Corporate AI investment

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 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.

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 & Plimpton has hired Mari Grace and Kendall Howell as counsel to strengthen its artificial intelligence capabilities and expand its AI practice and STAAR advisory platform.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.