Pillsbury hires Oz Benamram as first Chief AI Officer, builds four-director AI leadership team
- Vendors
- CoCounsel, Harvey AI
- Significance
- Medium
- Confidence
- Confirmed
Why this matters
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman is buying the talent to run AI at scale, with CoCounsel and Harvey AI in the stack. A meaningful marker of where the firm's capability is heading.
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.
""The goal is to ensure AI permeates throughout our firm. Clients aren't just asking whether their law firm uses AI well—they're asking us to help them navigate it. That deserved a seat at the leadership table." — David Dekker, Chair, Pillsbury"
- Significance
- Medium
- Source type
- Trade Press
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