Freshfields and Anthropic Form Multi-Year AI Co-Innovation Partnership

Scale: Multi-year agreement. Claude deployed to 5,700 employees across 33 offices. 500% adoption surge in 6 weeks.
Vendors: Anthropic
Significance: High
Confidence: Confirmed

Why this matters

Freshfields is building AI capability with partners, with Anthropic in the stack. This is a high-significance signal for buyers benchmarking their panel.

Freshfields announced a multi-year agreement with Anthropic to co-build AI legal workflows and deploy Claude firmwide across 33 offices to 5,700 employees, with adoption surging ~500% in six weeks. The firm is also an early adopter of Thomson Reuters' CoCounsel Legal rebuilt on Anthropic's technology.

"With this collaboration, we are going further: co-developing agentic workflows with Anthropic that can handle multi-step legal tasks end-to-end. — Gerrit Beckhaus, Partner and Co-Head Freshfields Lab"

Scale / Terms: Multi-year agreement. Claude deployed to 5,700 employees across 33 offices. 500% adoption surge in 6 weeks.
Significance: High
Source type: Firm Press Release

Vendors involved

Anthropic

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