Corporate AI investment

Honigman says its Practice Innovation team consistently invests in innovative legal technology tools, including artificial intelligence, to enhance client service delivery and streamline workflows. Its dedicated AI On Demand team supports integration of AI into client service delivery and the creation of custom AI solutions tailored to client needs.

The page says Bind was built as an AI-native contract management platform. That is an internal product-building effort, not a funding round into a startup.

Latham & Watkins established a cross-practice Generative AI Task Force and has deployed Harvey and Microsoft 365 Copilot across the firm. The article says the firm uses this structure to govern vendor approval, use-case authorization, and mandatory AI training for attorneys.

The article says the author invested in Eve and that the thesis was that plaintiff law, with contingency fees, would be fertile ground for AI. It describes Eve as helping automate large portions of case work so lawyers can take on more cases and increase revenue.

Collins Quarters says it built its own AI legal advisor to give prospective clients an accurate first answer instead of a generic one from an untrained tool. It is overseen by the firm's team across Australia, India and Malaysia and is positioned as an internal capability supporting client intake.

Harvey is building its own internal legal AI capability through Harvey Labs and a small post-training team. The page says the company is packaging synthetic data, lab partnerships and infrastructure into its own served model alongside closed-source models.

Mintz has appointed John Koss as its first Chief Innovation & AI Officer to lead the firm's innovation strategy, AI investments, and technology initiatives, demonstrating a commitment to responsible AI adoption and practical innovation in legal services.

Sheppard LLP hired former NYU Stern chief AI architect Conor Grennan to deliver his 'AI Mindset' program to firm leaders and associates.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher built its own in-house AI orchestration platform called Wendell Intelligence and integrated it with Lexis+ with Protégé APIs to power grounded, automated legal workflows firmwide.

Scott+Scott entered a design partnership intended to produce customized uses of Advocacy AI's platform for the firm, including a potential case identification use case. The article describes this as an internal customization effort rather than a financing round.

Jenner & Block is expanding its AI effort beyond leadership roles by hiring multiple associates for a new AI litigation role. The firm says the goal is to give lawyers access to AI tools, reduce hallucination risk, and measure what can and cannot be automated.

Watts Law Firm has launched an Intelligent Case Qualification Platform, representing a firm-wide commitment to AI-enabled legal practice to automate document-intensive case qualification and enhance legal advocacy.

Spellbook expanded its AI-powered contract review, drafting, and research platform by introducing Spellbook for Google Docs.

Microsoft’s Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs organization is deepening its collaboration with Harvey to use the Harvey AI platform across legal and compliance operations. The page says this is part of Microsoft’s broader effort to bring AI into its operations and improve efficiency at scale.

Entegrata appointed Andrew Baker as Chief AI & Data Strategy Officer to lead its AI-enablement product line. Baker will own Entegrata's AI roadmap across engineering, product, and customer experience to help law firms build AI-ready data layers.

Willkie announced a collaboration with OpenAI to accelerate the development and deployment of proprietary AI platforms across its legal and business operations, alongside a firmwide rollout of ChatGPT Enterprise.

The firm promoted Roger Maeda to its first chief artificial intelligence officer to develop, evaluate and implement AI-powered tools that support client work. The role was created because the firm says AI is reshaping how it delivers legal services.

Epiq built and embedded Claude into agentic AI workflows for eDiscovery across its workspace platform.

Klinedinst PC has expanded its internal AI capabilities through the firmwide adoption of StrongSuit to streamline document-intensive litigation workflows and legal research.

Clark Hill expanded its enterprise adoption of Thomson Reuters CoCounsel firmwide.