Baker McKenzie has announced a global rollout of legal AI platform Legora.
The law firm is undertaking a phased deployment of the software across its six global practice groups: transactional, banking and finance, tax, dispute resolution, employment and compensation, and commercial.
According to publicly available data tracked by Pirical, the firm has more than 3,500 lawyers on its books, working out of 74 offices in 41 countries.
Initially, Legora will be used for large-scale document review and data extraction, document comparison and targeted search, multi-document editing, drafting and redlining, and checklist preparation, the firm said.
Ben Allgrove, partner and chief innovation officer, said the firm operated a “multi-vendor ecosystem” in order to ensure that “simply put, we are building better legal services”.
He added: “Making sure our lawyers have access to the right tools, both in the short and longer term, and the training to use them is central to us achieving that.
“We get that efficiency is the current focus, and rightly so, but we believe that long-term, the winners will be those lawyers that can use AI to deliver better quality legal services.”
Bakers said it would continue to grow its applied AI practice, which was launched in 2021 and houses a team of technologists and specialist lawyers tasked with designing and deploying new legal workflows.
In a LinkedIn post, Legora’s CEO, Max Junestrand, highlighted the work being done by the applied AI practice.
“Our legal engineers will work directly alongside that team, turning legal expertise into scalable, repeatable solutions,” he said.
Legora and its gen AI rival Harvey AI have been competing fiercely for traction among top law firms, including through eye-catching brand awareness advertising.
Last month, UK Magic Circle firm Slaughter and May became the latest leading firm to adopt Harvey AI firmwide.
Meanwhile, earlier this week, Anthropic made a significant move into the legal sector, with the launch of 12 practice area plugins via its Claude AI-agent technology. Last month, it joined forces with Slaughters’ UK rival Freshfields to jointly develop legal AI tools.
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