Innovation
@Orrick

Delivering transformative legal solutions for innovators requires more than outstanding legal advice. It demands innovation in service delivery. We are working in new ways to enhance the quality and efficiency of our advice and the experience of our clients and our teams.

Top 10 for Innovation for 9 years in a row

2-time Most Digital Law Firm

Financial Times

Innovating begins with a fresh set of questions. How can we:

Support a culture of innovation?

Practice in a GenAI-adjacent way?

Extract better data and introduce better processes?

Collaborate with our clients?

Partner with the legaltech community?

The answers have never been more inspiring.

A Culture of Innovation

We’ve been innovating in service delivery since we established the first insourcing center in a law firm in 2002 – our Global Operations & Innovation Center. Since then, we’ve earned 120+ Financial Times Innovation awards for our client advice and the way we operate.

Our Innovation team includes dozens of lawyers and legal technologists who collaborate with our client service teams.

Orrick Labs, our internal skunkworks, builds solutions we cannot find in the marketplace – including 150+ solutions over the past 18 months. Orrick Labs has also helped our clients adopt bespoke data, matter management and workflow solutions.

Top 10 for Tech 
& Innovation 

Vault 

2021-2024

Top 10 for Use 
of Tech 

AmLaw Midlevel Associates Survey

2023-2024

Orrick Analytics, our in-house ALSP, 
supports 1,500+ projects annually, including 
deposition preparation, damages analysis, 
transactional due diligence and contract lifecycle management.

Our Digital Transformation team focuses on enhancing our performance and client service through data, AI and other hyper productivity tools, and by reimagining staffing strategies and processes.

Digital fluency is a fundamental competency for our team. We inspire it through a curriculum of 40 training programs annually, creditable Innovation Time, and support for lawyer-led solutions.

GenAI-Adjacent Practice

We are pioneering the safe and responsible use of AI. Use cases include contract and deal document drafting, due diligence, discovery, legal research and automation. Our teams draw on our in-house platform – Orrick.ai – as well as leading solutions such as Harvey, DraftWise and dozens of other tools.

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  : We help early
stage venture-backed companies scale
by offering one of the most valuable
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generators, hundreds of FAQs and articles, and personalized business coaching sessions.

Better Data &
Better Process 

Orrick Tech Studio

Our M&A Playbook: Our teams collaborate on a bespoke tech platform that supports efficient execution, deal term extraction and post-acquisition integration. The impact? We’ve captured 2,000+ market data insights, automated 25 deal templates, and reduced time spent on deal signing and closing by 50%.

Matter Management: Our bespoke case management platform automates the intake process, efficiently manages case and deal files, and enhances collaboration. The impact? We’ve reduced time spent on gathering information by 15 minutes per document and data entry by 75% while dramatically decreasing data entry errors.

Contract Automation: Our automation service, Wheelhouse, standardizes contracts and other templated documents. It has generated ~48,500 documents for our teams.

Regulatory Trackers: We offer state and federal regulatory trackers in fast-changing areas such as     ,   and  , and readiness assessment tools in many areas.

Pay Equity

AI

Online Safety

Collaborating 
with Clients

Our Innovation team meets with dozens of clients each month to help them benchmark and identify emerging solutions to empower in-house teams.

Our team has trained 35+ legal departments and 1,400+ in-house lawyers on GenAI. We host experimental GenAI labs and collaborate on industry events, such as Capital Factory, SXSW and TLTF Summit.

Partnering with the Legaltech Community

Our innovation strategy is guided by input from some of the best in the business, including an Orrick Innovation Advisory Board comprising senior leaders from the legaltech sector, Fortune 500 and the academic community.

Through   , a tracker 
we share with the market, we monitor 
650+ legaltech tools, 300 of them 
AI-enabled. Our team uses a 
proprietary version of this tracker to 
identify the best tools for specific client matters. We also vet about 100 new tools a year.

The Observatory

Through our Legaltech Initiative, we invest in companies such as DraftWise, Priori and AltaClaro. We also collaborate with The LegalTech Fund.

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