Corporate AI investment

Kirkland & Ellis is co-developing an AI platform with Palantir as part of a multi-year technology partnership. The firm says the platform is part of a $500 million plan to build its own AI technology for private equity fund formation work.

Relativity says its continued R&D investment fuels its cloud-native, AI-powered platform and related legal data work. It also says Rel Labs is its innovation hub and investment arm for legal AI startups.

Blackstone’s in-house legal team is collaborating with Norm Law, which is built to deliver AI-native legal services. The article says the firm was being built in collaboration with Blackstone’s internal legal team, and separately notes Blackstone invested $50 million in Norm Ai, an affiliated company that makes AI agents.

Norm Ai received a $50 million investment from Blackstone and Stonecroft Management to bolster its AI development and launch Norm Law, a new New York-based LLP. The firm’s attorneys will customize and oversee the work of Norm Ai’s regulatory agents.

McDermott Will & Schulte reinvests as an anchor investor in The LegalTech Fund's second fund, putting $10 million behind legal technology innovation. The firm says the partnership gives it access to the latest innovations shaping the future of law and helps it deliver more value for clients.

Microsoft’s Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs organization will use the Harvey platform to support its legal and compliance operations. The page frames this as the legal department becoming a Harvey customer.

Silverchair runs an AI Lab and uses it to put prototypes in front of clients early, learning in the open rather than waiting for certainty. The page frames this as the way they work on AI in their publishing-related product environment.

LexisNexis is part of an AI partnership aimed at in-house legal teams, with legal content to be accessed inside Luminance’s contract drafting tool. The page describes a deal to integrate offerings for legal workflows, but gives no budget or spend amount.

Filevine says it has been shipping AI into real legal work and is using evaluation-driven development to improve the LOIS agentic layer and its underlying Knowledge Engine. The page describes in-house attorneys, a dedicated annotation team, and a case synthesizer as part of that internal effort.

Opus 2 develops award-winning, AI-enabled software for the practice of law and says its solutions are built on a flexible platform for firms. The page does not state a new budget or amount, only that the company builds AI-enabled legal software.

Harbor launched Harbor Deploy, a dedicated offering to put AI to work inside law firms and corporate legal departments. It embeds specialist teams inside client organizations to move AI from pilot into daily use.

The firm says FoxAI is its multi-tool approach to applying AI in practical, industry-specific ways that complement legal work and strengthen client service. It also describes a dedicated Innovation team, required AI training, and internal support for attorneys using AI.

The US law firm said its artificial intelligence tool for structured products documentation could be extended to ISDA agreements, repo documentation and derivatives confirmations. The stated aim is to automate documentation across instruments.

Actionstep released Actionstep Intelligence, an AI layer built directly into its practice management platform for midsize law firms. It is designed to surface business insights, identify revenue opportunities, and help users execute approved legal operational and financial workflows.

Bird & Bird hired a technology partner and three former EY colleagues to launch a legal transformation team. The team is intended to develop legaltech and AI capabilities to make routine client work more efficient.

Elastic selected Casepoint and standardized eDiscovery and legal hold on the platform for its legal team. The move is part of Elastic's legal operations modernization and is intended to reduce outside costs and improve handling of legal data.

Aloi raised a further €6.1 million to accelerate product development for its decision intelligence platform for legal teams, alongside international expansion and commercial growth. The funding will also support continued investment in its engineering and commercial teams.

GC AI acquired backend software company Jetify to boost the infrastructure behind its newly launched Contract Intelligence solution and future AI tools. The commitment is an internal build-and-acquire step for its legal product line.

HSP GRUPPE, a network that includes law firms, embedded ChatGPT Enterprise across tax advisory, legal research, client communication, financial analysis, and knowledge sharing. It is also standardizing successful use cases into custom Agents and piloting ChatGPT Work to safely automate more complex workflows.

Pinsent Masons said it has taken steps to put safeguards on its use of an internal AI pilot after the court incident involving AI-generated errors. The article does not state any budget or formal spending figure for the pilot.

Pinsent Masons piloted Lexis+ AI to support legal research, drafting, and review as part of its long-standing focus on practical innovation. The firm explored internal use cases and measured time savings and user adoption during the trial.

Kirkland & Ellis has agreed a multiyear deal with Palantir to develop AI technology to help it advise private equity groups on raising money from investors. The page describes this as an internal capability-building effort rather than a product sale.

Gowling WLG has an AI, Innovation and Knowledge Team, and Michelle Fernando works as Director of Practice Technology within it. The page says she leads a team that supports AI-enabled legal service delivery and strategic investment decisions, indicating an internal capability investment in AI and legal technology.

LexisNexis is building and marketing Lexis+ with Protégé, a legal AI workflow solution for drafting, research, and analysis. The page presents it as an integrated AI assistant grounded in LexisNexis sources and customers’ documents to improve legal work.

Icertis says the Dioptra acquisition marks the next milestone in its long-term AI strategy following the launch of its own AI capability, Icertis Vera. The company says the deal will help build on the Icertis platform with pre-signature agents for playbook creation and first-line review of new agreements.

IndusLaw has a similar partnership with the startup Jurisphere to improve efficiency. The article says such collaborations help firms outsource parts of their workflow.

Trilegal partnered with an AI platform called Lucio to automate document review and due diligence tasks. The page presents this as an internal efficiency move to improve workflows.

A&O Shearman partnered with Harvey to develop an antitrust tool that analyses financial data and identifies merger-filing obligations across more than 130 jurisdictions. The article says the tool is part of the firm's growing portfolio of AI-powered subscription products.

Allen & Overy integrated Harvey, an AI platform built on OpenAI's GPT models, within its global business to help more than 3,500 lawyers generate and access legal content more efficiently. The page says A&O has been testing Harvey in beta since November 2022 and using it across multiple practice areas.

Ford says its legal team will continue to invest and expand its AI capabilities in-house. The article says Ford now employs AI across the full spectrum of its legal practice areas and views this as a way to improve productivity and legal service delivery.

Freshfields chose to partner with AI giant Anthropic rather than use Harvey or Legora. The article says it wants more freedom to tinker with the AI model itself.

The firm introduced Lexis Nexis AI system Protégé to its 220 lawyers and appointed an AI governance lead to oversee use of the technology. The article says the AI is being used across departments, especially in high-volume legal aid matters, to improve efficiency and access to justice.

Gunderson rolled out Perplexity Enterprise firmwide and is using it as an internal AI platform for lawyers. The firm says the tool provides rapid, cited context and amplifies attorney expertise.

Clio and The Florida Bar unveiled a program giving eligible bar members free access to Clio Work, Clio’s AI workspace, plus structured training on responsible and ethical AI use. The benefit is intended to make safe, secure legal AI easier for lawyers to adopt.

Clio is launching a free education and certification program and pledging to train 25,000 legal professionals on legal AI before ClioCon 2026. The company says it is investing in education to help legal professionals build the AI capabilities needed in a rapidly evolving profession.

The firm has internally built an artificial intelligence platform called FundAssist. It is intended to help associates in the private funds group work on more deals and ramp up faster rather than cut headcount.

Centerbase is launching Centerbase IQ, an AI-powered natural language chat tool embedded in its practice management platform to give firms citation-backed answers from their own operational data. It is also creating an internal knowledge base capability so firms can encode their own benchmarks and best practices.

