Wordsmith, whose AI tools help in-house lawyers draft contracts, handle legal questions, and more, raised a $70M Series B, bringing its total funding to $100M (Melia Russell/Business Insider)

<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wordsmith-ai-for-corporate-lawyers-70-million-series-b-2026-6"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260603/i42.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260603/p42#a260603p42" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Melia Russell / <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/">Business Insider</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wordsmith-ai-for-corporate-lawyers-70-million-series-b-2026-6">Wordsmith, whose AI tools help in-house lawyers draft contracts, handle legal questions, and more, raised a $70M Series B, bringing its total funding to $100M</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; The biggest promise of artificial intelligence in law is not that lawyers will work faster.&nbsp; It's that companies will need fewer of them on the outside.</p>