The Law Firm AI Tracker

BDO Abogados completes Legora rollout — 90%+ adoption, all professionals now AI-native

BDO Abogados (the legal arm of BDO Spain) has completed the firmwide deployment of Legora after an 8-month phased rollout beginning October 2025, led by its Legal Operations department. The platform has achieved over 90% adoption among professionals, with 100% saying they would feel its absence if removed. Used daily for document review, legal research, and drafting, the rollout positions BDO among a growing cluster of Spanish firms on Legora alongside Pérez-Llorca, RocaJunyent, Araoz & Rueda, Andersen, Linklaters, and Toda & Nel-lo.

Shoosmiths launches Project Apollo — proprietary AI contract review built with Microsoft on Azure

Shoosmiths

UK firm Shoosmiths unveiled Project Apollo, a self-developed generative AI contract review platform built over a year with Microsoft support and now deployed firmwide. Running in Microsoft's Azure environment, the tool marks up contracts against a playbook and gold-standard drafting derived from Shoosmiths' dealmakers — explicitly avoiding opaque 'black-box' models. Designed to mirror how a senior associate justifies changes to a partner, every step surfaces its reasoning, creating a real-time learning environment that accelerates development of junior lawyers.

WKB Lawyers deploys Harvey firmwide — Poland's leading independent firm goes AI-first

WKB Lawyers

WKB Lawyers, one of Poland's leading independent law firms with 160+ legal professionals, is deploying Harvey firmwide across all practice areas. Harvey will support contract analysis, due diligence, regulatory compliance, and litigation work. WKB has 40+ practice areas spanning M&A, IP, technology, and financial regulation; the deployment marks a significant step in AI adoption for the Central and Eastern European legal market.

Cooley GO Lab launched with Legora and Y Combinator — client-facing AI workspace for YC startups

Cooley

Cooley, Legora, and Y Combinator jointly launched Cooley GO Lab, an AI-powered workspace for startups, debuting exclusively with YC's Summer 2026 cohort. Built on Legora Portal (Legora's white-labeled workflow platform), the tool lets startups query AI agents about their corporate documents, run contracts against market terms, and access Cooley GO's curated knowledge base of startup forms. The initiative marks a new model of delivering legal intelligence directly into company-building workflows — and a full-circle moment for Legora, itself a YC-backed company.

Maddocks rolls out Harvey enterprise-wide across all lawyers and legal support staff — Australia

Maddocks

Maddocks (Australian law firm, 18 months into its AI program) rolled out Harvey enterprise-wide to all lawyers and legal support staff following a structured pilot across 13 practice teams. Pilot showed 70% of users running queries daily, 88% returning week after week, with strong partner-led adoption. Previously rolled out Microsoft Copilot enterprise-wide in 2025. Key differentiator cited: Harvey Shared Spaces for client collaboration.

Garfield AI wins first court trial — landmark first for AI-assisted litigation globally

Garfield AI — the world's first SRA-regulated AI law firm — won its first court trial at Wandsworth County Court, marking a global landmark for AI-assisted litigation. AI handled all pre-trial document work (correspondence, claim forms, four witness statements, trial bundles). A human barrister provided oral advocacy only. Client paid ~£400 and recovered the full £7,000 disputed amount; opposing side had both solicitor and barrister and lost. Garfield has now started 600+ claims and recovered or resolved over £500,000 for users.

Fish & Richardson launches FishStream AI — proprietary in-house patent prosecution platform

Fish & Richardson

Fish & Richardson launched FishStream AI, a proprietary in-house AI platform specifically for patent prosecution workflows. Built entirely in-house combining firm IP expertise with enterprise-grade AI. Supports office action review, patent application drafting, and responses to Alice framework eligibility challenges. Operates within the firm's secure enterprise environment with attorney control over all final legal analysis.

Holding Redlich partners with Legora — AI deployed across Property and Corporate & Commercial teams

Holding Redlich

Australian national firm Holding Redlich has partnered with Legora to deploy its agentic AI platform across Property and Corporate & Commercial teams, following a pilot with 30+ lawyers that tested M&A due diligence, post-completion transaction management, and real estate use cases. Legora integrates via web browser, Word add-in, and Outlook add-in, fitting into existing workflows. The firm plans to expand to additional practice groups and has established an Innovation Hub to govern AI adoption alongside internal policy and training programs.

Holding Redlich partners with Legora for transactional practice deployment — Australia

National Australian law firm Holding Redlich announced a partnership with Legora to deploy across Property and Corporate & Commercial teams, following a pilot with 30+ lawyers. Covers M&A due diligence, contract review, and drafting. Firm established an Innovation Hub for AI governance.

Luminance unveils Luna Crescent — proprietary vertical AI model for contract intelligence

Luminance unveiled Luna Crescent, the first model in its proprietary vertical AI model series built specifically for contract work. Trained on 220+ million legal documents. Achieves 5% higher accuracy than general-purpose models on contract understanding and generates text nearly 4x faster. Deployed immediately across Luminance's contract intelligence features.

