One Planet One Team
What we advise clients on:
Decarbonization is the world’s most pressing challenge and most dynamic market.
Support a culture of innovation?
Practice in a GenAI-adjacent way?
Extract better data and introduce better processes?
Partner with the legaltech community?
Collaborate with our clients?
The answers have never been more inspiring.
Innovating begins with a fresh set of questions. How can we:
Top 3 Most Innovative Law Firm in North America 8 consecutive years
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.
Innovation @Orrick
Financial Times
Most Digital Law Firm 2020 & 2023
Support a culture of innovation?
Support a culture of innovation?
Support a culture of innovation?
Support a culture of innovation?
Partner with the legal tech community?
Innovating begins with a fresh set of questions. How can we:
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.
A Culture of Innovation
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.
GenAI-Adjacent Practice
: We help early stage venture-backed companies scale by offering one of the most valuable free resources in the market. It features 50+ automated forms and document generators, hundreds of FAQs and articles, and personalized business coaching sessions.
Better Data & Better Process
Collaborating with Clients
Partnering with the Legaltech Community
Our team works on every technology in the market, bringing experience in traditional assets (oil & gas, nuclear and transmission) that are transforming and re-emerging to meet the low-carbon future and applying that knowledge to rapidly emerging technologies. Our transactions volume enables us to provide our clients with state-of-the-market advice globally. Our Chambers Band 1 rankings across power, renewables, infrastructure and energy transition are a measure of our quality and market reputation.
Every kind of energy asset.
A Culture of Innovation
GenAI-Adjacent Practice
Better Process/ Better Data
Collaborating with Clients
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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.
Our Innovation team meets with dozens of clients each month to help them benchmark and identify emerging solutions to empower in-house teams.
Our Innovation team includes dozens of lawyers and legal technologists who collaborate with our client service teams.
Orrick Analytics, our in-house ASLP, supports 1,500+ projects annually, including deposition preparation, damages analysis, transactional due diligence and contract lifecycle management.
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.
Regulatory Trackers: We offer state and federal regulatory trackers in fast-changing areas such as , and , and readiness assessment tools in many areas.
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.
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.
Through our Legaltech Initiative, we invest in companies such as DraftWise, Priori and AltaClaro. We also collaborate with The LegalTech Fund.
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.
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Top 10 for Tech & Innovation
Vault
2021-2024
Top 10 for Use of Tech
AmLaw Midlevel Associates Survey
2023-2024
Our Innovation team includes dozens of lawyers and legal technologists who collaborate with our client service teams.
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Orrick Tech Studio
Orrick Tech Studio: We help early stage venture-backed companies scale by offering one of the most valuable free resources in the market. It features 50+ automated forms and document generators, hundreds of FAQs and articles, and personalized business coaching sessions.
Through The Observatory, 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.
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