The Law Firm AI Tracker

Norm Law appoints ex-Sidley Global Head of Real Estate Alan Weil as Partner, deepening AI-native firm leadership bench

Norm Law LLP, the AI-native affiliated law firm operating alongside AI infrastructure provider Norm Ai, appointed Alan Weil — formerly Global Head of Real Estate at Sidley Austin — as Partner and Head of Real Estate. Weil will lead the firm's real estate practice and collaborate with attorneys, legal engineers, and AI engineers to build AI-native workflows for complex real estate transactions and financings. The hire follows Norm Ai's $120M Series C (led by Khosla Ventures, valuing the company at ~$1.2B, with strategic investors including Blackstone, Bain Capital Ventures, Vanguard, Coatue, New York Life, and TIAA) and continues a pattern of senior Am Law leadership joining Norm Law, including Chairman Mike Schmidtberger (former Sidley Austin Executive Committee chair) and partner John Budetti (ex-Kirkland & Ellis, Paul Hastings).

Morgan & Morgan hires ex-Amazon engineering leader Kaushik Chakraborti as first Chief AI Officer

Morgan & Morgan, America's largest personal injury law firm, hired longtime Amazon technologist Kaushik Chakraborti as its first Chief AI Officer, based in Irvine, CA. Chakraborti spent nearly 12 years at Amazon in senior engineering leadership, integrating agentic AI and LLMs into workflows and playing a key role launching Alexa+. He will lead AI strategy focused on optimizing operations, driving revenue growth, and enhancing client experience, joining a technology leadership team that includes the firm's Chief Transformation Officer, CTO, CIO, and Head of Product. The firm emphasized its long-standing investment in proprietary in-house technology to standardize and scale operations nationwide.

BakerHostetler among first law firms in early access for Intapp Celeste, now generally available

BakerHostetler

Intapp announced general availability of Celeste, an agentic "AI coworker" designed to run business operations for professional firms — deal screening, conflicts clearance, business development, and end-to-end lateral hiring. BakerHostetler was named as one of Celeste's early-adopter law firm customers during its limited release (alongside private equity firm Hg), roughly five months after Intapp first previewed the product. Celeste can invoke Harvey's practice-of-law workflows under compliance/ethical-wall controls and runs Anthropic's Claude models within Intapp's governed environment.

Klinedinst PC adopts StrongSuit firmwide for litigation workflows

Klinedinst PC, a corporate litigation and transactional firm serving the Western US, announced firmwide implementation of StrongSuit, an AI platform combining a proprietary case law database with agentic litigation tools. The firm selected StrongSuit after a multi-vendor evaluation for its research capabilities and ease of integration into existing workflows, deploying it across attorneys and paralegals for document analysis, case chronologies, and discovery responses in professional liability, employment, business, and construction disputes.

Torkin Manes names Sondra Rebenchuk inaugural AI and Innovation Director, poached from Blakes

Toronto firm Torkin Manes appointed Sondra Rebenchuk as its inaugural Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Director, having left Blakes, Cassels & Graydon LLP where she was part of the firm's strategic AI working group and helped design and roll out generative AI pilots across practice groups. At Torkin Manes she will lead AI, legal technology, and innovation strategy firmwide. Rebenchuk previously taught emerging-technology law and governance at Osgoode Hall Law School and was an AI practice consultant for Kira Systems.

Reed Smith Legal Solutions launches Aquarius platform for EU crypto-asset compliance

Reed Smith

Reed Smith Legal Solutions — the firm's consolidated alternative legal services division spanning consulting, investigations, litigation, regulatory compliance, transactional work, and contract lifecycle services — launched Aquarius, a platform helping crypto-asset issuers comply with the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). Aquarius automates portions of the compliance process, including categorizing crypto-assets, generating white papers, and running due diligence, while routing bespoke needs to Reed Smith lawyers for formal legal opinions. The firm plans to extend Aquarius's logic to crypto-asset regimes in other jurisdictions, including the UK, UAE, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

Charles Russell Speechlys adopts Harvey after structured five-vendor head-to-head evaluation

Charles Russell Speechlys

Charles Russell Speechlys (CRS) ran a structured two-week, five-vendor head-to-head AI evaluation with 46 lawyers (trainees to partners), generating 7,000 structured data points across real (non-confidential) case work. The exercise — prompted by the March 2025 acquisition of its former custom-AI vendor Springbok AI by US firm Cleary Gottlieb — found that legal competence and conceptual understanding mattered more than speed, and that Harvey was the clear top performer across all task categories. CRS has since used Harvey on a Swiss Basketball regulatory overhaul, a workplace harassment investigation, and preparation for a criminal fraud trial. The firm published its methodology and findings publicly in partnership with TLW Consulting.