The page says Fried Frank has a new internally-built AI for its private equity practice. No dollar amount is stated on the page.

At the firm, associate James Phoenix built an AI time recording tool as a side project. The article says it is now deployed firmwide, showing an internal adoption of a lawyer-built AI tool.

Lawyers at the firm used vibe coding to create an AI policy training game as an internal web application. The example is presented as a fully functional tool built through natural language prompts for internal use.

The firm enabled no-code automation tools through its Microsoft subscription so associates could build AI-enabled workflows. Those tools were used internally to create document-processing tools and other automations that were later adopted by the firm.

Anthropic is expanding Claude for legal use by releasing more than 20 MCP connectors, 12 practice-area plugins, and integrations with Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint. The article describes this as a major internal push aimed at law firms, in-house teams, and the legal tech ecosystem, including an access-to-justice component.

The firm selected August as its firmwide AI platform after a four-month evaluation. It is deploying it across practice areas as well as finance, billing, marketing, operations, and administration to support the whole firm, not just lawyers.

Honigman partnered with Hotshot to deliver AI training for its own attorneys and to extend that model to client education. The firm is using the partnership to strengthen its AI capabilities and provide hands-on experience with AI tools.

Kirkland & Ellis and Palantir launched a proprietary enterprise platform for private equity fundraising as part of a multiyear partnership. The firm said it is building a new operating model for legal services and a revolutionary fund formation engine to scale its knowledge and support fund formation clients more efficiently.

Harvey has deepened its engagement with Microsoft by providing its legal AI platform to Microsoft’s Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs team. This is an internal-use deployment at a corporate legal department.

The firm is partnering with OpenAI to develop AI solutions across its legal and business operations, including a firmwide rollout of ChatGPT. The page describes this as an internal deployment to support the firm’s work.

Covenant is an AI-powered law firm that was built with AI as the starting premise for how legal services should be delivered. The firm says it is designing its workflow, technology stack and client interface around AI to reduce time and cost for private-markets legal work.

Dentsu is an early adopter of Harvey and is using its agentic workflows and Shared Spaces for legal operations collaboration. The page describes Dentsu as exploring how agentic AI and collaborative Shared Spaces fit into its in-house legal team’s work.

The firm is developing Contract Matrix as an early productized legal workflow. The article cites it as an example of law firms building AI-enabled tools in-house rather than relying only on general-purpose models.

The firm says it builds AI-powered legal products with hundreds of lawyers around its global network and uses those products internally to deliver legal advice more efficiently. It also says its lawyers help test, give feedback, and suggest improvements throughout development.

The firm created a team of programmers and engineers with legal backgrounds to integrate AI into its legal work. The page says this was done more than a dozen years ago as part of the firm’s technology and innovation efforts.

Macfarlanes says it is continuing to invest in practical innovation, including expanding its law tech team and launching Amplify, an AI-powered tool for in-house teams to process legal documents and contractual data. The firm also says it was one of the first UK firms to partner with Harvey.

Linklaters created a team of 20 lawyers to help deploy artificial intelligence technology across the firm. After training, the team will advise lawyers worldwide on using AI to improve workflows and client service.

NetDocuments added six new apps to its ndMAX Studio program. The apps cover trademark prosecution and plaintiff-side litigation tasks such as pre-filing review, PTO response drafting, deadline tracking, medical chronologies, demand letters, and expert witness profiles.

Epiq launched early access to expanded agentic capabilities in Epiq AI Accelerate. The capabilities use Anthropic's Claude models with proprietary software and are intended to automate system-wide legal service workflows through natural-language requests.

Descrybe launched an initiative that lets law firms and legal organizations build custom AI-powered legal research tools on top of its Legal Engine. The page describes open-source components for connecting custom applications and prebuilt workflows for research tasks.

Corsearch says it plans to continue investing in AI-powered technology across its Zeal and TrademarkNow products. The article does not give a dollar figure or further details on the commitment.

Orrick launched the Orrick AI Law Center, which includes a U.S. AI law tracker and an EU AI Act content series. The page presents it as part of the firm’s leadership in AI and its commitment to guiding clients through AI’s legal and regulatory issues.

Flo AI has launched talent-analytics capabilities for law firms, including questions about recruiting sources, associate performance, and how skills have changed with AI adoption. The company says firm leaders have not previously been able to answer these questions from their own data in seconds.

Intapp announced Celeste, an AI coworker that runs business-of-the-firm workflows including deal screening, conflicts clearance, business development, and lateral hiring. It is grounded in each firm's proprietary knowledge and governed by the firm's own methods and compliance rules.

Clio hired George Totev as Vice President, Security and Chief Information Security Officer to lead its global security, compliance, risk, and privacy functions as legal professionals bring more sensitive work into AI-powered tools.

Everlaw is building and launching AI-enabled products and features for legal teams, including generative AI tools and a public records and FOIA request solution. The page also notes Everlaw's CTO discussing agentic AI, indicating continued internal AI product investment.

Fisher Phillips says it has made a substantial investment in technology and artificial intelligence and has strategically built a tech-driven platform to improve client service. It also says it developed FP Collab, a client platform for real-time visibility into legal matters, spend management, and business resources.

The firm used AI-assisted e-discovery during the UK COVID inquiry. The page cites it as an internal deployment for handling large document volumes.

Georgian Partners says it uses an in-house AI Lab to develop proprietary tools and work directly with portfolio company engineering teams, including writing code to accelerate product development, improve operational efficiency, and support scalable growth.

Thomsons is one of only two local firms named as having built its own general-purpose AI platform. The article presents this as an internal capability investment to improve efficiency and compete on AI use.

Gunderson has a multi-year developmental relationship with Draftwise and uses the tool as part of its innovation strategy. The article says the partnership has helped inform Draftwise’s latest release and is intended to enhance the firm’s ability to serve clients.

Draftwise announced new capabilities for its agentic AI offering and expanded its team. The article describes product enhancements aimed at helping lawyers analyze precedents, validate term sheets, and receive strategic contract guidance.

The firm is hiring a Senior Innovation Manager to support its firmwide Innovation Committee and drive the adoption of legal technology and AI tools. The role would help deliver the firm's legal technology and AI strategy, training, and innovation programs.

The firm hired Anthony Vigneron as its new head of innovation, a role that will lead AI and legal-tech strategy from February 2026. The page also says Slaughter and May has been building internal capability around Microsoft Copilot and Azure AI tooling.

The firm established the Markets Innovation Group to focus on tech-enabled legal solutions, with a current emphasis on generative AI. The group is meant to help the firm use AI internally more efficiently and also build client-facing solutions.

Freshfields Lab now oversees 30 developers worldwide who work closely with lawyers and clients to develop technical solutions to legal problems. The article presents this as part of the firm’s broader internal push to integrate technology into legal workflows.

Clifford Chance started deploying its generative AI tool, Clifford Chance Assist, on Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI platform. The firm also announced the rollout of Microsoft 365, Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Viva Suite as part of its AI and productivity investment.

The firm is investing internally in AI-related capability through dedicated roles, including a Head of Practice and AI System and a Virtual AI Specialist. The article says effective AI adoption requires dedicated headcount and ongoing training and governance.

