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Clifford Chance launches AI Knowledge Bank — 400,000+ documents, built with Microsoft and Epiq Advisory

Clifford Chance

Clifford Chance launched its AI Knowledge Bank, a new knowledge management platform developed over six months in partnership with Epiq Advisory for Law Firms and Microsoft. The repository holds more than 400,000 reclassified and AI-summarised firm documents, built entirely within Microsoft 365 and Azure (SharePoint, Power Platform, Graph API, Azure AI Studio), and features permissioned natural language search with metadata-driven access controls to protect client confidentiality. The platform gives the firm control over its own KM roadmap rather than relying on third-party software, and is designed to feed trusted internal knowledge into generative AI tools.

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Johnson Stokes & Master builds governance-first Microsoft Copilot agents, led by client-specific Employment Legal Advice Agent

Johnson Stokes & Master (JSM), a leading independent Hong Kong law firm, has developed a growing suite of internal AI agents built on Microsoft Copilot, emphasizing a governance-first, human-led approach. The flagship is an Employment Legal Advice Copilot Agent built for Microsoft (as a client) to support high-volume employment advisory work, with plans to replicate the model for other corporate clients under their own policies. The agent organizes matter context, identifies key issues, and generates first-pass drafts of risks, options, and recommended next steps — all outputs are reviewed and approved by qualified lawyers before external use, with no autonomous legal advice generation or bypass of professional oversight.

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Shoosmiths launches Project Apollo — proprietary AI contract review built with Microsoft on Azure

Shoosmiths

UK firm Shoosmiths unveiled Project Apollo, a self-developed generative AI contract review platform built over a year with Microsoft support and now deployed firmwide. Running in Microsoft's Azure environment, the tool marks up contracts against a playbook and gold-standard drafting derived from Shoosmiths' dealmakers — explicitly avoiding opaque 'black-box' models. Designed to mirror how a senior associate justifies changes to a partner, every step surfaces its reasoning, creating a real-time learning environment that accelerates development of junior lawyers.

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Faegre Drinker deploys Harvey and Microsoft Copilot firmwide across 22 offices in US, UK, and China

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath

Faegre Drinker formally deployed two AI assistants firmwide — Microsoft Copilot (integrated into Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, Edge) and Harvey (legal-specific AI) — to every attorney, paralegal, and administrative staff member across its 22 offices in the US, UK, and China. The rollout followed an eight-month pilot beginning October 2025 involving 300 early adopters testing tools on live client matters under strict governance protocols, including attorney-client privilege safeguards and mandatory output verification. The firm previously tested its own AI platform, Atlas AI, before committing to Harvey and Copilot enterprise-wide.

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