If you've run a Claude pilot, or watched one on LinkedIn, you've probably already felt the ceiling. Not because Claude isn't good. It is. But because "good AI" and "the right architecture for your team" are two different questions. Our Head of Legal Innovation, Donna Scaffidi, drew on her experience as a corporate and M&A attorney and in-house legal leader to put together an honest, vendor-agnostic guide for in-house counsel evaluating Claude Legal, Claude in Word, and purpose-built platforms like Ruli. It covers what each tool actually does, where each one hits its limits, and a six-criterion framework you can use to score any legal AI against your team's real workflow. Download for free today 👇 https://lnkd.in/gMv7-smz #InHouseCounsel #LegalAI #LegalTech #LegalOperations #LegalInnovation
Ruli
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The all-in-one legal intelligence platform for in-house teams.
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Reimagining legal work with AI. We empower lawyers to pair their knowledge with AI, automate routine tasks, and experience the future of legal work.
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Let's 🎥 time travel to the '08 financial crisis. I was a BigLaw securities associate focused on capital markets. (Wrong way to start a legal career, but that's another story.) I worked on a lot of warrants, swaps, ISDAs, derivatives. And I noticed a pattern: we were taking a client's Term Sheet and dropping it into the same templates, with some if/else conditions wrapped around it. I suggested to my Partner that we could automate most of it with Excel Macros and just verify the output. Faster turnarounds. Focus on billing client strategic work and spend more time on judgment. The Partner said: "Interesting." A senior associate pulled me aside: "Are you crazy? Our job is to bill high enough.. without setting off alarm bells for the client. That's the sweet spot." After the crisis dust settled, our largest IB client took all of that work in-house. ⏩ Fast forward to today. Ruli customers are sending our research memos to outside counsel — directing them to focus on specific advice rather than run the meter from scratch. Others are reporting hundreds of thousands saved in OC costs. The in-house / outside counsel relationship is getting a long overdue redesign.
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Most legal AI demos fail in the same place: ➡️They can retrieve something that looks right, but they cannot tell you whether it is still true, still valid, or still aligned with how your legal team actually operates. That is exactly the gap Donna Scaffidi, today´s #LegalTechVoices, keeps pushing the industry to take seriously. 📌 She leads the design and scaling of AI-native legal intelligence systems at Ruli, drawing on prior experience in both BigLaw and in-house roles at public companies. That combination gives her a practical lens on what legal teams actually need from AI beyond the demo environment. 📌 What makes her especially interesting is the way she frames the problem. In her recent writing, she has argued that many legal AI “retrieval successes” are really memory failures: the system may find a clause, precedent, or answer, but still miss whether it reflects the company’s current position, validated guidance, or latest decision logic. 📌 Her emphasis is clear: AI may draft and assist, but accountability, provenance, and legal judgment still belong to the attorney. Donna represents a particularly important kind of legaltech leadership for this moment: the people designing legal AI not just to answer questions, but to make those answers governable, traceable, and trustworthy. #legaltech #innovation #AI #legalops #GlobalLegalTechHub
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Running a lean legal team is not a headcount problem. It is a visibility problem. Yesterday I led a session with Lori Mininger and Sarah Irwin for ITGC on what it actually takes to operate a small in-house legal function that punches above its weight. The room was mostly GCs and Heads of Legal. Teams of 20 or fewer. Many teams of one. Sound familiar? The question everyone came in with was: "How do we do more with less?" The sharper question that surfaced was: "How do we prove what we already do?" We polled the room. 57% said the biggest barrier to proving legal's value is that they are too reactive to get ahead enough to show strategic impact. Only 5% said they are already seen as a value driver. That is not a resource problem. That is a visibility problem. Because capacity is real, and no one is pretending otherwise. But even if you had double the headcount tomorrow, the visibility problem would still be there. No one outside legal can see your work. You handle 200 matters a quarter and leadership still asks why you need budget. You prevent a deal from blowing up and nobody knows it happened. You are operating as a strategic function but getting funded like overhead. Four things came out of that conversation that I think matter beyond the room: 1. You cannot optimize what you cannot see. If you cannot tell your CEO how many matters your team handled last quarter, start there. Quantification is the pre-requisite for every other conversation about budget, headcount, and strategic value. 