Mayo Wynne Baxter rolls out Harvey AI platform firmwide — UK regional firm

UK firm Mayo Wynne Baxter (part of Ampa Group) announced firmwide rollout of Harvey's AI platform for drafting, summarization, research, and document analysis. Mandatory training and governance frameworks included. Terms of business updated to reflect AI use.

Legance deploys Legora firmwide across all practice areas — first comprehensive legal AI rollout in Italy

Miller Advisory Group

Legance, one of Italy's leading independent law firms (400+ professionals, Milan/Rome/London), completed a firmwide rollout of Legora across all practice areas and seniority levels. Three-month implementation described as the first of its kind in Italy in scope and scale.

Harvey announces development of legal-specific foundation models — open-source benchmarks and law firm workflow training

Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg confirmed PoC studies with law firms to train open-source LLMs encoding individual firm workflows and client-specific patterns. Co-founder Gabe Pereyra elaborated: Harvey is developing a legal foundation model series enabling firms to build and own their own specialized AI. Training uses synthetic and human-derived data pipelines. Benchmarks will be open-sourced.

Legora and Ironclad announce first AI-to-AI integration for in-house legal teams

Legora and Ironclad announced a first-of-its-kind bidirectional AI-to-AI integration. Customers can bring Ironclad contract intelligence into Legora and vice versa. Phased rollout targets in-house legal teams of Ironclad customers.

Crosby launches contract negotiation benchmark and Crosby Intelligence applied AI research arm

AI-native law firm Crosby launched two initiatives: Multi-turn Negotiation Bench (contract negotiation benchmark co-created with micro1) and Crosby Intelligence (applied AI research arm with OpenAI fellowship grants). Crosby has raised $85M+ from Sequoia, Index, Lux, Bain Capital Ventures.

Axiom and Legora mark one-year partnership — published ROI case studies across industries

Axiom and Legora marked one year of partnership with published client results: a global manufacturer cut contract review from one year to five weeks (saving $477K); a Fortune 10 healthcare company saved 70% vs. outside counsel on 344 contracts; a real estate manager saved $500K+ on 2,000 leases. Combined offering pairs Legora AI with Axiom's 14,000+ legal professionals.

Hanson Bridgett deploys Anthropic Claude firmwide — evaluating whether it replaces Harvey and Legora

Hanson Bridgett

San Francisco-based Am Law 200 firm Hanson Bridgett adopted Anthropic's Claude firmwide for 200+ attorneys and professional staff. The firm is using practice area-specific plugins, legal tech integrations (budgeting, pricing, lateral recruitment), and is evaluating whether Claude reduces its need for Harvey and Legora. COO/CFO Laura Long confirmed the deployment.

Thomson Reuters CoCounsel + DeepJudge integration reaches general availability — institutional knowledge meets Westlaw

Thomson Reuters announced general availability of the DeepJudge-CoCounsel integration (partnership originally announced October 2025). Law firms can now access institutional knowledge from DeepJudge alongside Westlaw research and Practical Law in a single CoCounsel experience. No content migration required; existing ethical walls preserved.

Morrison Foerster deploys Legora as core AI technology platform firmwide

Morrison & Foerster

Morrison Foerster announced a strategic partnership with Legora, deploying it as the firm's core AI technology platform firmwide. Chair Eric McCrath and Chief Innovation Officer Chris Bowers emphasized interest in Legora's emerging agentic capabilities for document review, task automation, and custom workflows.

Harvey launches as Microsoft 365 Copilot agent and Copilot Cowork plugin

Harvey launched availability as an agent inside Microsoft 365 Copilot and as a plugin in Copilot Cowork. Legal teams can use Harvey for precedent-aware legal answers, document analysis, research, and Vault retrieval without leaving Word, Outlook, or Teams. Copilot Cowork enables multi-step legal workflow orchestration.

Schenck Price deploys Lexis+ with Protégé AI firmwide — NJ firm cites trust as deciding factor

New Jersey full-service firm Schenck Price deployed Lexis+ with Protégé across the firm. Managing Partner John Ursin cited trust and attorney-client confidentiality as primary drivers. LexisNexis provided onboarding and practice-specific training.

A&O Shearman plans to commercialize proprietary AI tools — sell access to other law firms

A&O Shearman LLP

Bloomberg Law reported that A&O Shearman is planning to commercialize its proprietary AI tools — built primarily for fund formation work — by selling access to other law firms. This represents a deliberate contrast to Kirkland's exclusivity-focused $500M approach. A&O already has a revenue-sharing arrangement with Harvey for agentic AI agents.

Harvey partners with Datasite for M&A deal document integration

Harvey and Datasite integrated their platforms, allowing legal and M&A teams to pull live deal documents from Datasite virtual data rooms directly into Harvey's Assistant, Vault, Workflow Builder, and Word Add-In. Access permissions from Datasite carry over automatically. Targets M&A due diligence workflows.

