Harbor buys UK legal tech trainer iTrain in transatlantic adoption push
What's the deal? Harbor has acquired iTrainDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a UK legal technology training provider, folding its 15-person team into Harbor's enterprise solutions practice. iTrain's services will become an add-on for Harbor customers, with terms undisclosed.
What each side brings: iTrain helps law firms adopt technology, offering a Training-as-a-Service model and an AI-enabled learning platform. Founded in 2015 by former Brabners staffer Dorigen Sykes, it holds partnerships with iManage, Aderant, NetDocuments, Intapp, and Elite, and runs an active pipeline of Microsoft Copilot adoption programs.
Why now? Inadequate training remains one of the most consistently cited barriers to AI adoption in law firms, according to Wolters Kluwer's 2026 Future Ready Lawyer Survey. That gap persists even as law firm technology spending grew 9.7% in 2025 — the fastest real growth in the industry's history, per Thomson Reuters and Georgetown Law.
What's the endgame? The deal fills a missing link for Harbor on both sides of the Atlantic, following its November 2025 acquisition of US managed training provider EncoretechDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →. Justin Farmer, Harbor's practice group leader for enterprise solutions, said the aim is helping firms "maximize their technology spend when it comes to transformational technologies."
Farmer said iTrain holds market dominance around adoption, and that its content and methodologies are central to the deal. He praised Sykes for "building this practice around AI and adoption, especially Copilot and how that can be effective within these firms."
Sykes framed the logic simply. "We built iTrain around a simple belief: technology only delivers value when people actually use it well," she said. "Joining Harbor gives us a much bigger platform to deliver on that belief."
The signal: The acquisition is Harbor's latest since BayPineDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → took a majority stake in June 2024, a run that also included UK human capital firm CE Global Partners. As firms pour record sums into legal AI, the bottleneck is shifting from buying tools to getting lawyers to use them — and consolidators are moving to own the adoption layer.
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