Debevoise offers the Debevoise STAAR subscription service, an online suite of tools to help clients with AI adoption. The page presents it as part of the firm’s own AI capability and client-facing infrastructure, but states no dollar commitment.

Debevoise says it is using AI to help its lawyers work more efficiently while maintaining legal judgment, rigorous governance, and client quality standards. The firm has launched a new AI@Debevoise page explaining how it uses AI across the firm.

Cleary’s DLT group has pioneered technology-enabled discovery and litigation solutions and says it uses advanced AI, predictive coding, large language models, and generative AI to improve efficiency, cost savings, and defensibility in client matters.

Kirkland formed a 600-lawyer cross-disciplinary real assets group aimed squarely at the AI buildout and also hired a head of real estate innovation to deploy AI products across the practice. The group is piloting AI products for administrative tasks such as transferring titles and dealing with zoning.

Chris Kercher founded the AI and Data Analytics Group at Quinn Emanuel as a laboratory to explore how the firm's lawyers could better leverage AI. The article says he spent three years exploring AI applications in his practice and saw the group as a way to integrate AI into the firm's work.

The firm is rolling out AI personas modeled on 19 partners to answer questions and edit drafts in each lawyer’s style. It developed the tools with a Stanford Law School innovation lab and says associates and partners are already using them to refine drafts, test legal theories, and spot risks in deals.

The firm offers staff an 'innovation hours' programme that lets lawyers allocate up to 50 billable hours to explore ways to make their work more creative, efficient or client-focused. The article presents it as an internal AI-related experimentation effort.

The firm expanded its partnership with AI provider Hebbia to streamline document review and data analysis in high-stakes transactions. It is also rolling out training so first-year associates can spend around 20% of their billable time on generative AI adoption and integration.

Ropes & Gray announced that it has adopted Centari across its premier transactional practices to enhance AI-driven counsel. The page describes this as a platform deployment inside the firm, but gives no dollar figure.

The firm brought in a chief digital and information officer to oversee its global digital and technology agenda, including the deployment of AI and other emerging technologies. The hire is intended to keep Skadden at the forefront as AI and data become more central to client needs.

Latham & Watkins deployed Kira Systems AI for document review in M&A and financing processes. It identifies clause-level risks across thousands of contracts and reduces multi-week associate work to under one day.

Allen & Overy pioneered deploying Harvey, built on GPT-4, firm-wide. The system assists with legal research, memo drafting, and case law analysis to generate time savings and improve consistency across deliverables.

The firm integrated Harvey AI to analyze and compare hundreds of contract clauses in complex due diligences. It replaced weeks of manual review by senior associates with work completed in hours to free time for higher-value work and reduce error risk.

Hogan Lovells created its legaltech subsidiary ELTEMATE to build legal technology for clients and provide consulting. The page says its technology has included AI-powered document-drafting software and a multilingual tracker of regulations.

Gibson Dunn is hiring a Legal Technology Solutions Architect to advance the firm’s Legal Technology and Artificial Intelligence initiatives. The role is meant to develop AI-enabled solutions, support adoption of AI across the firm, and work with internal teams on legal and business workflows.

The firm spent on legal tech software over the past year while opening a new Manhattan office. The article links this to changing how its lawyers will practice, including AI use.

The firm spent on legal tech software while expanding its San Francisco office. The article says Mintz is not currently looking at reducing headcount.

The firm launched a San Francisco office and was developing two internal AI platforms. The article ties this to broader firm growth and investment in technology.

Clio is building and integrating multiple AI products for legal work, including Vincent by Clio, Clio Work, and Manage AI. The page says these tools are designed to bring advanced research, drafting, and productivity capabilities into Clio’s platform for firms of all sizes.

The firm announced a partnership with Dioptra to launch an AI-powered contract-review system through its internal technology platform Neuron. The system is now available to clients for a fixed fee.

The firm plans to use AI agents to assist with high-volume contract management, contract-remediation projects, and M&A contract harmonization. The page says AI outputs will be reviewed by experienced lawyers.

The firm is developing its own in-house AI, led by partner and self-taught coder Josias Dewey. The planned AI agent will help lawyers review and edit complex financial agreements and speed up contract review.

The firm has its own secure GPT-4 environment called FleetAI for quicker first drafts and instant answers to legal queries. It is working to make the model customer-facing and integrate it into more aspects of practice.

The firm expanded access to an in-house version of Harvey branded as CelIA, which it uses to analyze complex contracts and generate first drafts. The page says it first rolled out Harvey to 100 attorneys before expanding to 1,200 lawyers across 26 offices.

The firm developed its own proprietary, in-house cloud-based AI platform called Vanilla to help investment fund clients stay in compliance with federal securities laws. It also launched Cooley GObot, an AI-powered chatbot for its Cooley GO resource hub.

The firm says Reinvent by Baker McKenzie is its innovation program, combining its Applied AI team, practice innovation, alternative legal services, legal project management, e-discovery and data advisory teams to transform how it delivers for clients and the firm. It is using the program to build customized GenAI tools and workflows for legal work and cybersecurity incident response.

DLA Piper developed proactive compliance as a service, a platform that combines traditional machine learning with proprietary small language models trained by domain-specific expert lawyers. It is hosted and run end-to-end by DLA Piper so clients can receive privileged, proactive risk flagging.

DLA Piper is building SAGE, a systematic approach to data-driven AI governance, to help organizations navigate overlapping and conflicting AI requirements. The framework uses human subject-matter experts and AI algorithms to break regulations into component parts and distill non-duplicative requirements.

Latham & Watkins says it uses Perplexity Enterprise to help the firm stay at the forefront of the legal industry. The page describes this as an internal AI capability investment through adoption of the tool, not a startup funding event.

Crosby is building an AI-first law firm focused entirely on contract negotiations. The founders say they are structuring the company as a law firm with lawyers and AI engineers working side-by-side to automate negotiations and accelerate contract turnaround.

The firm says it leverages cutting-edge AI tools within its own practice to enhance the speed, precision, and insight of its legal services. It also developed internal guidelines for using AI to create content while maintaining copyright protection and for protecting AI prompts.

The firm says it is committed to the responsible use of artificial intelligence and has adopted policies and implemented trainings to address the risks of improper AI use. It is also undertaking an investigation after an AI-related citation failure in a court filing.

Cleary Gottlieb is using its internal partner platform, Labora, to synthesize notes, pull out action items, and generate executive summaries from meetings. The transcript presents this as part of the firm’s internal AI-enabled workflow for improving efficiency and follow-through.

Axiom says it has developed the company's AI and technology platforms since joining its inaugural Research & Development team in 2018. The page also describes Axiom piloting AI tools internally for its lawyer bench and business side, but gives no dollar commitment.

The firm is described as having invested in NMBL Technologies, a legal workflow management tool it hoped to sell to clients. The page says the firm’s plan was to sell tech-enabled legal products rather than rely on traditional billable hours.

PwC signed a strategic deal making Harvey available to thousands of its legal professionals. The article frames this as internal access for its own legal workforce.

The firm was an early adopter of Harvey AI, piloting the platform with more than 3,500 lawyers before rolling it out firmwide. The article presents this as an internal deployment to embed the tool in firm workflows.

Jackson Lewis says it has AI-powered assistants and productivity tools embedded into its operational processes to improve research, drafting, and substantive analysis. It also says its innovation initiatives are guided by a robust internal AI policy.

