to share your experience in a short G2 review. It takes 5-10 minutes.
You can:
Review anonymously (no company or name required)
Skip the gift if it’s not allowed under your policies – or email us the link to your review to receive a $30 Amazon gift card.
Choose LinkedIn or work email to log in securely
Here’s how to review in 5 easy steps:
Visit LawVu on G2 and click “Submit a review”
Sign in via LinkedIn or your business email
Verify your account by email
Leave your review (~5 minutes)
Send us the link and your business email address if you'd like the gift
Want to share your love for LawVu?
Do you know another in-house legal team who would also benefit from using LawVu?
Join our LawVu Referral Program and you’ll receive a $5,000 credit to use towards next year’s LawVu subscription for every company you successfully refer. Even better, they’ll also receive $5,000 to use towards their LawVu subscription too.
Thank you for reading and we hope you enjoyed this edition of The InsideVu.