2. Consolidate before you add. Lori described how her team at Matic evaluated 11 tools and landed on 2. Most lean legal teams do not need more technology. You need fewer, better-connected tools that actually earn their cost. 3. Systems beat heroics. The teams that scale without burning out are the ones that build repeatable workflows. This looks like institutional knowledge living in systems, not in someone's head. 4. Value is a language problem, not a legal problem. The shift from cost center to strategic partner happens when legal speaks in business outcomes: turnaround times, outside counsel spend avoided, risk mitigated, revenue enabled. The recording is available for anyone who wants the full session. I also built a diagnostic framework and takeaway guide from the session: five questions to pressure-test whether your team is running lean or just stretched thin (plus a Keep/Stop/Start worksheet). Drop a comment or send me a message and I will share both. Thank you to Sarah Irwin at ITGC for the partnership with Ruli, and to Lori Mininger at Matic for bringing the kind of practitioner honesty that makes a session like this worth building. If you lead a lean legal team, I would love to hear: what is the biggest barrier to proving your team's value right now?
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Thrilled to welcome TaskUs to the Ruli family. 🎉 TaskUs is a ~60,000-person global digital services company with teams spread across dozens of jurisdictions. For in-house counsel teams at that scale, the research load is relentless. Outside counsel isn't always the answer. Claudia Walsh and her team are using Ruli to get immediate, reliable answers across their global footprint. Ruli's research goes where the business does. We're excited to build something great with your team. #InHouseCounsel #LegalTech #GlobalLegal #TaskUs #RuliAI
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We are headed to Consero’s General Counsel Forum! ✈️ We are back again to Consero next week to join industry leaders in LA to share our expertise and the latest with Ruli. Connect with the team to explore how continuous legal intelligence can streamline your most complex workflows and empower your GCs. 📅 June 3-5, 2026 📍 Four Seasons Hotel, Westlake Village, CA #Ruli #RuliAI #LegalAI #LegalOps #LSuite #LegalTech #GC #AI #GeneralCounsel
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🚨 LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER! 🚨 For our webinar with Ruli, happening TOMORROW! If you work in-house and need an operating playbook for doing more with less (without burning out), this is for you! On May 26th, we are hosting a tactical session on how to run a lean (but mighty!) legal function. The session will be led by Donna Scaffidi (Head of Legal Innovation, Ruli AI) and feature special guest, Lori Mininger (VP of Legal, Matic). You will learn how to: ✅ Diagnose where your team's real capacity leaks are ✅ Build a four-pillar operating model that scales senior judgment without scaling headcount ✅ Identify where AI delivers compounding capacity for lean teams (and the 3 places it still doesn't 👀) ✅ Avoid the most common mistake teams make when going lean: cutting the wrong things 🪓 Huge thanks to Ruli for sponsoring and leading this important session! See you there 👋🏻 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 🗓️ Date: Tuesday 26 May 🕰️ Time: 5pm BST | 9am PST | 12pm EST 💻 Location: Zoom Webinar 🔗 Register here: https://luma.com/9rkwuihs
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Thrilled to reshare this milestone from our portfolio company Ruli! 👇 Welcoming a Nasdaq-listed, 60,000-person global enterprise as a customer is no small thing — and it speaks to the real problem Ruli is solving for in-house legal teams operating at scale. The detail that stands out: even outside the US and EU, Ruli anchors its research in local law firms and government sources. That's not easy to build, and it's exactly what global companies need. Excited to watch this one grow. Congrats to Bryan Lee, Xi Sun and the whole Ruli team!
