Corporate AI investment

The firm says it is equipping its teams with tools powered by generative AI and other next-generation technologies, along with tailored training and collaborative frameworks. It frames this as an investment to help teams work smarter, more efficiently, and more creatively.

The firm created a centralized AI Studio for training and governance and launched a gamified AI-user certification process. It is part of the firm’s AI strategy and was recognized for innovation and compliance efforts.

Valor led the seed investment in Visalaw in 2025. The page says Valor backed the company because it was built inside the problem and applies AI to immigration law workflows.

The firm is expected to invest more heavily in building its own bespoke technology solutions to complement what it buys from external vendors, including client-facing offerings. The article frames this as part of a broader shift toward more embedded AI-enhanced legal delivery.

The firm is hiring non-lawyer AI technicians to develop internal workflows and tools, rather than relying on off-the-shelf solutions. Those staff are helping build custom AI implementations to improve patent prior art searches, contract review, and research capabilities while managing security and confidentiality risks.

Sidley’s leadership prioritized building the firm’s knowledge management capabilities by investing in hardware and software so the firm could better understand what it knew, who knew it, and where to find it. The goal was to make the firm a collective intelligence.

Gusto's legal team uses AI to monitor thousands of rules across employment law, benefits, and corporate compliance. The system is trained on Gusto's business and helps route rule-change summaries to the right lawyers so they can spend more time advising the business.

The firm’s teams developed their own custom workflows for transactional work. The page says these workflows help streamline due diligence reviews and save time on diligence reviews for unstructured data rooms.

Thomson Reuters bought Noetica and said it will connect it to its broader CoCounsel offering. The article says TR is trying to create new value in its transactional add-ons and become a major platform for deal work.

Webber Wentzel spun out its AI and innovation arm, Fusion, as an autonomous subsidiary to broaden its mandate and optimise AI use for clients. The initiative grew out of the firm's internal offering and is aimed at delivering AI solutions, playbooks, workflows, and support services.

Bass, Berry & Sims hired Rachel Shields Williams as their Director of AI & Knowledge Management to lead the firm’s efforts to enhance client service and operational performance through innovation and strategic use of technology.

Maiwald entered an enterprise partnership for 2026 with Solve Intelligence to use AI-supported workflows in its patent and legal practice groups.

The Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University established the new AI and Legal Technology Studio to train students, build AI-powered legal applications, and partner with local courts on access-to-justice solutions.

The firm is built to run on Claude AI, using it as core infrastructure across its work. The article describes a configured internal setup with personalisation, shared projects, skills, and Microsoft 365 integration to speed up drafting and review.

HSF Kramer hired Ilona Logvinova as its first global chief AI officer and is running a team of internal 'forward-deployed legal engineers' to embed AI into lawyers' workflows. The firm is using this structure to make AI tools actually get used across the firm.

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer has appointed its first Chief AI Officer and accelerated the adoption of AI including launching Legora firmwide.

Barclays agreed a global deal with Legora to roll out its platform across the lender’s entire in-house legal team. The adoption spans more than 40 countries and is an internal deployment of AI tools for legal work.

K&L Gates became one of the first law firms globally to earn ISO 42001 AI governance certification. The certification indicates its Artificial Intelligence Management System has formal controls around accountability, risk management, ethics, transparency, data protection, and regulatory compliance.

McDermott Will & Emery has publicly acknowledged exploring a management services organization structure that could accept outside investment. The page presents this as part of a broader trend of law firms considering new capital structures.

Cohen & Gresser has publicly acknowledged exploring a management services organization structure that could accept outside investment. The page frames this as a potential way to bring in capital while complying with non-lawyer ownership restrictions.