Belgian AI law firm Falcon launches in the Netherlands with a fixed monthly price
Falcon, from Ghent and Brussels, calls itself an 'AI-native' law firm for commercial contracts, such as NDAs, customer and supplier agreements, and data processing agreements. You send a contract via Slack or Teams. The AI checks it against a playbook you have set up in advance and suggests changes. A lawyer reviews the result and signs off on it. Falcon charges a fixed monthly fee instead of an hourly rate and raised €1.5 million in pre-seed funding to expand into the Netherlands, France and the United Kingdom.
What does this mean? For law firms and in-house counsel in the Netherlands, there is new competition with fixed prices for standard contracts.
UvA researchers: AI may cloud the 'judicial gaze'
Iris van Domselaar and Isabella Banks (UvA) warn in their study 'Loss of judicial sight?' that AI can influence a judge's perception even before a decision is made. According to them, a system can subtly steer attention towards certain circumstances, reinforce biases or push relevant perspectives into the background. It is therefore not enough for AI to remain 'supportive': its influence on what the judge sees also requires safeguards.
What does this mean? Do you have your AI summarise case files or draft documents? Then read the documents yourself too, so the tool does not decide what you notice.
