Davis Wright Tremaine LLP is rolling out Harvey and Microsoft Copilot across its entire firm, giving more than 600 attorneys access to AI tools for legal drafting, research, and document review. The August 18 announcement pairs Harvey's legal-specific platform with Microsoft 365's productivity features as part of a push to reach 90% adoption and rank in the top quartile of law firms using AI to change how legal work gets done.
"AI is rapidly changing both the practice of law and our clients' expectations," said Jaime Drozd, managing partner of DWT. "By combining technology designed specifically for legal work with enterprise productivity tools, we are giving our lawyers and business professionals new ways to work more efficiently, apply their judgment to the most complex challenges, and create greater value for clients."
The firm's lawyers and legal professionals will use Harvey for drafting, research, review, analysis, and document-intensive workflows. The platform is designed to support faster turnaround, more consistent work product, deeper analysis, and greater budget predictability while keeping professional judgment and verification central to the process.
Microsoft Copilot across the firm
Microsoft Copilot is available firmwide within Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. It helps users summarize information, analyze data, draft content, access organizational knowledge, and identify insights from the emails, meetings, chats, and files they are authorized to use.
DWT is also adopting Microsoft's AI Frontier Suite, powered by Microsoft 365 E7, as a secure enterprise foundation for AI governance and future capabilities. Beginning in early 2027, the suite is expected to support Copilot Agents and Copilot Cowork, enabling users to automate routine processes and coordinate multistep work across Microsoft 365 while retaining control over key decisions and approvals.
The expansion builds on DWT's existing responsible AI program, which includes security review, governance, training, and supervision by legal professionals. The firm has been a recognized leader in AI innovation.
Why this matters for legal professionals
Law firms are moving from piloting AI tools to deploying them firmwide, and DWT's approach shows what that transition looks like in practice: legal-specific platforms for substantive work, enterprise tools for everyday productivity, and a governance layer to keep both in check. For lawyers weighing their own firm's AI strategy, the practical takeaway is that adoption targets and infrastructure decisions are becoming as important as the tools themselves. "Technology is most valuable when it strengthens judgment rather than replacing it," Drozd said. "Our goal is to equip our people to spend less time on routine tasks and more time solving difficult problems, advancing client objectives, and designing better ways to deliver legal services."
For legal professionals looking to build the skills these tools require, AI for Legal training covers practical applications for law firm work. Those working with Microsoft's ecosystem can find relevant instruction in Microsoft AI Courses.
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