Freshfields Celebrates Worldwide Google AI Tools Roll Out

Freshfields would like you to know that ‘5,000 professionals firmwide now use AI tools built with Google’s Gemini models, one year into the firm’s strategic collaboration with Google Cloud’. Unlike many others, the firm has avoided going all-in with Hargora.

The Magic Circle firm, which has a large presence in the US, said that it ‘has integrated Google’s Gemini models across multiple bespoke legal solutions developed by the Freshfields Lab.’

These include:

• Dynamic Due Diligence (D3),
• Case Management Platform,
• Multi-jurisdictional Insights Platform,
• and the firm’s proprietary general AI platform,
• and it has rolled out Google NotebookLM Enterprise with CMEK (custom managed encryption keys).

They added that 2,100 staff regularly use NotebookLM Enterprise to ‘synthesize complex material and navigate large document sets more efficiently’.

And that Google Workspace has over 2,800 users. This includes Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Meet, and more. Colleagues are using Google Workspace with Gemini for meeting transcription and document summarization, and creating custom Gems for various business services and legal workflows.

In short, that’s a lot of Googleness…!

Freshfields Chief Innovation Officer, Gil Perez – who is based in California and which Legal Innovators California on June 10 and 11 in San Francisco is hoping will be a speaker there….commented: ‘A year ago, Freshfields set out to prove that AI could genuinely change how a global law firm works in everyday client delivery. Now, our team members use Gemini, NotebookLM Enterprise and Google Workspace daily, collaborating across teams with confidence, proficiency, and strong governance. This is the strong indication that we are delivering on that ambition as we continue to raise the bar for our client service.’

Lukas Treichl, Partner and Co-Head Freshfields Lab, added: ‘A year into our Google Cloud partnership, Gemini is no longer an experiment at Freshfields – it is infrastructure. Our teams and clients use it daily across the Freshfields Lab’s platforms for complex legal work spanning multiple practice areas. As we deepen this collaboration, we will continue to expand the boundaries of what AI can deliver for our clients.’

So, there you go. There’s more to life than Microsoft, Claude, and everyone else….

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