AI Assisted Drafting

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer announced a multi-year partnership with Anthropic on April 23, 2026, to deploy Claude AI models across its 33 offices and 5,700 employees. The rollout will occur through Freshfields' proprietary AI platform, with the firm and Anthropic jointly developing legal-specific workflows and agentic tools for contract review, legal research, due diligence, and document drafting. Usage of Claude surged 500% within the first six weeks of deployment. The partnership roadmap includes early access to new Anthropic models and expansion to Anthropic's Cowork agentic platform. Freshfields Lab, led by Partner and Co-Head Gerrit Beckhaus, is driving the collaboration alongside Anthropic's legal and product teams.

Perez Morris, a Columbus-based law firm, appointed Nick Morrison as director of artificial intelligence and technology strategy in January 2026. Four months into the role, Morrison's team is conducting a systematic evaluation of large-model AI tools for deployment across the firm, with particular attention to reliability, liability, data security, and output auditability. The assessment covers document review, contract analysis, legal research, and contract tagging—all subject to internal quality standards before firm-wide rollout.