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DLA Piper
DLA Piper: 13 tracked AI moves since 2023 across GenAI Assistant, contract review & drafting and compliance & regulatory, involving 1 named technology.
Capability Index
48
Cooling
Market rank
29
of 274 tracked firms
- Tracked since
- 2023
- Evidence records
- 13
- Capability areas
- 11
- Named technologies
- 1
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DLA Piper shows cooling visible AI activity, with the strongest recorded concentration in genai assistant. 1 named technology appears across the evidence.
Analysis based only on published evidence tracked by TVPi; it is not a claim about unobserved firm activity.
Capability intelligence
Tracked capabilities and adoption
Areas inferred from public moves, with recency and supporting evidence visible at a glance.
GenAI Assistant
8 movesDLA Piper scales Harvey firmwide — 5,000 licenses across global offices
Contract Review & Drafting
3 movesDLA Piper Sweden Expands Newcode.ai Partnership 4x
Compliance & Regulatory
3 movesDLA Piper's GenAI Strategy Named Most Innovative in Europe at FT Innovative Lawyer Awards
Policy / Governance
2 movesDLA Piper Develops Domain-Specific Small Language Models for Legal and Compliance
Infrastructure & Platform
2 movesDLA Piper Scales Harvey Deployment to 5,000 Licenses Worldwide
eDiscovery & Litigation
2 movesDLA Piper Launches Aiscension Bribery AI Compliance Module with Reveal
Activity intelligence
Momentum and strategy mix
Activity by quarter
Strategy move mix
- Product Adoption38%
- Internal Build38%
- Partnership15%
- Other8%
Technology ecosystem
Named platforms in the evidence
A vendor appears here only when it is connected to a tracked move.
Outcome evidence
Proof points and verified case studies
“This partnership is about building capability, not just capacity. We're not just adopting a tool; we're creating something new together." — Magnus Oskarsson, Country Managing Partner, DLA Piper Sweden”
“Harvey has accelerated our innovation journey in ways our lawyers feel every day. The pilot results and the pull from the business were clear, so we decided to scale quickly." — DLA Piper spokesperson”
“The pilot results and the pull from the business were clear, so we decided to scale quickly with great support from the Harvey team." — DLA Piper spokesperson”
Evidence ledger
Tracked activity
Every published record for this firm, newest first.
- Internal BuildJul 9, 2026Observed
DLA Piper Develops Domain-Specific Small Language Models for Legal and Compliance
DLA Piper is developing proprietary workflows and small language models built with cross-functional technical and legal expertise to make legal and compliance guidance more accessible through responsible AI, according to a panel featuring the firm's Applied AI leadership. The initiative reflects a shift from generic GenAI tools toward custom, domain-specific models grounded in trusted data and tested for reliability.
Interview / Podcast · Reported confidence
- PartnershipApr 21, 2026Observed
DLA Piper Sweden Expands Newcode.ai Partnership 4x
DLA Piper Sweden expanded its partnership with Newcode.ai, scaling firm-wide license and usage by 4x after a successful pilot phase across practices and workflows. The expansion is framed by the country managing partner as building AI capability, not just capacity, aiming to set a new benchmark for legal AI in the Nordics.
LinkedIn · Confirmed confidence
- Product AdoptionMar 16, 2026Observed
DLA Piper scales Harvey firmwide — 5,000 licenses across global offices
DLA Piper expanded its Harvey deployment to 5,000 licenses firmwide across its global footprint (March 2026), following a December 2025 rollout to 3,000+ US lawyers. Harvey is used for drafting and document work alongside firmwide Microsoft Copilot, supported by a centre-of-excellence model. Danny Tobey (Global Co-Chair, Americas AI & Data Analytics practice) leads the strategy.
Vendor Announcement · Confirmed confidence
- Product AdoptionMar 16, 2026Observed
DLA Piper Scales Harvey Deployment to 5,000 Licenses Worldwide
DLA Piper expanded its Harvey AI deployment to 5,000 licenses globally, following an extensive pilot phase across multiple practices, making it one of the largest law firm Harvey rollouts. Harvey now sits alongside Microsoft Copilot as a core part of DLA Piper's AI toolkit, and the expansion supports the firm's growth in APAC markets.
