Corporate AI investment

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman is building and leading a team dedicated to expanding the firm’s use of data, analytics, and artificial intelligence for the benefit of its clients.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett's Knowledge & Innovation (K&I) team is responsible for driving the firm’s strategic use of knowledge management, legal technology, digital products, AI, and innovation to enhance efficiency, client service, and practice development. Key initiatives include the integration of artificial intelligence and automation solutions.

Sullivan & Cromwell has developed clear AI playbooks to allow them to use AI tools responsibly while preserving their high-touch, partner-led service. The firm expects AI's role in their practice to continue growing.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore is hiring an AI Enablement Analyst to help provide analysis and own AI applications being deployed within the Firm, assisting the firm to maximize value from significant AI investments.

Mama Bear Law has developed a proprietary AI assistant called "Mama" to gather information from families, organize medical records, build chronologies, and identify areas for legal review in cases of birth injuries, medical malpractice, nursing home neglect, and wrongful death.

Axinn hired Rachael Philbin as chief innovation officer to maximize the firm's usage of artificial intelligence, with a focus on developing new AI applications, tools, and workflows bespoke to the antitrust practice.

Ropes & Gray has developed a proprietary AI tool that can predict how a judge might view a certain argument in a case by generating a predictive analysis based on the judge's prior decisions.

Ropes & Gray launched an AI training program for associates, including hands-on "tech jams" and legal AI platform training for all 170+ summer associates, a first in the industry.

Cadwalader is proactively adopting technology and weaving AI into day-to-day workflows to increase efficiency while maintaining quality. Their innovation and leadership officer is leading this effort with cautious implementation and guardrails.

vLex has been at the forefront of legal AI innovation since 2000, combining cutting-edge AI with its extensive legal database to create the Vincent platform, which is built on over one billion editorially enriched legal documents.

Horizons & Co, a UAE firm, chose to build its own AI platform rather than purchase existing legal AI tools, with aspirations to bring their home-grown platform to market.

Morgan Lewis has a chief AI officer and corporate partners who are focused on an AI strategy that emphasizes the structures needed to make AI tools effective for clients.

A&O Shearman has appointed Germaine Gurr to its AI steering committee, which aims to further drive the use of AI in delivering legal services.

Norm Law employs over 35 lawyers as 'legal engineers' who convert legal workflows into AI-driven agents using Norm Ai's no-code platform.

TechTack built Magic Circle, a domain-AI product specifically for law firms and professional services teams to address issues like AI hallucination and data confidentiality in legal work.

Faegre Drinker has moved from AI pilot programs to full enterprise-wide deployment of Microsoft Copilot and the legal-specific AI platform Harvey to its entire workforce.

Relativity is extending Model Context Protocol integrations to allow legal data and technology teams to handle administrative work from AI assistants while substantive work runs in RelativityOne.

Morgan & Morgan lawyers were sanctioned for a motion containing fabricated citations generated by the firm’s in-house AI platform, indicating an internal investment in building such a platform.

DeepJudge introduced the Agent Handoff Protocol (AHP), an open protocol designed to enable AI tools to transfer context, objectives, and history without losing work when switching platforms.

DISCO developed and made generally available its Advanced Research capability, an agentic AI tool for multi-step fact investigation and evidence analysis.