Using AI to solve complex business challenges
Across sectors, organizations face increasingly complex legal, regulatory and commercial challenges. We use AI thoughtfully to help clients navigate these challenges with greater speed and insight.
AI is not a silver bullet. But combined with deep legal expertise, high-quality data and well-designed workflows, it is transforming how legal services are delivered.
With nearly a decade of investment in AI, we are embedding AI at scale to help clients act with confidence and lead the shift toward more intelligent, AI agent-enabled delivery.
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How we deliver AI-enabled legal services
We deploy AI as part of an integrated delivery model that combines legal expertise, technology, and specialist capabilities to address complex client challenges and deliver better outcomes.
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Governance
Responsible AI use is fundamental to our approach. We deploy AI within a clear governance framework designed to manage risk, maintain quality, protect client confidentiality and privilege while upholding the highest standards of accountability. Our AI Principles - supported by firmwide policies, training and monitoring - guide how we deploy AI in practice.
Baker McKenzie AI Principles
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We want to lead the change
We will use AI to deliver better legal services
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We will empower our human talent
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We will be transparent
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We take governance seriously
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We will protect confidentiality
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We understand that AI is not perfect
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We want to lead the change
We want to lead the change
We understand that our clients’ needs, expectations, and operating possibilities are changing. We intend not only to adapt to this new reality, but we intend to help lead the change – enabling new ways of delivering legal expertise that create greater clarity, speed, and confidence for our clients.
We will use AI to deliver better legal services
We will use AI to improve the quality, speed and efficiency of the legal services we deliver. AI will also enable new types of legal services that are not achievable through traditional delivery models alone. We understand that this will be an evolution. We will continuously evaluate and refine our uses of AI to ensure they support excellence in client service for all commercial and pro bono clients.
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We will use AI to deliver better legal services
Technology and Talent
Delivering better legal services requires more than AI. It takes legal expertise, the right technology, high quality data and effective workflows.
We equip our lawyers and business professionals with the best-in-class tools, leveraging leading AI platforms including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft Copilot, and others, integrated into our workflows and tailored to each matter.
Our Applied AI Practice sits at the core of this capability, bringing together lawyers, data scientists, and technologists to solve complex challenges across transactions, disputes, compliance and advisory work. Our Global eDiscovery and Data Advisory (GEDA) team leverages advanced analytics and AI to large-scale data challenges, delivering fast, data-driven insights for high-stakes matters.
Training
Developing the AI-Enabled Lawyer. Building the Skills, Mindsets and Leadership for the Future of Legal Services.
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the legal profession at an unprecedented pace. At Baker McKenzie, we believe that succeeding in this new era requires more than learning how to use technology, it requires a fundamental shift in how lawyers think, work and deliver value to clients.
Through a structured learning journey that spans every stage of a professional's career, we are equipping our people to work confidently, responsibly and effectively in an AI-enabled world.
While our flagship AI program have been designed to develop the next generation of AI-enabled lawyers, the transformation extends far beyond our legal teams. AI capability building is embedded across our global workforce, ensuring that lawyers and business professionals alike can harness emerging technologies to enhance client service, drive innovation and navigate risk responsibly.
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Our approach is grounded in real-world delivery.
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Our approach
Driving faster global cyber incident response
Challenge: Organizations responding to cybersecurity incidents must quickly navigate complex, fragmented regulatory reporting obligations across jurisdictions often under intense time and reputational pressure.
Approach: Our Applied AI, Data & Cybersecurity and GEDA practices developed an AI-enabled solution that leverages legal and forensic data to rapidly identify incident-specific reporting requirements. The solution includes comprehensive modules covering 50+ US states and territories and 40+ additional jurisdictions, including the UK and EU.
Impact: Reduced advisory timelines from days to hours or minutes, while enabling earlier scenario modelling to support strategic decision-making.
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Complex transactions and due diligence at scale
Dispute strategy through advanced data analysis
Large-scale investigations and regulatory reviews
Global compliance and risk assessments
Employment and commercial advisory delivery
More importantly, we are delivering tangible outcomes for our clients. Across sectors, we are using AI to support:
We have been recognized globally for innovation, including:
Financial Times - Top 10 Most Innovative Global Law Firms of the Last 20 Years
Law.com Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law - Best Use of Artificial Intelligence
Ben Allgrove Chief Innovation Officer London +44 20 7919 1788
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We will empower our human talent
We will empower our human talent
Our people remain the core of our firm. AI will be used to augment, not replace, human judgement, creativity, and professional expertise. This will allow our people to apply their expertise with greater consistency, insight, and reach. We will invest in training our people so that they can harness the power of AI.
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We will be transparent
We will be transparent
We will be transparent with our clients, our people, the courts and other stakeholders when we use AI.
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We take governance seriously
We take governance seriously
Appropriate governance is central to our strategy. We will not allow AI to act autonomously on matters that require legal advice, professional judgement, or ethical consideration. Humans, and our leaders, will remain accountable for all the work we do, regardless of the tools we use.
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We will protect confidentiality
We will protect confidentiality
Client confidentiality is fundamental to our obligations as a profession. We will use AI in ways that maintain the highest levels of confidentiality, security, responsible data stewardship and compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
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We understand that AI is not perfect
We understand that AI is not perfect
AI is powerful, but not perfect. We recognize the limitations and will implement appropriate checks, validations and quality assurance processes that are calibrated to risk and embedded in our service delivery.
