Corporate AI investment

Amazon launched Amazon Quick specifically tailored to execute legal tasks.

Elevate acquired legal project management platform Lupl to bolster its software business and advance its vision for automating legal work with agentic AI capabilities.

Kirkland & Ellis entered into a multi-year strategic partnership with Syllo to implement unified litigation, research, and analysis AI capabilities.

Clark Hill expanded its artificial intelligence platform through a firm-wide enterprise agreement with Thomson Reuters for advanced legal AI.

Willkie collaborated with OpenAI to accelerate AI deployment across the firm's legal and business operations, including a firm-wide rollout.

Legora acquired London-based Wexler to integrate its fact intelligence platform and engineering team into Legora's legal AI system.

Debevoise is making continued investments in building one of the legal market's most comprehensive AI capabilities.

Okta's legal department hired a dedicated AI lead to drive and manage legal AI adoption across the team.

Kinstellar selected Laurel AI to deploy legal AI tools as part of its firmwide commercial excellence and digital transformation drive.

Avvoka partnered with Harvey and launched 'Curate' to turn law firm transaction documents into templates.

Epiq Advisory formed a strategic partnership with Legora to combine its implementation and governance services with Legora's AI technology. The goal is to help corporate legal departments and law firms scale AI across legal workflows.

Foley & Lardner LLP has hired James McKenna as Chief Information Officer to lead firmwide technology strategy and operations, including artificial intelligence and emerging technologies. He will work across the firm to enhance technology platforms and drive strategic priorities.

iManage and Thomson Reuters expanded their strategic partnership to integrate Thomson Reuters AI capabilities and content with governed knowledge in the iManage platform. The integration supports Model Context Protocol (MCP) to allow TR AI tools to reason over iManage documents while maintaining security controls.

Thomson Reuters expanded its strategic partnership with iManage to connect its AI tools, including CoCounsel Legal, with governed organizational knowledge in iManage. The collaboration delivers MCP support to allow AI tools to draw context from iManage document repositories.

Bloomberg Law has built a new AI-powered experience featuring BLAW AI, Workspaces, AI agents, and Watchlists to help legal professionals move faster from analysis to action. The platform also announced an integration with Anthropic's Claude using the Model Context Protocol.

Wisner Baum established an AI committee to develop firm policies and best practices for the responsible use of AI in litigation.

Debevoise built an internal AI program comprising an Applied AI team, an AI-powered client portal named STAAR, and a firmwide lawyer training program called the AI Decathlon.

ClearyX built and launched proprietary in-house products, including CX+Transact and CX+Insights, leveraging LLMs for AI-powered transactional diligence and legal operations.

Cleary Gottlieb established ClearyX as an independently operated subsidiary to bring legal professionals and software engineers together to build proprietary AI-powered tools and legal technologies in-house.

Watts Law Firm is investing a seven-figure amount to build proprietary AI tools in partnership with Monks Technology Services for personal injury and mass tort cases.