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What law firms and legal teams are investing to build AI in-house: budgets, internal platforms, AI groups, hires, and dedicated funds. Largest committed first.
Goodwin Procter announced it will spend about $25 million annually to buy and build its own AI capabilities, including a custom venture financing tool.
Eltemate, Hogan Lovells' tech entity, has built about 10 internal legal AI tools, including systems for litigation and regulatory tracking.
Simmons & Simmons acquired legal engineering business Wavelength to establish an in-house data science team and build internal legal tools.
Cleary Gottlieb acquired Springbok AI to bring ten data scientists in-house and develop internal AI tools to power firm workflows.
Linklaters created a dedicated team of twenty lawyers who focus exclusively on artificial intelligence.
Fisher Phillips recruited Pritesh Patel from Walmart for an AI and data-focused role.
Husch Blackwell hired Michael Yang from Adobe for an AI and data-focused role.
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer has hired Ilona Logvinova as its global chief AI officer to define AI strategy, governance, and client-facing AI-enabled offerings.
White & Case has made a strategic investment into Clauze, a Saudi-based legal AI platform.
Jones Day hired partner Alexander H. Southwell in its Cybersecurity, Privacy & Data Protection practice to handle AI governance, digital assets, regulatory investigations, and cyber incident response.
Practus LLP, along with its back-office provider Auxana, is deploying Intapp's connected AI solutions including Intapp Time and Intapp DealCloud with Celeste to streamline firm operations and enhance client relationships.
Rocket Lawyer is utilizing AI to accelerate legal protection accessibility by pairing AI-native experiences with its network of licensed attorneys. The initiative integrates smart AI solutions into legal workflows to modernize legal service delivery for small businesses and families.
DLA Piper has deployed a proprietary legal reasoning engine co-developed with Microsoft and OpenAI to analyze thousands of pages of corporate agreements in seconds.
Legal technology vendor Align is expanding its product capabilities by building Align Research, an agentic AI-based legal research platform designed to retrieve US case law without hallucinations.
Intelligent AF acquired TechnoCat LLC to build Amplified AF, forming part of an AI-fluency ecosystem for the legal industry that integrates learning, community, career placement, and media capabilities.
Casepoint launched two AI agents for document review, including a Relevance Determination agent and an Issue Coding agent. The legal tech vendor is also developing future AI agents focused on redaction and identifying PII.
The U.S. Department of Justice is exploring a potential pilot of an AI legal assistant platform for 20 to 30 government users to handle multi-step legal tasks autonomously.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher collaborated with OpenAI to invest in and deploy proprietary AI capabilities internally.
Kyra Law is a UK-based law firm pursuing a technology-enabled model to deliver efficiency savings to clients.
Merrill was launched to pursue high-volume litigation defence using experienced lawyers integrated with AI capabilities.
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Commitments are compiled by our agents from public announcements and reviewed by a human. Treat them as a directional read on how the industry is investing, not audited figures.
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