Leveraging AI to cut review time and costs
Challenge: Following a Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) by an employee in the EU, we analyzed a dataset of over 200,000 documents to identify a material subset containing personal identifying information (PII), privileged material or confidential business information within a two-week deadline.
A subset of 6,000 documents then required review to identify disclosable data, redactions, and privileged materials to comply with data protection regulations, all within three business days.
Approach: Our Data & Cybersecurity practice collaborated with GEDA team to develop a bespoke DSAR workflow leveraging Relativity aiR to identify documents meeting production criteria. Relativity analytics tools were then used to group similar documents, remove duplicative content, and exclude emails from review where appropriate.
Impact: Reduced review time, enabling the team to meet tight deadlines while minimizing costs.
Designing an AI‑enabled employment advisory service for a global tech company
Challenge: A leading global technology company faced high volumes of employment queries across 25+ jurisdictions, making it difficult to deliver consistent, timely advice at scale.
Approach: Our Applied AI team partnered with our Employment lawyers to design AI-enabled workflows drawing on Firm know-how and client-specific playbooks. These workflows generate draft advice as part of a human-in-the-loop process, ensuring consistency and quality.
Impact: Delivered 100% legal accuracy, faster turnaround and a 30% reduction in cost.
Building an AI-enabled IP Solution for strategic decision‑making
Challenge: Companies are seeking more cost-efficient ways to manage large, global IP portfolios while exploring how AI can improve outcomes.
Approach: In partnership with MaxVal, we developed our 360° IP Solution, built on Salesforce’s AI-ready enterprise platform. The solution integrates secure, intuitive technology with our global IP expertise, best-in-class workflows and AI capabilities to enable streamlined portfolio management.
Impact: Enabled more efficient portfolio management, lower costs and smarter, data-driven IP strategy.
Untangling complex IP and tech licensing for a multi‑business carve‑out
Challenge: Ahead of a strategic transaction involving the separation of multiple business units, a global technology company needed to quickly audit its IP and technology assets, including a large, disorganized portfolio of licensing agreements.
Approach: Working closely with our transactional team, our Applied AI Practice developed custom AI workflows to extract key data across the contract set. These workflows created a structured, transaction-ready view of assets, business unit mapping, in-force licenses and key licensing terms.
Impact: Reduced manual review effort by approximately 90%, freeing up client and external counsel teams to focus on higher-value aspects of the transaction.
Delivering a rapid, AI‑enabled global compliance audit
Challenge: A global professional services company needed to assess the effectiveness of its compliance programs across multiple areas. It required consistent benchmarking of risk controls, analysis of extensive stakeholder interviews and rapid remediation recommendations.
Approach: Our Applied AI Practice developed custom AI-enabled workflows to analyze interview transcripts and extract key compliance data points. These workflows surfaced risk indicators and created a structured foundation for legal analysis and reporting.
Impact: Accelerated review and synthesis cycles by weeks, improved the consistency and auditability of findings, and created a scalable global database of risk patterns.
Danielle Benecke Founder, Applied AI Practice Palo Alto +1 650 251 5927
Creating a common foundation for the future of legal practice
AI Kickstarter is our foundational program designed for all lawyers, regardless of seniority or practice area. Through a multi-week learning experience, it establishes a shared foundation for AI literacy across the Firm, covering what AI can and cannot do, how to use it responsibly, and how it can enhance client service.
Our Flagship AI Program
AI Kickstarter
AI Accelerator
AI Leader
Beyond Training
AI Kickstarter
AI Accelerator
AI Leader
Beyond Training
Developing the next generation of AI-enabled lawyers
AI Accelerator is an immersive, in-person program that brings together high-performing lawyers from across our global network. Participants develop advanced AI, innovation and design thinking capabilities that enable them to redesign legal workflows, reimagine legal service delivery and help shape the future of legal services as AI and emerging agentic technologies transform how legal work is performed and delivered. Participants are challenged to rethink traditional ways of working, unlock new opportunities for efficiency and quality, and develop innovative approaches to solving complex client challenges.
More than a training program, our AI Accelerator cultivates a global community of innovators who are reimagining how legal services are designed, delivered and experienced by clients. Graduates become AI-enabled lawyers equipped to drive innovation and lead transformational change within client engagements and across the Firm.
AI Kickstarter
AI Accelerator
AI Leader
Beyond Training
Leading legal teams in an AI-enabled future
AI Leader is a program designed specifically for our partners and senior leaders. As AI becomes increasingly embedded in legal work, effective leadership requires new capabilities, governance frameworks and approaches to supervising, developing and empowering people in an AI-enabled environment. This program equips leaders to confidently oversee AI-enabled delivery, manage risk, maintain quality standards, uphold professional judgment, and foster a culture of innovation, accountability and responsible adoption.
AI Kickstarter
AI Accelerator
AI Leader
Beyond Training
At Baker McKenzie, we see AI capability development as an ongoing professional journey rather than a one-time learning event. From trainees to partners, and across our business professional community, we are embedding technology fluency, innovation and responsible AI practices into the way we work every day. This ensures that AI capability development becomes part of the professional DNA of the Firm, rather than a standalone learning initiative. Our goal is not simply to teach people how to use AI. It is to develop professionals who can combine human expertise, sound judgment and emerging technologies to deliver exceptional outcomes for clients in a rapidly changing world.
Because the future belongs to AI-enabled professionals… and we are building them today!
Learn more about our AI principles.
ben.allgrove@bakermckenzie.com
danielle.benecke@bakermckenzie.com