Johnson Stokes & Master builds governance-first Microsoft Copilot agents, led by client-specific Employment Legal Advice Agent

Johnson Stokes & Master (JSM), a leading independent Hong Kong law firm, has developed a growing suite of internal AI agents built on Microsoft Copilot, emphasizing a governance-first, human-led approach. The flagship is an Employment Legal Advice Copilot Agent built for Microsoft (as a client) to support high-volume employment advisory work, with plans to replicate the model for other corporate clients under their own policies. The agent organizes matter context, identifies key issues, and generates first-pass drafts of risks, options, and recommended next steps — all outputs are reviewed and approved by qualified lawyers before external use, with no autonomous legal advice generation or bypass of professional oversight.

Reed Smith creates dedicated AI-focused legal services team

Reed Smith

Reed Smith formed a new internal AI and e-discovery department on July 10, 2026, uniting practicing lawyers, e-discovery specialists, and AI professionals to deliver "legal, business and technology-focused guidance" to both clients and internal operations. The structure signals a move toward embedding AI capabilities directly within core practice areas — covering contract analysis, document review, privilege logs, due diligence, and litigation support — rather than relying on external vendors or standalone innovation labs. The firm has not released staffing numbers or leadership appointments. Follows the firm's Cornell Tech AI Leadership Program launch (Jun 29).

Wotton Kearney selects Intapp DealCloud with Celeste for AI-driven relationship intelligence

Wotton Kearney

Wotton Kearney, Asia Pacific's leading specialist insurance and risk law firm, selected Intapp DealCloud with Celeste following a competitive RFP process to unify client relationship intelligence and equip lawyers and business development teams with agentic AI capabilities. The platform will surface cross-selling opportunities and institutional knowledge in plain language, supporting the firm's international growth ambitions. Implementation will be led by Epiq, Intapp's deployment partner.

Pillsbury hires Oz Benamram as first Chief AI Officer, builds four-director AI leadership team

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman hired law firm executive Oz Benamram as its first Chief AI Officer, tasked with hiring a team to expand the firm's AI use. Benamram helped shape four new director-level roles reporting to him: knowledge management and innovation; data science and AI engineering; practice applications; and AI transformation. Unlike Kirkland & Ellis's $500M proprietary AI platform strategy, Pillsbury's chair said the firm does not plan a capital-intensive build-out, instead treating AI investment as inseparable from broader firm strategy. The firm currently uses ChatGPT, Harvey, CoCounsel, Microsoft Copilot, Definely, and ClearBrief.

Ally Law network accelerates AI adoption across ~80 member firms through Legora collaboration

Ally Law, a global legal network of nearly 80 independent law firms across 50 countries, announced a network-wide collaboration with Legora to help member firms evaluate and adopt AI tools. Since late 2025, nearly a quarter of Ally Law member firms have finalized agreements with Legora and begun implementation. The initiative is part of Ally Law's broader strategy to help member firms improve efficiency, strengthen client service, and remain competitive as AI reshapes legal service delivery.

Arthur Cox partners with Legora to scale AI-enabled legal services firmwide

Arthur Cox LLP, one of Ireland's leading law firms and the first Irish firm to establish a dedicated Innovation Lawyer Group, selected Legora as a strategic partner for the next phase of its AI strategy, with a firmwide rollout now underway. The firm's delivery model brings together lawyers, legal engineers, and technologists, combining proprietary in-house technology with selected partnerships under formal governance. Legora's team was onsite with Arthur Cox for six weeks supporting onboarding throughout the rollout.

Fasken partners with Legora firmwide, building on early Walter AI collaboration

Fasken

Fasken, a major Canadian law firm, announced a strategic firmwide partnership with Legora to support client work. Fasken was an early adopter of Walter AI, an agent-native legal AI platform, and played a key role in developing the Walter AI Assistant under a Joint Innovation Program; Walter AI was acquired by Legora in March 2026, folding that collaboration and technology directly into the Legora platform. The partnership also marks an expansion of Legora's operations in Canada.