The firm says it has made a strategic decision to invest in AI now. The article also says Tyson & Mendes uses Traced, an AI-driven tool for automatic timekeeping and billing entries.

Cyril Shroff established a centre at Jindal Global Law School focused on AI governance, law, and regulation. The page describes it as a legacy initiative tied to his firm’s ethos and his interest in technology and society.

Gunderson signed a commercial agreement with Draftwise in 2021 and rolled the platform out to all attorneys. The firm says it had been experimenting with LLMs for extracting insights from contract language since 2021 and used the collaboration to build an AI-ready culture among attorneys.

Stinson has an internal AI Task Force, led by David Axtell, to help the firm's multidisciplinary efforts around artificial intelligence. The page describes the firm as focusing on internal AI governance and policy strategy, but gives no dollar amount or other concrete budget commitment.

Stephenson Harwood says it has a central innovation team and core technology platforms that include generative AI, and it built a custom contract review solution within its generative AI platform SHarper AI. The firm uses this to support its lawyers with text extraction, legal analysis and reporting for client work.

Homburger is listed among previously announced customers using DeepJudge. The article does not give a monetary commitment or a named internal AI group.

CMS Switzerland is listed among previously announced customers using DeepJudge. No budget, hiring plan, or internal fund is described on the page.

Schoenherr is using DeepJudge to support its AI and knowledge initiatives. A firm representative says it will fit into the solutions portfolio and further advance strategic AI initiatives.

ArentFox Schiff is named as a customer using DeepJudge for its AI and knowledge initiatives. The article provides no dollar figure or separate internal AI program name.

Cozen O’Connor is named as a customer using DeepJudge for AI and knowledge initiatives. The page does not state any internal funding amount or headcount commitment.

BNY created a centralized AI Hub and launched an internal AI deployment and education platform called Eliza to support enterprise-wide generative AI use. The page says the bank trained employees on responsible AI use and now has 20,000 employees actively building AI agents.

Kennedys is partnering with Spellbook to create an AI training programme for its junior lawyers. The training uses simulated frameworks and AI-assisted exercises to build contract drafting skills.

The firm’s data science team built a tool to generate and optimize lawyer website bios using secure AI tools. It draws from time sheets, the Foundation knowledge management platform, and public websites to improve accuracy and search visibility.

The firm’s technology innovation team built Ask Ellis, a proprietary chatbot for drafting, analysis, and other everyday work tasks. It was created because leadership would not use a public tool like ChatGPT for privacy and security reasons.

MIG developed ContractMatrix Vantage, a lawyer-led generative AI tool for complex legal analysis across large portfolios of documents. The firm is also building a module for CRD VI-related loan transfer reviews at scale.

Ballard Spahr built X-Ray, a large-scale RFP document repository with chat features using Microsoft cloud and GenAI. The firm also built Ask Ellis, a proprietary chatbot, to give users a secure internal AI tool for everyday work tasks.

The firm hired former Walmart leader Pritesh Patel to bolster its AI capabilities. The article frames the move as part of law firms racing to adapt to rapid AI developments.

The firm recruited Michael Yang from Adobe to bolster its AI capabilities. The article presents the hire as part of a broader push by large firms to adapt to generative AI.

TLT launched TLT Intelligence, combining its in-house AI expertise with market-leading AI technologies to improve its own legal services and help clients accelerate AI adoption. The firm says it has been embedding AI into day-to-day operations, including contract review and complex transactional and regulatory matters, and integrating it into outsourcing solutions.

Vorys developed and launched AIV Labor, a proprietary agentic GenAI product for employment-law questions. The page also says a multidisciplinary team of Vorys attorneys and professionals is developing, researching, and testing GenAI-supported software to improve firm operations and client offerings.

The firm says it is equipping its teams with tools powered by generative AI and other next-generation technologies, along with tailored training and collaborative frameworks. It frames this as an investment to help teams work smarter, more efficiently, and more creatively.

The firm created a centralized AI Studio for training and governance and launched a gamified AI-user certification process. It is part of the firm’s AI strategy and was recognized for innovation and compliance efforts.

Valor led the seed investment in Visalaw in 2025. The page says Valor backed the company because it was built inside the problem and applies AI to immigration law workflows.

The firm is expected to invest more heavily in building its own bespoke technology solutions to complement what it buys from external vendors, including client-facing offerings. The article frames this as part of a broader shift toward more embedded AI-enhanced legal delivery.

The firm is hiring non-lawyer AI technicians to develop internal workflows and tools, rather than relying on off-the-shelf solutions. Those staff are helping build custom AI implementations to improve patent prior art searches, contract review, and research capabilities while managing security and confidentiality risks.

Sidley’s leadership prioritized building the firm’s knowledge management capabilities by investing in hardware and software so the firm could better understand what it knew, who knew it, and where to find it. The goal was to make the firm a collective intelligence.

Gusto's legal team uses AI to monitor thousands of rules across employment law, benefits, and corporate compliance. The system is trained on Gusto's business and helps route rule-change summaries to the right lawyers so they can spend more time advising the business.

The firm’s teams developed their own custom workflows for transactional work. The page says these workflows help streamline due diligence reviews and save time on diligence reviews for unstructured data rooms.

The firm’s co-founder and CEO says he failed at an AI rollout, then studied change management and built a framework so new technology would be embraced firm-wide. The page describes this as a model for sustainable AI implementation, with the team using tools like EvenUp.

Thomson Reuters bought Noetica and said it will connect it to its broader CoCounsel offering. The article says TR is trying to create new value in its transactional add-ons and become a major platform for deal work.

Webber Wentzel spun out its AI and innovation arm, Fusion, as an autonomous subsidiary to broaden its mandate and optimise AI use for clients. The initiative grew out of the firm's internal offering and is aimed at delivering AI solutions, playbooks, workflows, and support services.

The firm is built to run on Claude AI, using it as core infrastructure across its work. The article describes a configured internal setup with personalisation, shared projects, skills, and Microsoft 365 integration to speed up drafting and review.

HSF Kramer hired Ilona Logvinova as its first global chief AI officer and is running a team of internal 'forward-deployed legal engineers' to embed AI into lawyers' workflows. The firm is using this structure to make AI tools actually get used across the firm.

Orrick says it has been on a journey to transform the M&A process for several years, and its Director of Orrick Labs describes the firm as using Draftwise as a valuable innovation partner. The page indicates Orrick is building internal innovation capability around AI-enabled deal work, but it does not state a dollar commitment.

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer announced a firm-wide adoption of Legora. The page presents this as an internal deployment of AI capability across the firm.

Barclays agreed a global deal with Legora to roll out its platform across the lender’s entire in-house legal team. The adoption spans more than 40 countries and is an internal deployment of AI tools for legal work.

K&L Gates became one of the first law firms globally to earn ISO 42001 AI governance certification. The certification indicates its Artificial Intelligence Management System has formal controls around accountability, risk management, ethics, transparency, data protection, and regulatory compliance.

McDermott Will & Emery has publicly acknowledged exploring a management services organization structure that could accept outside investment. The page presents this as part of a broader trend of law firms considering new capital structures.

Cohen & Gresser has publicly acknowledged exploring a management services organization structure that could accept outside investment. The page frames this as a potential way to bring in capital while complying with non-lawyer ownership restrictions.

