Corporate AI investment

Altria built an AI legal front door for its legal department, aiming to improve intake, increase visibility, reduce outside counsel spend, and create a foundation for scalable AI in legal. The page says it achieved 80–90% adoption.

The patent firm built a proprietary AI patent tool suite inside its own practice to support drafting, prosecution, portfolio intelligence, and analytics. The page says the tools were developed by practicing patent professionals and used in active attorney workflows to improve efficiency, consistency, quality, and strategic insight.

Axiom provides AI tools together with trained legal talent and technical support for in-house legal teams, positioning the offering as a way to help clients adopt AI contract review and analysis without building the capability internally from scratch. The page says Axiom assessed over 50 tools, selected eight for in-depth review and pilot testing, and manages training and onboarding to deliver immediate value.

The page says the firm has internal innovation labs that build custom AI workflows. No specific budget or date is provided.

The firm uses Harvey AI and has a dedicated AI committee overseeing usage. The page frames this as structured internal governance around AI adoption.

The firm is listed as having Harvey AI plus an internal innovation lab. The page indicates the lab is part of its internal AI activity, but gives no dollar figure.

The firm built its own internal AI tools and is also evaluating external platforms. The page presents this as a custom internal capability alongside vendor tools.

Buchanan internally developed and deployed BuchananArtifex, a proprietary AI platform, to provide AI capabilities across the firm in a secure and cost-effective manner. The firm says the governed approach helps it manage legal work with centralized control and oversight.

The firm had already built some of its AI adoption oversight internally before Harvey launched Command Center. The internal build was meant to support AI adoption, governance, and higher-value innovation, reducing the need to maintain custom infrastructure.

The firm says it has deployed enterprise-grade AI tools for client work, including secure research and drafting technologies, litigation support tools, and workflow automation. It also held an April 2026 AI-focused hackathon that generated nearly two dozen ideas now being assessed for implementation.

SLW says it uses SLW Sandbox as a secure internal build environment where teams experiment with ideas, prototype solutions, and iterate quickly. The firm frames this as part of its effort to build trusted, secure, responsible AI and workflow tools for its attorneys.

HubSpot’s Legal Operations team formed a cross-functional group of legal and operations stakeholders to evaluate generative AI platforms for its legal workflows. The team selected Harvey to increase productivity and streamline day-to-day legal work without adding new workflows.

The article says the insurer's legal team has made several operational improvements over the past 12 months, including deploying AI tools. No amount or named internal AI program is stated.

The page says legal operations units are being created in the corporate legal departments of Fortune 500 firms. This is described as part of corporate legal departments building AI-powered legal operations functions.

Foley launched LearningLab, an on-demand learning platform designed to help clients. It offers CLE credits and practical business programming at no cost for in-house counsel and legal departments.

Ariel Deshe left public defense and began building TrialKit to give criminal defense lawyers better tools for handling massive digital discovery. The goal was to make previously unmanageable review work possible for lawyers and clients who could not afford state-of-the-art discovery technology.

Kirkland & Ellis is deploying Harvey across its global attorney base and has a dedicated internal AI engineering function to build and scale AI applications on top of it. The firm is also recruiting talent with direct Harvey experience, showing an internal build-out of AI capability rather than a one-off pilot.

Hanson Bridgett is rolling out Claude AI across the firm as part of its internal AI adoption, alongside a written AI use policy and enterprise-grade data protections.

The firm is in the early stages of its AI transformation process and is vetting tools, implementing training, and building governance around AI use for its lawyers. Its CIO said the firm introduced partners to generative AI tools and saw immediate recognition of their potential to change legal services.

The firm treats AI as infrastructure and has built proprietary systems to accelerate complex legal workflows across global teams. It rolled out Harvey enterprise-wide and built tools such as ContractMatrix, alongside agentic AI tools for several practice areas.