Barnes & Thornburg names 38 AI Practice Champions to embed AI across all practice groups

Barnes & Thornburg

Barnes & Thornburg (850+ lawyers, 26 markets) announced that 38 attorneys across the firm are now serving as dedicated AI Practice Champions, embedding AI directly into how lawyers practice rather than treating it as a standalone capability. Nearly 90% of the firm's attorneys are actively using AI, with more than 1,000 users logged into Harvey since firmwide deployment and over 150,000 prompts submitted across the firm's AI platforms (Harvey, CoCounsel, and ChatBT, the firm's internal general AI portal) in the past 30 days alone. The Practice Champions work alongside the firm's AI Industry Group to create a feedback loop between deployed tools and the attorneys/clients using them.

Niederer Kraft Frey partners with Legora to accelerate AI adoption across Swiss practice

Niederer Kraft Frey (NKF), one of Switzerland's leading commercial law firms, has partnered with Legora to accelerate AI adoption firmwide following a structured evaluation and testing phase led internally by NKF's legal tech team with Legora's implementation team. The firm emphasized that its decision hinged on adoption support rather than the tool alone — avoiding a "buy licenses and train" approach in favor of embedded, ongoing implementation support. NKF has a long history of digital-first practice, having adopted a paper-free model early on.

Kepler-Karst adopts Harvey to strengthen restructuring and insolvency practice

Spanish law firm Kepler-Karst, specializing in corporate restructurings, insolvencies, sovereign debt, and complex litigation, has signed a collaboration agreement with Harvey to strengthen efficiency and client value. The tool will support document review, regulatory research and classification, case law search, and draft preparation, freeing lawyers to focus on legal analysis, strategy, and specialized advisory work. The firm emphasized that Harvey supports rather than replaces professional judgment, with human oversight maintained throughout.

Simmons & Simmons partners with Legora, building on AI frontrunner status

International law firm Simmons & Simmons announced a partnership with Legora to deploy its legal AI platform across the firm's global offices. Legora will support client-facing teams and operate alongside Simmons & Simmons' existing generative AI tools, including its proprietary Percy and Microsoft Copilot. The move extends the firm's "build and buy" AI strategy, which already includes a multi-award-winning in-house AI team and a dedicated AI regulation/governance practice.

Bae, Kim & Lee deploys Harvey firmwide — first Korean law firm to adopt a global legal AI platform at scale

Bae, Kim & Lee (BKL, known domestically as "Pacific"), one of Korea's largest law firms, is deploying Harvey across its entire practice following a successful pilot — the first Korean law firm to adopt a global legal AI platform firmwide. Harvey will support cross-border M&A, international disputes, and multi-jurisdictional regulatory work, with Korean-language capabilities and lawyer-first governance. Alongside the Harvey rollout, BKL is building a proprietary retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) knowledge base from its internal document repository. Input data will not be used for AI model training, and outputs are subject to cross-review by lawyers.

Racine embeds Legora as core daily practice across all levels — France's AI adoption model

Racine, one of France's leading independent law firms, has been using Legora as a core part of daily legal work for several months — not as a pilot, but embedded across all practice areas and every level of seniority. The rollout was led by the firm's AI committee (partners overseeing operational rollout aligned to strategic vision), supported by concrete use cases, structured training, and change management. Legora frames the partnership as a model of serious, sustained AI adoption in a traditionally conservative European legal market.

Reed Smith launches AI Leadership Program with Cornell Tech for partners

Reed Smith

Reed Smith partnered with Cornell University's Executive Education unit to launch the Reed Smith Artificial Intelligence Leadership Program, a workshop series for the firm's partners to be held in September at the Cornell Tech campus in New York City. Led by Cornell faculty including Matthew D'Amore, Nate Schorr, and Karan Girotra, the program covers responsible AI adoption, technical fluency, and AI-related operational strategy, and is also intended to strengthen the firm's ability to advise clients on AI implementation.

Kirkland & Ellis and Syllo announce exclusive strategic partnership on litigation AI

Kirkland & Ellis

Kirkland & Ellis, the world's largest law firm by revenue, announced a multiyear strategic partnership with Syllo (TLA Tech Inc.), a unified platform for litigation case management, eDiscovery, legal research, analysis, and drafting. Following a multiyear market evaluation, Kirkland selected Syllo for rollout across its litigation practice and secured exclusive rights (for a defined period) to build proprietary solutions and knowledge infrastructure on top of the platform. This is Kirkland's second major AI partnership announced within a month, following its Palantir tie-up for private funds work, and part of its broader $500M proprietary AI platform strategy.

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.

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.

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.

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.