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Dechert's Dual-Pronged GenAI Strategy: DechertMind and External Partnerships
Dechert- Significance
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- Reported
Dechert's innovation leadership detailed the firm's proprietary in-house GenAI tool, DechertMind, built on Microsoft Azure OpenAI to avoid vendor lock-in and allow swapping underlying LLMs, alongside the firm's Innovation Incubator program that gives attorneys billable-hour credit for GenAI project work — over 4,000 hours billed in one year. A published AI Privacy and Confidentiality Notice governs how DechertMind handles client-confidential data under GDPR, including client opt-out rights.
""Anybody within Dechert can go to DechertMind and our other AI tools... we're not subject to vendors and can put our own custom disclaimer on there. It also brings the security risks down." — Thor Alden, Director of Technology Innovation, Dechert"
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- Medium
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