Corporate AI investment

Transatlantic law firm Winston Taylor has introduced Ctrl AI into its employment dispute resolution work to support the handling of claims, complaints, and disputes across its employment practice.

Sidley Austin's London office has introduced a mandatory 'AI Knowledge Lab' seat into its training contract rotation effective September 2026. Trainees will work on legal assignments, evaluate AI output, and help develop firm-wide AI tools.

Thomson Reuters rebuilt CoCounsel Legal from the ground up using Anthropic's Claude reasoning technology and its own proprietary model, Thomson, grounded in legal content from Westlaw and Practical Law.

ARNECKE SIBETH DABELSTEIN expanded its internal AI strategy by deploying Harvey.

Farrer & Co appointed former Macfarlanes lawyer Oliver Jeffcott as head of innovation and AI counsel to drive its AI strategy and adoption.

BARBRI acquired Lega, a platform designed to help law students, legal professionals, and law firms develop real-world legal AI fluency.

Covington & Burling established a strategic AI leadership role to guide the firm's AI deployment.

Reed Smith created strategic AI leadership roles and hired AI specialists to advance legal practice technology.

McDermott Will & Emery appointed Christopher Cyrus as its first Director of AI Innovation. The role is based in Austin, Texas, to lead firm-wide AI initiatives.

Akin Gump appointed Jeff Westcott as Director of Practice Technology and AI Innovation in London. He will focus on leveraging AI and emerging technologies to improve client service.

Wilson Sonsini signed a paid commercial license for LexText, a litigation drafting and analysis platform. The deployment spans the firm's litigation practice across 17 offices and over 250 litigators.

Greenberg Traurig collaborated with Thomson Reuters over four years to build and deploy the next generation of CoCounsel Legal. The firm built a governance framework to ethically integrate agentic AI into legal workflows with human oversight.

Thomson Reuters strategically acquired a team of expert scientists to build its proprietary legal AI model, Thomson 1.0, and rebuild its CoCounsel platform. The initiative focuses on independent, economical, and domain-specific AI models.

A&O Shearman has developed an advanced legal AI system in partnership with legal tech startup Harvey. The system handles high-value legal analysis in areas such as antitrust, cybersecurity, loan review, and fund formation.

Bird & Bird established a deep partnership to adopt and collaborate on AI capabilities.

Blackstone's in-house legal team is actively collaborating to shape Norm Law's AI-native offering and help build AI agents around specific regulatory regimes and in-house policies.

Scott+Scott entered into a design partnership with litigation startup Advocacy AI to develop customized uses of the platform for the firm.

Harvey acquired San Francisco-based Guardrails AI, a security platform for AI agents, integrating its co-founders and team into Harvey's product and engineering organisation.

Skadden has joined Relativity's Advanced Access program to test, evaluate, and provide input on Relativity claiR, a conversational AI experience for lawyers. The law firm is adopting and integrating the new AI offering into its suite of technology tools to streamline operations and enhance legal efficiency.

SMU Yong Pung How School of Law joined Legora's Legal AI Scholars Program to integrate AI legal tools into its curriculum. Law faculty and students will receive platform licenses and training for legal research, document review, and drafting.