Artificial Intelligence

Delivering cross-practice expertise across industries is what we do best. We have in-depth experience across the full process of AI adoption, including AI use, development, risk assessment, tool evaluation, and investment; this helps clients leverage AI for their own competitive advantage. Our AI leadership team—including senior attorneys, our Chief of AI Strategy, Chief Information Officer, Chief Strategy Officer, and technology experts—regularly advises clients on the selection, deployment, and integration of enterprise generative AI platforms such as ChatGPT Enterprise, Microsoft Copilot, Zoom AI Companion, and tailored solutions.

Recent engagements where our clients are turning to Ropes & Gray to help them seize the opportunities of AI include:

• Collaborating with private equity and asset management clients to evaluate AI tech scenarios that drive efficiency and enable the aggregation and analysis necessary for management of funds, as well as the development of proprietary AI-driven tools to create risk assessment frameworks.
• Acting as counsel to a broad range of digital health, pharmaceutical, and medical device companies, as well as hospitals and other health care providers on the various issues they face when using or developing AI-based products, for example:
  
  • Advising a leading global health care company on a multi-billion-dollar collaboration with a biotechnology partner to use AI and develop innovative treatments for obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.
  • Guiding a major biopharmaceutical company on the implementation of generative AI in clinical trials.
• Providing IP  transactions and licensing counsel for AI innovators related to collaboration and IP deals.
• Counseling on the design of AI governance programs—including policies, training, and committees—and integrating disclosure, legal hold, protective order, and ESI protocols to mitigate litigation and enforcement risk.
• Advising on leading e-discovery and AI strategies that deploy defensible e-discovery strategies that combine TAR, predictive analytics, and targeted generative AI to accelerate early case assessment and surface critical documents.

As part of our client service approach, we pair deep attorney expertise with innovative technology, delivering cutting-edge advice across all practice areas and industry sectors. Below are examples of the transformative impact our technology is delivering for our clients:

• We are testing hundreds of tools and deploying off-the-shelf legal tech solutions, including our proprietary internal chatbot, which we customize to clients’ needs and integrate into practice-specific systems to automate review, speed drafting, improve research, and deliver secure, efficient service. Our approach prioritizes data security, privacy, and ethical standards, ensuring that every AI solution meets the highest benchmarks for client protection.
• We leverage AI across a range of corporate transactions to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and strategic decision-making. AI-powered tools streamline drafting and automate the review of large volumes of contracts and documents during due diligence. By flagging potential risks and compliance issues, they accelerate transaction timelines and reduce human error.
• For smaller internal investigations and exploratory analyses, we deploy generative AI to jump‑start review, identify patterns, analyze communications, prepare chronologies, and draft initial interview and deposition outlines.
• We are also evaluating technology to streamline processes in areas immediately adjacent to large transactions, including antitrust filings and other regulatory compliance frameworks.
• Our litigation and enforcement attorneys deploy AI-enhanced research tools for case synthesis and drafting, adhering to rigorous verification protocols and compliance with court-specific AI disclosure requirements. We also maintain a nationwide generative AI court order tracker to guide compliance and inform advocacy, helping clients avoid missteps in a rapidly evolving environment.

Beyond client service delivery, we are leading the legal industry in integrating artificial intelligence into associate training and professional development. All lawyers train on a curated suite of AI tools and, through our TrAIlblazers Program, first-year associates can devote up to 20% of their billable-hour target to hands-on AI learning and workflow innovation—time that counts toward their requirement but is not billed to clients. Associates participate in “tech jams” and mentoring circles to test and scale new AI-enabled approaches across the firm. Our investment in AI literacy reflects a broader commitment: ensuring every Ropes & Gray lawyer is equipped with the skills, mindset, and technological fluency needed to serve clients with greater efficiency, creativity, and insight.