Wing Baganta $ 10m for Legal Agents + Interviews Jake Jones + Simmons Deal

Wing Baganta $ 10m for Legal Agents + Interviews Jake Jones + Simmons Deal – Artificial Lawyer

While many legal technology companies were exploring LLM, on the side of Berlin Jake Jones (see Al Interviews below) was already good in building he. Now the company has earned $ 10 million in a new round of funding led by Insight Partners, which has also invested in Clio.

(Also, see below. The news that Simmons & Simmons have reached an arrangement with the wing to build agents – see the end of the article for more.)

As part of the investment, Sophie BesharVice President at Insight Partners, will join the Flank Board. Meanwhile, Gradient Ventures, 10x founders and HV Capital all also invested in this round – which, like Jones, the founder of the company, explained that it is a really great job for him and his team.

‘It’ is too big. This round is not just about escalating our market efforts and postponing our existing product to the market to a larger scale. It is about investing in a new paradigm. More specifically, we are investing a lot in product and engineering, especially in a new operating system for legal agent, and we are investing a lot in the construction of a company it has in its DNA, which is really AI-country, ‘he said Artificial lawyer.

There are more details about what Flank does – and will do – in the interview below, but here is the official description from the company:

‘Autonomous and proactive agents interacting with business directly to resolve their requirements at the point of need.
Embedded intelligence and ultimately invisible This unlocks business smoothly and proactively. No new interfaces. There are no additional tools.
The owner’s engine that kills vector recovery framesProvides aware of the context and can be personalized in seconds with natural languages.
Enterprise scale supervision engine Combines the supervision of the owner with the addition of human experts, preventing the misuse and provision of performance. ‘

‘Flank is integrated smoothly into the course of work of a company, becoming the first line of defense for the legal teams. He agent reviews, designs and red lines key legal documents and answers autonomously to legal questions and compliance throughout the company in minutes, not days. Unlike Chatbots or Kopilots, FLAN’s autonomous agents solve direct requirements at the point of need – operating within the tools already in use, such as e -mail teams, slow and Microsoft. There are no new interfaces, no additional software and no employee retraining is required, ‘they explained.

Lili BreidenbachThe Flank Director General commented: ‘The legal teams are overloaded with repeated tasks, with high volume that drains time and resources. Flank allows them to focus on high value work while our agent deals with the rest-invisibly, autonomously and embedded within the business. ‘

Beshar at Insight Partners added: ‘Flank is helping to determine a new category of enterprise software – autonomous agents that are embedded, invisible and capable of real scale work. Legal teams are among the most expansive in modern organizations, and FLANK’s approach unlocks speed, accuracy and massive lever without disrupting work flows. ‘

And now In -depth interview with founder, Jake Jones

How important is this investment for you? Seed means about certifying your view of agents?

It is very large this round is not just about escalating our market efforts and pushing our existing product to the market to a larger degree. It is about investing in a new paradigm. More specifically, we are investing a lot in product and engineering, especially in a new operating system for legal agent, and we are investing a lot in the construction of a company it has in its DNA, which is truly a-country. We chose to partnership with Insight in this round because the Insight team uniquely shared our thesis on the future of the legal one: this is not about more efficient lawyers, it has to do with the systems of fully autonomous experts who fully define the way of providing legal services. There is a wave coming here. And I am excited excited we are in its vanguard.

You’ve worked hard with agents – now everyone is doing it – what made the market get caught and where are we going?

Legal work has always been strongly associated with human expertise. If you want to escalate the amount of legal work you can do, you need to escalate your legal team account. This has always been the case. And that is why the golden problem to solve within the legal field is to break down legal expertise from people. Suddenly, a lawyer can do the work of ten lawyers. As a legal technology seller, you will have to be crazy so that you do not want to solve this problem. We have tried to break down legal expertise from people to come in eight years. Others are gradually realizing that this is the golden problem. But still, few believe it is solvable at any time soon.

Many sellers are now pretending to be building “agents”. The reality is that the available agents are dramatically improved months by month. We now have operator, MCP, Arcade.dev, Langgraph, etc. These tools are doing basic agents – that make relatively simple tasks – a commodity. In no way does it mean that many sellers are building very capable, autonomous legal systems that can make sense of the production of a legal team. On the contrary, the “agent” has become a kind of marketing meme to symbolize any system that “does something” in another system or any multi -steps orchestration. This is not a criticism of platforms that most legal sellers are building. Many are powerful, influential systems that enable lawyers to complete tasks faster (in some cases, much, much faster). On the contrary, I am simply highlighting a difference: the arm is empowering lawyers to recover from the loop completely. Wing agents are not another tool to use lawyers.

Why will agents change the world of legal work … .. and what should we do to make that future happen?

If you break down the legal expertise from the people, the cost of legal services will decline. No more billable hours. Many – perhaps most legal services will become a commodity. The business model of the big duty law will be broken. It will be dramatic. The new land -built legal firms with that in their DNA will provide the same service or better at a lower price. Great law will be obliged to respond to protect their boundaries … You can see where this is going. At the bottom, the main home-friendly consumers-will benefit and the secondary consumers of the home business at home-will benefit. Legal departments will no longer be a business obstacle. We will stop negotiating vain terms in agreements that are still impossible to contest. We will stop the linguistic data debate.

To get there, we need salesmen with very wild imaginations. We need lawyers with entrepreneurial instincts to build new types of legal firm. We need the law and regulation to relocate to empower these new types of legal firm. Of course we need quite powerful models, but this is inevitable in the very near future.

Congratulations Jake and the team! Look forward to seeing the arm grow and grow.

You can find more about the arm here.

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Ps more arm news…. This time with Simmons & Simmons

International Legal Firm Simmons & Simmons has today announced a partnership with Flank. It involves developing some agents projects with Simmons, many of which are live and now support the firm teams and its clients, they said.

Autonomous Frank Legal Agents are able to review, draw up, and key legal documents of the red line and provide answers to legal questions and compliance within minutes.

Simmons has already begun to develop and integrate agents to provide expanded legal services to clients, with a major application that is an agent capable of processing non-disclosure agreements.

Acting as a ‘digital collaborator’, the Sophisticated Firm NDA agent can efficiently manage the requirements, mark the documents and escalate more complex issues when needed. E -mail accessible, the agent offers a smooth integration into the existing Simmons work flow, the firm said.

Other developing Simmons agents with wing include those specialized in data processing agreements (DPA), service agreements and investment management agreements (IMA).

Lucy ShurwoodPartner at Simmons & Simmons, commented: ‘Autonomous agents are not the future … They are already here, and they are transforming the way we work. Through our partnership with flank, we have embedded agents that provide legal results from end to end. We are launching agents dealing with the drafting, review and negotiations of the DPA, service agreements, IMA, and more. These agents are live, in production and already have a real impact on our teams and our clients. ‘

Peter LeePartner at Simmons & Simmons, added: ‘Our agents of it have a significant impact on the way we offer to our clients, adding to the work of our legal teams and compliance. As fully integrated, integrated digital collaborators, they are already treating large volumes of routine demands, freeing our lawyers to focus on more complex, high -value work. ‘

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