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. While we pioneer new ways to use AI in our legal work, we are simultaneously developing novel ways of demonstrating our tools’ value to make it clear for our clients exactly when, how, and why we use AI to enhance our work.We:

• discuss proposed AI use for each phase of a matter in advance
• decide together with clients in real time whether to adjust this strategy
• provide clients with playbooks and self-scoring methods so they can see how we are integrating AI

A Firmwide Commitment to AI Adoption

We require all our lawyers and business support professionals to learn and integrate AI into their daily work. We offer frequent training and are constantly brainstorming and sharing use cases to benefit clients. To further these efforts, we established AI Ascend, a first-of-its-kind program ensuring that every lawyer at Ropes & Gray develops native AI fluency and the ability to innovate. Through training, dedicated Innovation Hours of up to 100 billable hours per year, and our TrAIlblazers track, where first-year associates spend 20% of their billable time on AI, we are equipping our teams with the ability to deliver the AI-powered solutions that drive client success.

Custom AI Tools for Legal Workflows

Our team is uniquely positioned to identify AI solutions in real time. As part of our AI task force, our chief information officer, chief of artificial intelligence strategy, practice innovation counsel, and director of technology innovation oversee the ongoing development of custom-built AI solutions and use cases. Our AI leadership team regularly advises clients on the selection, deployment, and integration of enterprise generative AI platforms and tailored solutions.