Freshfields says 5,000 professionals firmwide now use AI tools built with Google’s Gemini models through its strategic collaboration with Google Cloud. The firm has integrated Gemini across bespoke legal solutions developed by Freshfields Lab and has rolled out NotebookLM Enterprise and Google Workspace with Gemini for legal and business workflows.

Altria built an AI legal front door for its legal department, aiming to improve intake, increase visibility, reduce outside counsel spend, and create a foundation for scalable AI in legal. The page says it achieved 80–90% adoption.

The patent firm built a proprietary AI patent tool suite inside its own practice to support drafting, prosecution, portfolio intelligence, and analytics. The page says the tools were developed by practicing patent professionals and used in active attorney workflows to improve efficiency, consistency, quality, and strategic insight.

The firm is integrating AI into client service and business functions through a cross-functional team of lawyers and business professionals. Every lawyer can use AI after mandated ethical training.

Axiom provides AI tools together with trained legal talent and technical support for in-house legal teams, positioning the offering as a way to help clients adopt AI contract review and analysis without building the capability internally from scratch. The page says Axiom assessed over 50 tools, selected eight for in-depth review and pilot testing, and manages training and onboarding to deliver immediate value.

The page says the firm has internal innovation labs that build custom AI workflows. No specific budget or date is provided.

The page says the firm has internal innovation labs that build custom AI workflows. No specific budget or date is provided.

The firm is described as using multiple AI tools, including Harvey and CoCounsel. The page does not state a budget or internal build, only that it has adopted these tools.

The firm uses Harvey AI and has a dedicated AI committee overseeing usage. The page frames this as structured internal governance around AI adoption.

The firm is listed as having Harvey AI plus an internal innovation lab. The page indicates the lab is part of its internal AI activity, but gives no dollar figure.

The firm built its own internal AI tools and is also evaluating external platforms. The page presents this as a custom internal capability alongside vendor tools.

Buchanan internally developed and deployed BuchananArtifex, a proprietary AI platform, to provide AI capabilities across the firm in a secure and cost-effective manner. The firm says the governed approach helps it manage legal work with centralized control and oversight.

The firm had already built some of its AI adoption oversight internally before Harvey launched Command Center. The internal build was meant to support AI adoption, governance, and higher-value innovation, reducing the need to maintain custom infrastructure.

The firm says it has deployed enterprise-grade AI tools for client work, including secure research and drafting technologies, litigation support tools, and workflow automation. It also held an April 2026 AI-focused hackathon that generated nearly two dozen ideas now being assessed for implementation.

SLW says it uses SLW Sandbox as a secure internal build environment where teams experiment with ideas, prototype solutions, and iterate quickly. The firm frames this as part of its effort to build trusted, secure, responsible AI and workflow tools for its attorneys.

HubSpot’s Legal Operations team formed a cross-functional group of legal and operations stakeholders to evaluate generative AI platforms for its legal workflows. The team selected Harvey to increase productivity and streamline day-to-day legal work without adding new workflows.

The article says the insurer's legal team has made several operational improvements over the past 12 months, including deploying AI tools. No amount or named internal AI program is stated.

The page says legal operations units are being created in the corporate legal departments of Fortune 500 firms. This is described as part of corporate legal departments building AI-powered legal operations functions.

The page says Orrick has pledged its use of AI tools across the organization. It is cited as one of the leading U.S. law firms adopting AI internally.

Kingsley Napley continued rolling out KNavigate with Kalisa, a knowledge platform. KNavigate gives lawyers and staff easier access to trusted knowledge, expertise, and firm policies and procedures, and it has been broadly adopted internally.

Foley launched LearningLab, an on-demand learning platform designed to help clients. It offers CLE credits and practical business programming at no cost for in-house counsel and legal departments.

Ariel Deshe left public defense and began building TrialKit to give criminal defense lawyers better tools for handling massive digital discovery. The goal was to make previously unmanageable review work possible for lawyers and clients who could not afford state-of-the-art discovery technology.

Kirkland & Ellis is deploying Harvey across its global attorney base and has a dedicated internal AI engineering function to build and scale AI applications on top of it. The firm is also recruiting talent with direct Harvey experience, showing an internal build-out of AI capability rather than a one-off pilot.

Hanson Bridgett is rolling out Claude AI across the firm as part of its internal AI adoption, alongside a written AI use policy and enterprise-grade data protections.

The firm is in the early stages of its AI transformation process and is vetting tools, implementing training, and building governance around AI use for its lawyers. Its CIO said the firm introduced partners to generative AI tools and saw immediate recognition of their potential to change legal services.

The firm treats AI as infrastructure and has built proprietary systems to accelerate complex legal workflows across global teams. It rolled out Harvey enterprise-wide and built tools such as ContractMatrix, alongside agentic AI tools for several practice areas.

The firm says it uses internal developed agentic AI across much of its work. The article says it uses AI for intake, trial preparation, expert witnesses, depositions, and demand letters.

The firm says it built its own proprietary AI platform internally. Angel AI analyzes MRI reports, drafts client communications, summarizes case activity, and provides a chat interface for active cases.

The firm developed a list of 'durable dozen' human skills it believes will grow more important in an AI-enabled profession. It is teaching those skills to lawyers through a partnership with Steppenwolf Theater Company.

The firm hired Conor Grennan to train lawyers and business executives on an 'AI Mindset' program. Sheppard said it is one of the first law firms to adopt Grennan's program and will roll the training out more broadly.

Flank says it has a dedicated legal AI alignment team focused on aligning what its agents do to the organisation’s actual needs. The article presents this as an internal operating capability for maintaining and improving its own legal AI systems after deployment.

Barnes & Thornburg announced 38 attorneys across its 26 markets serving as AI practice champions to advance how AI is used in delivering legal services. The firm said it is focusing on putting best-in-class tools in lawyers’ hands and learning through real client matters.

Faegre Drinker formally adopted Harvey AI and Microsoft Copilot firmwide to help attorneys meet client needs more accurately and efficiently. The firm said it wanted to be an AI-led organization and put AI in the hands of everyone at the firm.

Faegre Drinker deployed its own AI platform, Atlas AI, as a sandbox to help attorneys understand how AI could be used in their practices. The firm later adopted Harvey AI and Microsoft Copilot firmwide after testing different models.

Latham & Watkins is seeking multiple AI services attorneys in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. The posting reflects the firm's internal push to add AI capability across offices.

Cooley is envisioning a proprietary AI interface for the firm rather than relying only on outside legal AI tools. The article says the firm could build its own firm-specific tools and train them to fit its needs.

The firm partnered with Josh Kubicki to sponsor a class studying how its lawyers perform tasks and how AI can augment them. Its existing innovation team is also deploying AI throughout the firm.

Meta’s legal department is hiring a director of commercial legal AI to implement AI agents in its contracting process. The role is aimed at delivering efficiency gains internally.

The firm is offering a director of applied AI role as part of its internal AI buildout. The article presents this as another example of firms hiring to strengthen their own capabilities.

The firm is advertising a director of data science and AI engineering role to build a team delivering product-ready AI solutions. This is an internal hiring push to develop AI capability.

The firm is hiring directors for data services and legal innovation/AI. The roles are part of its internal effort to expand AI capability.

