Baker McKenzie deploys Legora across all practice groups
Baker McKenzie is rolling out the legal AI platform Legora across its global operations, beginning a phased deployment that will reach all six practice groups: transactional, banking and finance, tax, dispute resolution, employment and compensation, and commercial.
The firm, which operates 74 offices in 41 countries with more than 3,500 lawyers, will initially use Legora for document review, data extraction, document comparison, targeted search, multi-document editing, drafting, redlining, and checklist preparation.
Competing for adoption among top firms
Legora and rival platform Harvey AI have been competing intensely for adoption among leading law firms. Last month, Magic Circle firm Slaughter and May selected Harvey AI for firmwide deployment.
Ben Allgrove, partner and chief innovation officer at Baker McKenzie, said the firm operates a "multi-vendor ecosystem" to ensure it builds better legal services. He framed efficiency gains as a near-term benefit but emphasized that long-term success depends on lawyers using AI to improve work quality, not just speed.
"Making sure our lawyers have access to the right tools and the training to use them is central to us achieving that," Allgrove said.
Building scalable workflows
Baker McKenzie will lean on its applied AI practice, launched in 2021, to design and deploy new legal workflows. The team houses technologists and specialist lawyers tasked with turning legal expertise into repeatable solutions.
Max Junestrand, Legora's CEO, said the platform's legal engineers will work directly with Baker McKenzie's applied AI practice to scale those solutions.
Broader moves into legal AI
The legal sector is attracting significant AI investment beyond individual law firm deployments. Anthropic launched 12 practice area plugins through its Claude AI-agent technology this week and partnered with Freshfields last month to develop joint legal AI tools.
For legal professionals evaluating these tools and their impact on practice, understanding AI for Legal and Generative AI and LLM fundamentals provides essential context for adoption decisions.
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