AI capability profile
Osborne Clarke
Osborne Clarke: 10 tracked AI moves since 2025 across agentic & workflow, training & talent and other.
- Tracked since
- 2025
- Tracked moves
- 10
- Capability areas
- 7
- Latest activity
- Jun 2026
Where AI is being used
Capability areas derived from every publicly tracked move at this firm.
Agentic & Workflow
3 movesOsborne Clarke spins off Justima — AI-powered regulatory monitoring platform
Other
2 movesOC AI tech team wins Best Transformation Initiative at European Lawyer Awards
Infrastructure & Platform
1 moveOsborne Clarke spins off Justima — AI-powered regulatory monitoring platform
GenAI Assistant
1 moveIn their own words
Attributed statements captured on tracked moves.
“It's a technology solution... it is not a law firm operating model." — Omar Al-Nuaimi, International CEO, Osborne Clarke”
“It is not a law firm operating model, it's a tech offering. — Gereon Abendroth, Managing Partner, Osborne Clarke”
“AI is transforming the legal market and we prefer to actively shape this change rather than simply react to it. Osborne Clarke is a leader in the regulatory space and in AI engineering. With Justima, we bring both together. — Gereon Abendroth, Chairman, Justima / Managing Partner, Osborne Clarke”
“We enthusiastically accepted Lexroom.ai's invitation to collaborate on this project. — Gianluigi Marino, Partner, Head of AI and Digitalisation, Osborne Clarke Italy”
Tracked activity
Every move TVPi has recorded for this firm, newest first.
- Key HireJun 1, 2026
Belgium office Innovation Lawyer role posted
Osborne Clarke posted an Innovation Lawyer role in its Belgium office, signaling continued build-out of dedicated innovation/AI-facing legal roles across its network.
- Spinout / New VentureMay 21, 2026
Osborne Clarke spins off Justima — AI-powered regulatory monitoring platform
Osborne Clarke spun off Justima as an independent company — an AI-powered regulatory monitoring platform tracking 200+ EU and national regulatory sources. Uses agentic AI for tailored regulatory updates with consequence analysis and response recommendations. Founded by Alexander Lilienbeck (CEO) and Christian Braun (CTO). International CEO Omar Al-Nuaimi: 'It's a technology solution... it is not a law firm operating model.'
- Spinout / New VentureMay 21, 2026
Osborne Clarke Spins Off Justima AI Regulatory Monitoring Company
Osborne Clarke spun off Justima, an AI-powered regulatory monitoring company that monitors 200+ legal and regulatory sources. The firm chose to spin out because a technology product doesn't fit a traditional law firm operating model.
- Spinout / New VentureMay 21, 2026
Justima AI-powered regulatory monitoring platform spun out as independent company
Osborne Clarke spun out Justima, an AI-agent-driven regulatory monitoring platform for corporate compliance teams — the first spinout in the firm's 250-year history. Justima monitors 200+ legal/regulatory sources daily and delivers tailored, business-relevant updates. Co-founded by CEO Alexander Lilienbeck and CTO Christian Braun; OC managing partner Gereon Abendroth serves as chairman. Osborne Clarke retains a majority ownership stake via its German legal-tech entity. Launched with five employees and roughly 30-60 corporate users in a prior validation phase, no VC funding to date.
- Internal BuildJan 7, 2026
Three-pillar AI deployment strategy detailed (OC GPT, Nova 2 pilot program, third-party legal research tools)
Osborne Clarke Paris innovation lead Xavier Pican detailed the firm's three-pronged AI strategy: OC GPT, an internal generative AI tool used daily firmwide; 'Nova 2,' a large-scale evaluation program testing specialized legal AI tools with a roughly 30-person cross-functional pilot team; and evaluation of third-party legal research/documentation tools from LexisNexis, Dalloz, and Lamy.
- OtherDec 5, 2025
OC AI tech team wins Best Transformation Initiative at European Lawyer Awards
Osborne Clarke's AI technology team (Alexander Lilienbeck, Christian Braun, Gereon Abendroth) won Best Transformation Initiative at the European Lawyer Awards for a paper titled 'Transforming Legal Delivery through Foundational AI Research.'
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- Internal BuildDec 5, 2025
AI Ambassadors Network launched
Osborne Clarke launched an AI Ambassadors Network, a cross-office group of AI champions supporting AI adoption and training across the firm's international offices.
- Pilot / TrialOct 6, 2025
Intapp Time automated time-capture pilot shows measurable ROI
Osborne Clarke piloted Intapp Time's AI-driven automated time capture, with each user recovering an average of 1.5 additional billable hours per week; more than 70% of participating lawyers reported the tool surfaced time that would otherwise have gone unbilled.
- PartnershipSep 15, 2025
Lexroom.ai Consumer Law Module collaboration
Osborne Clarke collaborated with Italian legal AI platform Lexroom.ai to build a Consumer Law Module, using a semantic query engine trained on vertical legal sources to answer natural-language legal questions across national/EU consumer regulation.
- Key HireAug 7, 2025
Marc Ohrendorf hired as Chief of Staff to the international AI Management Board
Osborne Clarke appointed Marc Ohrendorf as Chief of Staff to its international AI Management Board, strengthening the governance and coordination structure overseeing the firm's global AI strategy.
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AI Activity Score
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Move mix
- Spinout / New Venture3
- Key Hire2
- Internal Build2
- Other1
- Pilot / Trial1
- Partnership1
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