AT&T taps OpenAI for LegalEdge in-house legal team and plans to cut outside firm roster to 18-20, favoring firms that use AI

AT&T is deploying OpenAI chatbots and agents in LegalEdge, its roughly 38-person in-house practice, to make a century of legal history searchable. GC David McAtee said AT&T plans to reduce its national outside firms from about 30 to 18-20 over two years and reward firms that adopt AI in their own practices. Follows LegalEdge launch logged May 2026.