The firm launched an Office of AI and Innovation to embed responsible AI, technology, and process innovation across day-to-day operations and long-term strategy. The office is intended to oversee the design, implementation, and governance of AI solutions across legal and business functions.

Mishcon de Reya built deReyAI in-house. The article cites it as part of a broader shift toward firms building AI capability internally.

Clifford Chance built a customized Microsoft-based knowledge platform with embedded AI capabilities for lawyer workflows, including natural-language search, summarization, tagging, and generative answers. The firm says the repository enables AI deployment while protecting client confidentiality across matters.

OpenAI hired Jason Boehmig to work on products for the legal industry and also hired a legal evaluations specialist. The piece says the company is staffing up to assess and build legal capabilities for its own business and future legal offerings.

OpenAI is collaborating with the firm to roll out ChatGPT Enterprise to every attorney and integrate its large language models deeper into the firm's own tools. The article presents this as the firm's internal adoption of AI to support legal work.

Workday's legal department is in the process of building toward an AI-first ecosystem. The article says it is developing persona-based AI agents, a unified data layer, and an agentic front door to route matters autonomously before they reach a human lawyer.

A conveyancing firm has developed a concept for an AI tool that analyses sales packs from residential property transactions. The page describes a sandbox test to evaluate the tool, but it does not name the firm or state any spending commitment.

A large law firm is working with a LawTech company to develop an in-house AI tool for conveyancing and family law. The page says it is using client data to improve efficiency and consistency, but it does not name the firm or give a budget.

Garfield.Law Ltd is an AI-driven law firm that delivers legal services primarily through AI. The page describes it as building and operating an AI-enabled service under SRA supervision, but it does not state a budget or dollar commitment.

The firm said it is weaving Eve into everything it does, indicating an internal adoption of AI in its legal work. The page frames this as part of a broader shift toward using AI for summarizing and other legal tasks.

Pillsbury appointed Oz Benamram as its Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, creating a dedicated internal AI leadership role. The firm says this is part of investing in the people, technology, and governance needed to advance responsible AI innovation across the firm.

Pillsbury hired Oz Benamram as its first chief artificial intelligence officer and is building a team to expand the firm’s use of AI. The firm says the goal is to make AI permeate throughout the firm and support client work.

Dymocks’ legal team is described as having embraced legal AI, and the article refers to organisations that have invested in developing their own internal AI tool for specific use cases. No budget, date, or named internal program is given.

The Adecco Group says it has been at the forefront of deploying this technology across its Legal and Compliance teams. The page says Harvey is helping simplify day-to-day tasks and provide actionable insights for faster decision making.

In Singapore, Baker McKenzie attorneys used Microsoft’s Copilot AI in a pro bono project to save time uncovering children’s rights laws and handling sensitive information. The page says AI reduced potentially weeks of work, though verification was still needed.

Linklaters Asia attorneys helped the Hong Kong-based labor rights group Migrasia build and use the AI-based chatbot PoBot. The page frames this as part of the firm’s pro bono AI use to help process client questions and requests.

Honigman says its Practice Innovation team consistently invests in innovative legal technology tools, including artificial intelligence, to enhance client service delivery and streamline workflows. Its dedicated AI On Demand team supports integration of AI into client service delivery and the creation of custom AI solutions tailored to client needs.

The page says Bind was built as an AI-native contract management platform. That is an internal product-building effort, not a funding round into a startup.

Latham & Watkins established a cross-practice Generative AI Task Force and has deployed Harvey and Microsoft 365 Copilot across the firm. The article says the firm uses this structure to govern vendor approval, use-case authorization, and mandatory AI training for attorneys.

The article says the author invested in Eve and that the thesis was that plaintiff law, with contingency fees, would be fertile ground for AI. It describes Eve as helping automate large portions of case work so lawyers can take on more cases and increase revenue.

Collins Quarters says it built its own AI legal advisor to give prospective clients an accurate first answer instead of a generic one from an untrained tool. It is overseen by the firm's team across Australia, India and Malaysia and is positioned as an internal capability supporting client intake.

Harvey is building its own internal legal AI capability through Harvey Labs and a small post-training team. The page says the company is packaging synthetic data, lab partnerships and infrastructure into its own served model alongside closed-source models.

Wendell Intelligence is Willkie's enterprise AI platform, providing a unified interface to AI-powered legal and business workflows. Willkie is also integrating a broad suite of LexisNexis AI-powered tools alongside its proprietary Wendell Intelligence platform.

Scott+Scott entered a design partnership intended to produce customized uses of Advocacy AI's platform for the firm, including a potential case identification use case. The article describes this as an internal customization effort rather than a financing round.

Prosus’s in-house legal team has rebuilt workflows around nearly 300 AI agents that handle specific tasks such as EU AI Act compliance scanning and deal-summary generation. The article frames this as a shift from legal advisors to builders of systems underpinning legal work, rather than a pilot layered onto existing processes.

Scott+Scott announced a design partnership with Advocacy AI to gain worldwide access to its platform and custom solutions for the firm's antitrust and securities litigation practice. The goal is to strengthen case memory, context workflows, and the firm's strategic edge in complex litigation.

Jenner & Block is expanding its AI effort beyond leadership roles by hiring multiple associates for a new AI litigation role. The firm says the goal is to give lawyers access to AI tools, reduce hallucination risk, and measure what can and cannot be automated.

Microsoft’s Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs organization is deepening its collaboration with Harvey to use the Harvey AI platform across legal and compliance operations. The page says this is part of Microsoft’s broader effort to bring AI into its operations and improve efficiency at scale.

The firm promoted Roger Maeda to its first chief artificial intelligence officer to develop, evaluate and implement AI-powered tools that support client work. The role was created because the firm says AI is reshaping how it delivers legal services.

Wilson Sonsini built a proprietary AI platform that embeds decades of the firm's legal expertise into custom agentic workflows. The firm is using it to offer fixed-fee commercial contracting.

Morgan & Morgan established its first AI leadership role and hired a longtime Amazon engineer to lead the firm's AI efforts. The article says the hire will oversee the firm's AI work, but it gives no dollar amount.

Paul Hastings named an artificial intelligence executive with more than two decades of experience at McKinsey as its new chief innovation officer, signaling an internal AI push. The page does not state a budget or a specific AI platform being built.

The firm consolidated its ALSP, legal-ops team, e-discovery, and staff attorneys under one umbrella to leverage technology and provide more efficient solutions to client problems. The article describes this as a new internal structure with over 200 professionals.

The firm announced its 10th Fuse Incubator cohort, in which it helps companies develop business management and legal tech solutions in return for access to the participants’ services. The cohort focuses on legal and financial technology.

Pillsbury announced the hiring of a chief artificial intelligence officer, signaling an internal push to build out AI leadership and capability at the firm. The article says the hire is the former chief knowledge and innovation officer at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.

Amazon’s legal department said it has put in place very aggressive goals to drive its transformation efforts by attacking AI adoption. Kathy Sheehan said the most successful AI transformations combine grassroots experimentation with investment in centralized enterprise-grade solutions.

Khaitan & Co selected Atlas to power the next phase of its AI strategy. The page frames this as the firm choosing an AI platform for internal capability building.

Setfords is spending millions to build its own in-house tech platform. The page does not state a precise dollar figure, only that the firm is investing heavily in internal technology capability.

