Law firms building their own legal technology
44 legal tech companies in Law Firm Innovation, in 6 countries. Legal tech is technology built for legal work: the software and AI that lawyers, in-house legal teams, courts and people with a legal problem use to research, draft, review, manage and resolve legal matters. It spans legal AI assistants; contract, litigation, IP and compliance tools; practice management software; AI-native law firms that deliver legal work on technology they build themselves; and established law firms that build their own.
- A&O Shearman: Global firm that co-built and licenses ContractMatrix, an AI contract drafting and review tool, to clients (London, United Kingdom)
- Addleshaw Goddard: UK firm whose Innovation & Legal Technology team built AGPT, an in-house generative AI platform used across the firm (London, United Kingdom)
- Allens: Australian firm selling its own legal tech, including the Atticus verification platform and REDDA due diligence tool (Sydney, Australia)
- Ashurst Perkins Coie: Global firm whose NewLaw division, Ashurst Advance, includes a technology arm building digital legal services (London, United Kingdom)
- Baker Donelson: US firm that built its own legal project management platform, used on 13,000+ matters, plus budgeting and client portals (United States)
- Baker McKenzie: Global firm whose Reinvent programme includes an Applied AI team (formerly BakerML) building machine learning tools (Chicago, United States)
- Browne Jacobson: UK firm that built Jac, a secure internal AI chatbot, and offers client data platforms (United Kingdom)
- Burges Salmon: UK firm that builds its own client tools, from the clientspace platform to the BScale document generator and BHive (Bristol, United Kingdom)
- Cleary Data Solutions: Cleary Gottlieb's subsidiary selling AI contract-review software and managed transaction support. (New York, United States)
- Clifford Chance: Magic Circle firm with a tech unit (Clifford Chance Applied Solutions) and its own generative AI tool, CC Assist (London, United Kingdom)
- Clyde & Co: Insurance law firm that built Clyde & Co Newton, a claims-handling platform with automation and fraud detection (London, United Kingdom)
- CMS: International firm offering its own 'Smart Services' tools, such as CMS Dawn Raid Assistant and CMS Evidence
- Cooley: US tech-sector firm that runs Cooley GO, a free startup document generator, and is co-building an AI litigation agent (Palo Alto, United States)
- Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas: Indian firm running Prarambh, a legal tech incubator that backed start-ups such as Leegality and Presolv360 (Mumbai, India)
- DAC Beachcroft: UK insurance-focused firm that builds claims tools such as ACE, AiDan, COMPASS and Nightingale for insurers (United Kingdom)
- Davis Wright Tremaine: US firm whose internal R&D unit, DWT De Novo, builds legal tools and prototypes AI with Stanford CodeX (Seattle, United States)
- Dentons: Global firm that built fleetAI, a private GPT-4 assistant, and seeded the Nextlaw Labs and Nextlaw Ventures arms
- DLA Piper: Global firm that built Aiscension, an AI service that scans company communications for cartel and bribery risk
- ELTEMATE: Hogan Lovells' legal tech company building AI tools such as CRAIG and Regulatory Pilot for legal teams
- Fennemore: US firm running Project BlueWave AI, which built its DOT assistant, plus a Fennemore Labs R&D hub (Phoenix, United States)
- Fieldfisher X: Fieldfisher's Berlin legal tech unit selling productised legal services and mass-litigation defence. (Berlin, Germany)
- Freshfields: Global firm whose Freshfields Lab of developers and data scientists built its own AI platform; co-builds with Anthropic (London, United Kingdom)
- Gleiss Lutz: German firm that develops its own tools, including the Rocket class-action claim bot and FactTracker (Germany)
- Gowling WLG: UK-Canadian firm with in-house software developers, selling tools such as Saturn for online brand protection
- Gunderson Dettmer: Venture-focused US firm whose legal engineering team built ChatGD, a generative AI app for its lawyers (Redwood City, United States)
- Hengeler Mueller: German firm whose HM Legal Tech Center builds tools such as the HM Connect deal and case collaboration platform (Germany)
- Husch Blackwell: US firm whose HB Innovations subsidiary builds and licenses legal software, e.g. a Clery Act compliance tool (United States)
- Jackson Lewis: US employment law firm with proprietary apps for HR and legal teams and its own data analytics group (United States)
- Kennedys IQ: Kennedys' insurance tech company selling AI claims and risk software, including the SmartRisk tool, to insurers (London, United Kingdom)
- Kirkland & Ellis: US firm with an in-house team of engineers and data scientists building firm-owned AI, e.g. a fund formation engine (United States)
- KPMG Law US: KPMG's Arizona-licensed law firm doing high-volume contract and entity work on KPMG's own AI-enabled Digital Gateway (Tempe, United States)
- Linklaters: Magic Circle firm that built the CreateiQ contracting platform through its in-house tech venture Nakhoda (London, United Kingdom)
- Littler Mendelson: Employment law firm that built CaseSmart, a matter management and analytics platform for employer clients (San Francisco, United States)
- MDR LAB: Mishcon de Reya's incubator that runs programmes for early and growth-stage legal tech start-ups (London, United Kingdom)
- Mishcon de Reya: UK firm with its own AI tool (deReyAI), the MDR LAB innovation unit and tech-enabled brands such as MDR ONE (London, United Kingdom)
- NautaDutilh: Benelux firm that launched Bluefield in October 2026, a unit pairing lawyers and software engineers to build AI tools (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Norton Rose Fulbright: Global firm whose NRF Transform arm offers managed legal services and its own tools such as NRF Matter Hub
- Orrick: Global tech-focused firm whose Orrick Labs team of in-house technologists builds custom legal tools for clients (San Francisco, United States)
- Osborne Clarke: International firm whose OC Solutions team builds client platforms and AI tools such as Compliance Copilot (London, United Kingdom)
- Pinsent Masons: UK firm that built its own legal AI (TermFrame) and runs Vario, its flexible-lawyer and managed services arm (London, United Kingdom)
- Reed Smith: Global firm that built Gravity Stack, now Reed Smith Legal Solutions: 200+ lawyers and technologists using AI and data (Pittsburgh, United States)
- Seyfarth Shaw: US firm that runs SeyfarthLean Consulting and built SeyfarthLink, its client collaboration platform (Chicago, United States)
- Simmons & Simmons: International firm that bought legal engineering firm Wavelength in 2019 and runs it as Simmons Wavelength (London, United Kingdom)
- Troutman Pepper Locke: US firm that built Athena, its own generative AI assistant, and runs eMerge, an eDiscovery and data management unit (United States)
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