Corporate AI investment

Kyle Dingman, a plaintiff-side mass torts lawyer, co-founded DingDuff, a free Claude connector that directly plugs Claude into legal data sources, initially building it for his own practice.

GleanMark developed Markus AI, a chat-based research assistant for legal professionals, which uses USPTO records for its answers and provides verifiable serial and proceeding numbers.

GleanMark built a U.S. trademark research and workflow platform for lawyers that combines free USPTO search with AI-driven clearance analysis, office-action response drafting, automated deadline tracking, and portfolio monitoring.

Kercher Law is building a new firm from the bottom up to integrate AI into every aspect of running a law firm and serving clients, assuming AI exists and leveraging its benefits in everything they do from day one.

Quinn Emanuel built the first dedicated AI practice at a major US firm, the AI & Data Analytics Group.

Wells Fargo launched its first Innovation Center in Menlo Park, California, to develop innovative technology solutions through external partnerships with emerging financial technology companies and other third-party service providers of novel technologies, including AI.

Wells Fargo launched its first proprietary platform for experimenting with internal generative-AI use case solutions, which is a controlled sandbox environment for developing, testing, and refining large-language-model-based solutions.

Ford's legal department has been building and deploying AI-enhanced systems internally for years, and more recently, scalable GenAI workflows, led by an internal legal innovation team.

Tiffany Lee, general counsel of Liquid Death, states that AI tools have delivered massive ROI for her in-house legal team, indicating a concrete internal deployment and reliance on AI.

GC AI, a legal technology company, was founded on the belief that artificial intelligence would work better for corporate legal departments, and they have built a platform used by various corporate functions.

White & Case partnered with Toshiba America and Eudia to create and deploy a custom-built, closed AI platform for internal use during a complex commercial trial to provide summaries, analysis, and assist with urgent questions, aiming to mitigate suboptimal situations and improve efficiency.

Mikal Watts, a mass tort attorney, is creating proprietary AI with the goal of partnering with private equity to sell it to personal injury firms. His plan is to "plug in Watts AI" to streamline processes after investors group firms together.

Clio launched its AI product, Clio Work, in Canada, made possible by its acquisition of the Canadian legal data company Jurisage.

Relativity has launched a beta conversational AI capability specifically for lawyers, demonstrating an internal investment in developing AI features for its legal product.

Elite is focusing on its cloud platform to leverage AI, anticipating its cloud customers to outnumber on-premise users by the end of 2026. This move is driven by the need for modern infrastructure to take advantage of new AI technology.

Winston Taylor hosted its inaugural Practice-Ready Program last week, which focused on AI, indicating an internal investment in training its future lawyers on AI.

Harbor, a legal technology services provider, acquired iTrain, a legal technology training and AI enablement firm, to strengthen user adoption, training, and change management capabilities for law firms.

Entegrata has appointed Andrew Baker as Chief AI and Data Strategy Officer to lead the development of its artificial intelligence enablement strategy for law firms, overseeing its AI roadmap across engineering, product development, and customer experience.

Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced a strategic partnership with Hebbia, expanding its use of Hebbia’s AI-powered Matrix platform across its transactional practices to accelerate diligence, deal execution, and legal analysis at scale.

Goulston & Storrs, which has mature legal process automation practices, is using AI-assisted abstraction in commercial lease review, leading to an increase in fixed-fee revenue and margin.