Trade Press · Confirmed confidence
- Product AdoptionDec 19, 2025Observed
DLA Piper Rolls Out Harvey to All 3,000 US Attorneys
DLA Piper completed rollout of Harvey to every US-based attorney (~3,000 lawyers) following a pilot phase, running alongside Microsoft 365 Copilot as part of a layered AI stack -- the domestic precursor to the firm's later global 5,000-license scale-up.
Trade Press · Reported confidence
- PartnershipJun 12, 2025Observed
DLA Piper Launches Initial Newcode.ai Agentic AI Partnership Across Nordic Offices
DLA Piper announced a strategic partnership with Norway-based Newcode.ai to deploy agentic AI workflows across Sweden, Norway, and Finland, with an embedded Newcode.ai team member co-designing bespoke workflows on-site -- the initial announcement later expanded 4x in Sweden (already logged).
Firm Press Release · Confirmed confidence
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- OtherSep 13, 2024Observed
DLA Piper's GenAI Strategy Named Most Innovative in Europe at FT Innovative Lawyer Awards
DLA Piper's comprehensive Generative AI Strategy -- spanning client advisory, in-house tools including ButterflAI, governance frameworks, and a 100+ person GenAI team -- was named best in Europe at the FT Innovative Lawyer Awards 2024.
Firm Press Release · Confirmed confidence
- Internal BuildSep 1, 2024Observed
DLA Piper Develops ButterflAI, In-House GenAI Legal Assistant
DLA Piper's 100+ person GenAI team built ButterflAI, a proprietary generative AI legal assistant designed for client data security, shortlisted for the FT Innovative Lawyers 2024 'Innovation in Generative AI Tools' award.
Firm Press Release · Confirmed confidence
- Internal BuildJun 1, 2024Observed
DLA Piper Releases SAGE AI Governance Framework for Clients
DLA Piper released a white paper introducing SAGE, a systematic data-driven AI governance framework combining human subject-matter experts with algorithms to help clients navigate AI regulatory requirements across jurisdictions -- part of the firm's strategy of commercializing AI compliance products.
Other · Reported confidence
- Internal BuildJan 1, 2024Observed
DLA Piper Launches ANSAi, GenAI-Backed Legal Training Simulator
DLA Piper built ANSAi, a proprietary GenAI-backed 150-hour legal negotiations training simulator that uses generative AI to dynamically generate and evolve a complex multi-stakeholder deal scenario as a 'challenger' to stress-test lawyer decision-making; launched in Finance in 2024, expanded to Employment and Real Estate by May 2025.
Trade Press · Confirmed confidence
- Product AdoptionNov 1, 2023Observed
DLA Piper Becomes First Major Firm to Adopt Microsoft 365 Copilot Firmwide
DLA Piper was an early adopter of Microsoft 365 Copilot starting with several hundred licenses in late 2023 under a 'coalition of the willing' approach led by Chief Innovation Officer Andrew Gastwirth, embedding AI into Word, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint.
Vendor Announcement · Confirmed confidence
- Internal BuildAug 1, 2023Observed
DLA Piper Launches Aiscension Bribery AI Compliance Module with Reveal
DLA Piper launched Aiscension Bribery, an AI module built with Reveal that scans unstructured corporate data across 100+ languages to detect bribery indicators, extending the firm's Aiscension compliance platform; the firm claims reviews run 10x faster than conventional methods.
Trade Press · Confirmed confidence
- Product AdoptionMar 15, 2023Observed
DLA Piper Adopts Casetext CoCounsel, First GPT-4-Powered Legal AI Assistant
DLA Piper announced it would use CoCounsel, Casetext's GPT-4-based AI legal assistant, becoming one of the first major firms to commit to a named GenAI legal tool for research, document review, deposition prep, and contract analysis. Chief Data Scientist Bennett Borden confirmed the adoption.
Firm Press Release · Confirmed confidence
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