Barnes & Thornburg says it has embedded AI into how it practices law and delivers client work, using AI for tasks like document review, analysis, drafting, and information synthesis. It also says its AI adoption is grounded in a decade-long investment in legal operations and is supported by internal governance and dedicated AI practice champions.

Reed Smith teamed up with Cornell University to train partners on AI-related management strategy. The program is led by Cornell faculty and is meant to help the firm's partners bolster their AI capabilities.

Shoosmiths joined forces with Microsoft to build its own bespoke AI platform for contract reviews. The firm said the project is part of a multi-million-pound investment in its AI capability and that the proprietary AI is owned by Shoosmiths.

The firm is running a second annual "Shark Tank"-style hackathon for summer associates as part of a broader effort to introduce incoming attorneys to its generative AI-powered tools. A team in the contest used Claude to build an IT diagnostic and troubleshooting tool.

Cooley launched Cooley GO Lab, powered by Legora, for Y Combinator startups. The page frames Cooley’s AI use as part of its internal innovation approach to improve legal work and client service.

Pinsent Masons created a new leadership role to oversee its knowledge strategy and the selection and deployment of legal generative AI tools. The firm says the position is intended to help its adoption of generative AI enhance client service, support long-term growth, and provide a competitive advantage.

AgiLawyer says it is growing and has hired a Head of Commercial Development and an AI & Legal Tech Engineer. This is an internal investment in AI-related team capacity to support its mission.

Clio acquired Jurisage to strengthen its ability to build jurisdiction-specific AI products and to accelerate the rollout of its AI platform, Clio Work, in Canada. The deal is intended to give Clio a stronger Canadian legal data foundation for AI across research, drafting, client service, and matter management.

Wolters Kluwer Legal announced a collaboration with Legora on US regulatory content. The page gives no budget figure, but it is an internal product/content integration effort.

A San Francisco-based AI-native law firm founded in 2025. It leverages enterprise AI tools to automate routine parts of IP work so its attorneys can focus on more strategic portfolio decisions and provide subscription-based billing.

Bloomberg Industry Group announced it acquired Regology to expand its AI-driven regulatory intelligence and help organizations navigate regulatory change faster. The acquisition combines Regology’s AI platform with Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Tax, and Bloomberg Government.

LawVu announced the launch of LawVu LegalOS, an AI-powered workflow platform for in-house teams. The platform includes AI-powered drafting, triage, and a workflow builder to help teams automate workflows and use historical data.

OpenAI formally launched a dedicated legal industry vertical and appointed Ironclad co-founder Jason Boehmig to lead it. The move signals OpenAI’s intent to compete more directly for legal AI market share and build industry-specific workflows and enterprise solutions.

Thomson Reuters’ general counsel’s office and the Thomson Reuters Institute are working together on GCO 2030 to envision how their corporate legal function can transform with AI by 2030. The article says their own legal team is on this journey and that they are moving from individual AI adoption toward a structured transformation.

Linklaters established a team of three lawyers and three data scientists to build customized AI workflows and tools for clients, including tasks that off-the-shelf tools cannot deliver. The team is intended to improve client services and create new sources of revenue.

Foley is expanding its AI capabilities by combining internally developed technology with enterprise AI platforms and rolling out firmwide tools to improve client service, efficiency, and secure AI use in legal workflows. FoleyChat is an in-house AI assistant used to support day-to-day work across the firm.

Foley & Lardner is rolling out Harvey firmwide after a successful pilot and evaluation. The firm says the deployment is meant to help lawyers work more efficiently and improve operations while keeping human judgment central.

Littler announced firmwide adoption of AltaClaro’s AI-powered DepoSim to enhance litigation readiness and deposition preparation across its practices. The firm says the adoption reflects its continued investment in technology platforms that improve consistency, quality, and efficiency in litigation practice.

The firm announced a global rollout of the Legora legal AI platform across its six global practice groups. It is using the software for document review, data extraction, comparison, search, editing, drafting, redlining, and checklist preparation, while also continuing to grow its applied AI practice.

B&D Lawyers launched an Innovation Delivery Team to move innovation from concept to execution, including an internal AI hackathon to build AI-driven solutions tailored to the firm’s environmental practice and operations. The firm says it is actively building its AI capabilities to improve client service and internal workflows.

Carta says it acquired Avantia Law to build Carta Law, an AI-native legal services offering for private equity and venture capital firms. The company says it will combine legal services, software, and compliance on one platform and continue integrating the products over the next couple of months.

Burges Salmon entered a partnership with Wexler to support litigation workflows. The page presents this as a firm-level AI support arrangement.

Debevoise is leveraging a robust internal AI program and internal AI teams to modernize how it designs and delivers client services. The firm is pairing this internal effort with its client AI advisory work to navigate the AI era.

Darrow launched a platform for law firms to identify, vet, and manage litigation like a portfolio, using AI agents to surface legal risk, evaluate cases, and track matters on a single dashboard. The company describes itself as an "AI Lab for Legal Risk" and says the platform is the next step in that mission.

Varnum says its AI Task Force advises the firm on optimal usage of AI, and that this work led to the firm’s adoption of Harvey. The firm also says it uses AI tools extensively in its own practice.

Akin made a firmwide rollout of NetDocuments' advanced AI suite, embedding AI across its global document management system and operations. The article frames this as a decisive commitment to enterprise AI execution to improve efficiency, document review, research, and client service.

Akin expanded its use of AI across the firm by rolling out NetDocuments' ndMAX generative AI suite firmwide. The project was done to keep AI tools inside the document management system rather than moving documents into external tools.

The firm appointed a chief innovation officer to lead its AI and legal technology initiatives and knowledge management efforts. The move is described as a deliberate investment in capabilities that help lawyers deliver service and results in complex matters.

Perkins Coie’s London office is beta testing training simulations with generative AI avatars. The effort is meant to provide a safe space for legal professionals to fail and learn while building soft skills.

Harvey announced the release of more than 500 use case-specific legal AI agents and a self-service Agent Builder that lets customers customize those agents to fit their needs. The launch is in early access and is being rolled out to additional customers over the following months.

K&L Gates appointed Jake Bernstein to a newly created Global AI and Innovation Partner role to lead the firm's global AI strategy, governance, and innovation operations. The firm says the role formalizes AI leadership under one practicing partner as it prepares for agentic AI deployment.

Slaughter and May is rolling out Harvey’s AI platform firmwide across all practice areas to support lawyers on multi-jurisdictional matters including M&A, due diligence, regulatory research, and document analysis. The firm says the adoption is part of enhancing client service and is paired with an investment in its people to supervise AI.

Spellbook partnered with iManage to launch a new document integration. The page describes this as an internal product integration supporting legal AI workflows.

Freshfields is collaborating with Anthropic on a multi-year agreement to accelerate AI co-innovation and firm-wide adoption. The firm is deploying Claude globally and co-developing legal-focused AI applications and agentic workflows to improve legal services and internal workflows.

Hogan Lovells is part of the launch of the Global Legal Tech Alliance, a law-firm-led platform aimed at developing and deploying artificial intelligence to reshape legal services. The alliance is intended to help member firms address AI and legal technology challenges faster and create shared standards, solutions, and training resources.