Excited to welcome TaskUs to the Ruli family. 🎉 TaskUs (Nasdaq: TASK) is a ~60,000-person global digital services company — the kind of operation where "legal questions come from everywhere" isn't a figure of speech. It's the job. With teams operating across dozens of jurisdictions worldwide, their legal team faces a challenge familiar to any in-house counsel at a scaled company: the research load is relentless, and farming everything out to outside counsel isn't a strategy. Claudia Walsh and her team are using Ruli to get immediate, reliable answers across their global footprint — without the outside counsel bill. What they've found: even outside the US/EU, Ruli anchors results in local law firms and government sources. Ruli's research goes where the business does. Claudia, thank you for your trust. We're just getting started and excited to bring the full platform to life for your team.
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Three months. Five cities. One pattern I can't stop thinking about. Since March, I've been on the road (and in the air 🙃) presenting, exhibiting, breaking bread, and sitting in rooms with legal leaders who are trying to figure out what comes next for Legal AI and in-house legal operations. Palo Alto. Seattle. DC. New York. Chicago. And here's what keeps showing up: there are two conversations happening in Legal AI right now. But, only one of them is happening in public. The public one is on conference stages, in vendor demos, across LinkedIn, etc. and it's about: - Tools - Adoption stats - Feature comparisons. - The number everyone keeps citing, "87% of in-house teams are now using AI." But the private conversation sounds completely different. It's in small rooms, over dinner with the Chrysler Building glowing through the windows, between sessions at CLOC (Corporate Legal Operations Consortium), in intimate roundtables hosted by The L Suite (TechGC) where legal leaders can actually be candid. The questions I keep hearing from general counsel, legal ops leaders, and in-house teams: - "We adopted three tools last year. I still can't tell you if any of them fit how my team actually works and makes decisions." or "I inherited 3 tools and have no idea how anyone is using them." - "When does buying another tool stop solving the problem?" - "How do I evaluate something I don't have language for yet?" - "What did I sign up for - I was hired as a lawyer, not a legal engineer?" These aren't feature questions. They're architecture questions. And they keep surfacing in private because the public conversation hasn't built the vocabulary for them yet. Legal teams aren't struggling with capability. They have more tools than ever. They're struggling with fit. With connective tissue between systems. With the gap between what a tool can do and how a team actually operates. The tools are getting better. The architecture conversation is just getting started. Next week I'll be in the City of Boston for its inaugural Tech Week presented by a16z speedrun. I'm curious whether the conversation will sound more like the public one or the private one. My former law firm Gunderson Dettmer is hosting events all week. And, this is a full circle moment for me from practicing at a law firm built to serve the tech ecosystem to building legal intelligence systems that in-house teams actually need. If you'll be in Boston, find me. I want to hear which conversation you're having. (Swipe for: the Ruli team with Sarah Irwin at CLOC, a quiet dinner in Manhattan, golden retriever puppies at CLOC, and a championship ring detour I did not see coming with Emmanuel Smith - yes, we are a Kansas City Chiefs home). #LegalAI #InHouseCounsel #BosTechWeek #LegalOps #LegalInnovation
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Excited to welcome TaskUs to the Ruli family. 🎉 TaskUs (Nasdaq: TASK) is a ~60,000-person global digital services company — the kind of operation where "legal questions come from everywhere" isn't a figure of speech. It's the job. With teams operating across dozens of jurisdictions worldwide, their legal team faces a challenge familiar to any in-house counsel at a scaled company: the research load is relentless, and farming everything out to outside counsel isn't a strategy. Claudia Walsh and her team are using Ruli to get immediate, reliable answers across their global footprint — without the outside counsel bill. What they've found: even outside the US/EU, Ruli anchors results in local law firms and government sources. Ruli's research goes where the business does. Claudia, thank you for your trust. We're just getting started and excited to bring the full platform to life for your team.
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