Microsoft 365 E3 vs E5 vs E7: Which License Does Your Firm Need for Copilot?
E5 isn’t automatically the right license for Copilot, and E7 isn’t automatically the bargain. Here’s what each plan includes, what changes once Copilot is on, and which fits law, energy, PE and medical device companies.
Claude vs Copilot for Law Firms: Which AI Assistant Fits Your Firm in 2026?
Copilot fits best when the work already lives in Microsoft 365 and your permissions are in decent shape. Claude fits best when you want to hand an assistant a specific pile of documents and get careful drafting or analysis back. Plenty of firms end up with both.
Microsoft 365 Licensing in 2026: E3, E5, E7, Copilot, and Add-Ons Explained
What Business Premium, E3, and E5 include, which E5 features law firms use, and where Copilot needs more than the base plan. Buy controls, not shelfware.
What Each AI Lab Actually Lets You Do About the Web-Fetch Gap
Compare practical controls for AI web-fetch risks: custom checked-fetch tools, Microsoft agent egress policies, and third-party security gateways, with a clear distinction between vendor-hosted browsing and developer-managed tools.
AI Web Search and Web Fetch Don’t Run Through Your Web Filter — Here’s What That Means
AI assistants can retrieve web content outside your firm’s network filtering path. See how vendor-hosted tools work, what safeguards their documentation describes, and why ordinary secure web gateways may not see those requests.
Microsoft 365 Connector for Claude: DLP Risks for Law Firms
Anthropic has spent this year building out Claude’s legal footprint fast. Over twenty connectors, twelve practice area plugins, reported first back in May and still reshaping how Big Law thinks about AI adoption months later. Document management systems, practice management platforms, research tools. Claude can now reach into a lot more of a firm’s world […]
AI Risk Mitigation for Law Firms: The Sanctions Are Rising, and They All Say the Same Thing
A federal court excluded an expert witness late last month. Not a first-year associate. Not a junior paralegal pulling cases at midnight before a filing deadline. An expert, whose entire value to the case rested on the credibility of their analysis, disqualified because that analysis leaned on AI hallucinated citations. I think that case matters […]
Claude Team vs Enterprise for Law Firms: Price, Retention, and Admin Controls
Short answer first, since it’s the one people came here for. The Claude Team plan is enough for most mid-size firms right up until privilege or your admin requirements force the question, and then you need the Claude Enterprise plan. That’s the whole post in two sentences. Everything below is the reasoning, the rough numbers […]
Copilot Governance for Law Firms: Who Audits Autopilot?
I had a call last week with a managing partner who was genuinely excited about Copilot’s Autopilot rollout. New workspace, multiple models to choose from, agents that can run tasks on their own. He described it almost like hiring help. And in a way, that is exactly what it is. Which is why I stopped […]
AI Agent Security Risks: 5 Alarming Incidents Law Firms Can’t Afford to Ignore
We’ve written a lot about AI risk this year — governance controls, data loss prevention, and the whole vetting-your-vendor conversation. But something shifted this week, watching a handful of stories break within a few days of each other. They weren’t about AI giving a bad answer or hallucinating a case citation, which is the risk […]