Latham & Watkins wins Chambers USA 2026 AI Law Firm of the Year — AI embedded in every deal

Latham & Watkins

Latham & Watkins won Chambers USA 2026 Law Firm of the Year in Artificial Intelligence. M&A co-chair Alex Kelly stated AI is now embedded in every deal the firm works on. Internal metrics: AI Academy trained 425+ associates; AI First program completed by 3,100+ staff firmwide. Also named Recorder innovation finalist.

Relativity acquires Gavel — AI document automation and contract review startup

E-discovery platform Relativity acquired Gavel, an AI-native document automation and contract review company that operates within Microsoft Word. The deal connects RelativityOne to work product in Word with full matter context syncing. Relativity's fourth publicly announced acquisition since 2021. Terms not disclosed.

Chiomenti builds proprietary AsKey AI tool — €5M investment over three years with Harvey and McKinsey

Italian law firm Chiomenti disclosed its proprietary AI tool AsKey, built over three years at €5M cost in partnership with Harvey and McKinsey QuantumBlack. Runs on 30 years of firm documents. Use cases include legal research, bond issuance drafting, contract review, and legal opinions. Now used for live legal analysis firmwide.

Clio acquires Jurisage to accelerate legal AI in Canada

Clio acquired Jurisage, a Canadian legal AI and data company, to fill the gap in Canadian legal data coverage left by the vLex acquisition. Jurisage's Compass database covers 470,000+ cases in 40+ courts. Enables planned launch of Clio Work in Canada later in 2026. Full 10-person Jurisage team joins Clio.

SRA authorizes Garfield.Law — first AI-only law firm authorized to practice in England and Wales

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) authorized Garfield.Law Ltd as the first purely AI-based firm to provide regulated legal services in England and Wales. Garfield.Law offers SMEs an AI-powered litigation assistant to recover unpaid debts through the small claims court process. The SRA verified compliance with professional rules including quality checks, client confidentiality, conflict-of-interest safeguards, and hallucination risk management. Named solicitors remain ultimately accountable; the system only advances with client approval.

UK Government launches AI Growth Lab with legal services as first sector — regulatory sandbox for LawTech

The UK Government (DSIT) launched an Advisory AI Growth Lab on June 9, 2026, making legal services the first sector to participate. The lab brings together the Legal Services Board, SRA, Council for Licensed Conveyancers, and ICO to give AI innovators clear guidance on how regulations apply to novel AI applications. Applications for legal services providers and LawTech companies open later in summer 2026. Justice Secretary David Lammy: 'The legal sector contributes over £40bn a year — yet too often it's been held back by analogue systems not fit for the digital age.'

Al Tamimi & Company Partners with Legora for Arabic-Language Legal AI

Al Tamimi & Company

Al Tamimi, the largest firm across MENA (17 offices, 10 countries), partnered with Legora to advance Arabic-language legal AI. Al Tamimi contributed insights to tailor the platform for Arabic-speaking jurisdictions.

Kilpatrick Townsend Launches Kilpatrick Labs AI Innovation Platform

Kilpatrick Townsend

Kilpatrick Townsend launched Kilpatrick Labs with 15+ custom AI tools built on Anthropic's Claude via a proprietary MCP platform connecting 17 enterprise systems. Covers patent/trademark prosecution, litigation monitoring, billing automation, and client apps.

Kirkland & Ellis and Palantir Launch AI-Powered PE Fundraising Platform

Kirkland & Ellis

Kirkland and Palantir co-developed a PE fundraising platform — the first product in Kirkland's $500M AI strategy. Built on senior attorney expertise, it covers the full PE fundraising lifecycle for 1,000+ lawyers in the investment funds practice.

Kirkland & Ellis and Palantir launch PE fund formation AI platform — first product from $500M strategy

Kirkland & Ellis

Kirkland & Ellis and Palantir launched a PE fundraising AI platform co-built on Palantir AIP — the first product from Kirkland's $500M AI strategy. Covers fund documentation, side letters, investor negotiations, LP compliance. Scales Kirkland's institutional knowledge to 1,000+ investment fund lawyers firmwide.

Kilpatrick Townsend launches Kilpatrick Labs — 15+ custom AI tools on Anthropic Claude with MCP platform

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton launched Kilpatrick Labs with 15+ custom AI tools built on Anthropic Claude with a proprietary MCP platform connecting 17 enterprise systems. Covers patent/trademark prosecution, litigation monitoring, and billing automation. Dedicated team of practicing lawyers and engineers.

Dua Associates rolls out Legora across all practice groups and 8 offices — India expansion

Dua Associates

Dua Associates deployed Legora across all practice groups and 8 offices — the third Indian firm to move from evaluation to enterprise deployment (after Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and Chandhiok & Mahajan). Uses Legora for legal research, document review, drafting, and matter-specific agentic workflows.

OpenAI hires Ironclad CEO Jason Boehmig to lead dedicated legal AI vertical

OpenAI hired Ironclad co-founder and CEO Jason Boehmig to lead product for a dedicated legal vertical (reported working title 'Codex for Legal'). Signals major frontier model companies treating legal as a standalone vertical. OpenAI joins Anthropic (Freshfields partnership) and Microsoft (Copilot for legal) in building legal-specific AI products.