BigLaw and AI Legal Workflows

A sharp-eyed law student brought this to my attention:

Global law firm Freshfields and Anthropic, a leading AI research and technology company, are joining forces on a multi-year agreement to accelerate AI co-innovation and firm-wide adoption and develop novel AI legal workflows.

Freshfields has provided access to Claude, Anthropic’s family of frontier AI models, to 5,700 employees, via Freshfields’ proprietary general AI platform delivered in a secure and responsible way. Within the first six weeks, the adoption and usage of Claude has increased by ~500 percent, with thousands of users leveraging Freshfields’ solutions to access Claude.

(via BusinessWire)

The whole press release is here.

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Michael Madison

Michael Madison is Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He is a Senior Scholar with the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security (Pitt Cyber). At Pitt Law, he is Faculty Director of the Future Law Project and a John E. Murray Faculty Scholar. Professor Madison is a co-Principal Investigator of the Workshop on Governing Knowledge Commons global research collaborative and a series editor of the Cambridge University Press Studies in Governing Knowledge Commons series. He is a founder and leader of Future Law Works, a corps of volunteer leaders focused on the futures of legal education and other institutions of the legal system; of the “Ethics and Economics of Expertise” (E3) workshop at the University of Pittsburgh, a periodic conversation directed to the future of higher education; and of “PASTA,” the “Pitt AI Scholar Teacher Alliance,” a working group. From time to time, he publishes Your Leadership Podcast and a newsletter titled “Everything in Between,” about institutions and governance.