THE CIVIC STACK
SECTION 14
ISSUE 001
Human Sign-Off as Legal Interface
Projection: Investment in legal workflows opens room for a different control surface: every consequential machine action could pause on counsel’s approval, edits, and stated reasoning. Nothing cited shows that interface in production. Proof requires products to preserve who accepted responsibility, for what decision, and why.
Why this idea is here
What the evidence establishes.
Source-backed premise: the cited captures establish legal-AI funding and workflow investment. Editorial projection: Products should make supervising counsel’s approval, edits, rationale, and accountability explicit at consequential steps. The sources do not prove that outcome; the observable adoption test is whether legal products record supervising counsel's approval, edits, rationale, and accountability at consequential steps.
Source ledger
Read the sources.
- S01Harvey Raises at $11 Billion Valuation
company disclosure / published 2026-03-25 / retrieved 2026-07-09
- S02Legora extends Series D
company disclosure / published 2026-04-30 / retrieved 2026-07-09
- S03Legora raises $550 million to speed US expansion
independent reporting / published 2026-03-10 / retrieved 2026-07-09