Litera introduced an AI agent embedded in its Office & Dragons workspace to automate transactional document workflows across entire document sets from plain-language instructions. The page frames it as a way to move beyond information-surfacing tools and toward autonomous execution in deal work.

A solicitor and coder personally designed and built an AI adversary to stress-test legal arguments before court. She says it helps lawyers challenge their own thinking and prepare stronger cases.

The firm uses AI software to help draft documents and manage deadlines, and it also builds its own AI tools. The article frames this as part of a small law firm model aimed at cost-effective legal advice.

Freshfields integrated Google’s Gemini models across multiple bespoke legal solutions developed by the Freshfields Lab, including Dynamic Due Diligence (D3), a Case Management Platform, a Multi-jurisdictional Insights Platform, and its proprietary general AI platform. The firm also rolled out NotebookLM Enterprise and Google Workspace with Gemini as part of its internal AI adoption.

Mayer Brown launched a firmwide GenAI training curriculum to equip all lawyers with advanced AI skills and improve responsible use of generative AI in client work. The firm says the program is intended to amplify lawyer capabilities and help teams deliver greater client value while using the technology safely.

Sullivan & Cromwell says its Digital Infrastructure Practice, launched in 2025, brings together lawyers across disciplines to advise on AI-driven investments and data center development. The page describes this as part of the firm’s continued investment in talent and integrated client service.

Littler appointed its first Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer to lead firmwide AI strategy, governance, responsible adoption, and development of AI-enabled capabilities across the platform. The firm says the role will help align AI and technology investments with strategic priorities and strengthen client service at scale.

Goodwin Procter has launched Propel, a firmwide AI training initiative designed to use AI across practice groups and workflows. The goal is to improve client service efficiency and speed, with possible implications for rate structure.

The firm said private equity backing has helped it accelerate its plans and enabled it to spend meaningfully on AI, data and technology rather than only experimenting at the margins. It uses AI tools from Microsoft Copilot and Legora for tasks including cybersecurity incident response, contract review and corporate due diligence.

Salesforce says it is building an AI-native, trust-first, agentic legal function. The post frames this as part of its own internal transformation to improve how it operates, governs technology, and partners with outside counsel.

Akin expanded its embedded AI deployment firmwide inside its document management system, bringing AI to more than 900 lawyers and over 65 million documents. The firm says the goal is to improve search, precedent discovery, document review, and knowledge reuse while maintaining security and confidentiality.

Harvey hired Keith Enright, formerly co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s AI practice group and a former Google privacy chief, as chief strategy officer. The move is meant to strengthen Harvey’s engagement with the judiciary, bar associations, legal educators and policymakers as it scales.

The firm has deployed Harvey across the firm in a firmwide rollout to strengthen legal services and support lawyers and professional teams with generative AI. The announcement says McCann FitzGerald views this as an investment in generative AI driven by client service and professional standards.

McCann FitzGerald said it is the first law firm in Ireland to deploy firmwide Harvey AI. The rollout gives every lawyer and professional across the firm access to the tool to deepen analysis, expedite insights, and streamline legal workflows.

K&L Gates received ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification for its Artificial Intelligence Management System and says the certification reflects its commitment to incorporating accountability into innovation. The firm set up a cross-disciplinary AI Solutions Group in 2023 and built a governance framework for responsible AI deployment across its global platform.

The firm uses an AI-enabled solution built with Opus 2’s platform to win new business and support deal work outside litigation. Its M&A team demonstrated the tool live to a client, leading the client to choose the firm.

The firm partnered with Opus 2 to deliver a customized client portal that centralizes case materials, an events calendar, and visual insights. It has also used Opus 2’s AI to accelerate analysis of expert reports and transcripts and improve client collaboration.

Legal Paradox says it rebuilt its production processes around an AI-native architecture and develops Juridicon using Claude Code on Anthropic's commercial API. It runs client matters on its own AWS infrastructure with encrypted, hardware-isolated data handling.

Husch Blackwell has rolled out Legora across the firm to support legal workflows, including document review, legal research, and drafting. It will also deploy Legora’s Workflows and expand client portal capabilities through the platform.

McMillan announced firmwide adoption of Legora, an AI platform built specifically for legal professionals, so all team members and business professionals can learn and use the technology to support the firm’s competitiveness. The article says the firm piloted several tools and chose Legora after usage accelerated during the trial.

Gowling WLG Canada ran a 12-week firm-wide GenAI pilot with more than 300 lawyers and business services professionals to test how the technology could support legal work without compromising quality, professional judgment, or client trust. The firm says it has since been deploying GenAI solutions in targeted practice and business areas.

Hugh James is expanding its firm-wide investment in responsible generative AI capability by securing 500 places on King’s College London’s AI Literacy for Law course. The programme is designed to build practical AI understanding across lawyers and business services teams, with governance, risk and regulatory guidance.

Intapp announced plans for a strategic partnership with Harvey on governed legal AI. The page describes this as a deployment-focused collaboration.

Pinsent Masons announced a firmwide strategic partnership with Legora after an extensive pilot, and will roll the AI platform out globally across its teams. The firm says it is using the partnership to accelerate AI applications across legal workflows and improve client experience.

Corrs Chambers Westgarth rolled out the Harvey AI legal platform firmwide across all practice areas to support faster document review, summarisation, drafting, and legal research. The firm said it also invested in training and change management to ensure responsible use of AI.

Thomson Reuters is positioning CoCounsel Legal as professional-grade AI that brings together AI, trusted content, and expert insights for legal work. The page describes it as part of the shift toward GenAI-powered legal tools, but it does not state a dollar commitment on this page.

Eversheds Sutherland agreed a strategic partnership with Harvey as its GenAI legal assistant and is rolling it out first to an initial cohort of 350 lawyers, with a full rollout across the business to follow. The firm says the move fits its new global strategy and is intended to embed AI for speed, efficiency, and client value.

Thomson Reuters is leading the launch of the Trust in AI Alliance and says it is actively developing solutions to address billing and value-measurement challenges. It also says it is looking to integrate its in-house counsel expense software into its products and has that work on its 2026 roadmap.

Stinson announced firmwide adoption of Harvey, an advanced generative AI platform, to streamline time-intensive legal work and enhance client service and collaboration. The firm said the integration is a deliberate, long-term investment in embedding AI into operations.

The firm says it is making substantial investments in both technology and people to provide AI-powered legal services. It also says it has fully embedded AI training into its professional development programmes and is maintaining robust governance for safe, secure AI use.

Relativity stood up Rel Labs as its innovation hub and investment arm for legal AI startups to expand what its community can accomplish with its cloud-native platform. The page does not state a dollar amount for this internal investment arm.

Eversheds Sutherland’s international arm has signed up for Harvey, with an initial rollout to 350 lawyers and a full launch planned for May. The firm says it is treating 2026 as its 'Year of AI' and wants to embed generative AI more deeply into its client offering.

The firm said it reached record levels of firmwide AI investment in 2025, anchored by its proprietary AI platform Athena. Athena is being used to streamline workflows, reduce routine work, and support faster, more informed decision-making, with the firm also positioning itself to integrate agentic AI into critical practice and administrative workflows.

Harneys is rolling out Harvey across all of its offices and to all employees worldwide after an in-depth selection process. The firm says Harvey is an essential part of its overall AI strategy and will help equip people with better tools and training.