Baker McKenzie has initiated a global rollout of the legal artificial intelligence platform Legora, marking a significant step in the firm’s broader strategy to embed advanced technology across its operations.
The deployment will be carried out in phases and spans all six of the firm’s global practice groups, including transactional, banking and finance, tax, dispute resolution, employment and compensation, and commercial law, reflecting a comprehensive approach to integrating AI into core legal workflows.
With a workforce of more than 3,500 lawyers operating across 74 offices in 41 countries, the firm is positioning the adoption of Legora as a scalable transformation of its service delivery model. In its initial phase, the platform will focus on high-volume and process-driven tasks such as large-scale document review, data extraction, document comparison, and targeted search. Additional functionalities include multi-document editing, drafting and redlining, as well as checklist preparation, all of which are designed to improve efficiency and consistency in legal work.
Ben Allgrove, partner and chief innovation officer, emphasized that the firm’s strategy is built on maintaining a “multi-vendor ecosystem,” ensuring flexibility and access to a range of emerging technologies. He noted that equipping lawyers with the right tools, alongside the necessary training, is central to delivering both immediate efficiency gains and long-term improvements in service quality. While efficiency remains a current priority across the legal sector, Allgrove suggested that future competitive advantage will depend on how effectively firms leverage AI to enhance the quality of legal outcomes.
The rollout of Legora also aligns with Baker McKenzie’s ongoing investment in its applied AI practice, launched in 2021, which brings together technologists and specialist lawyers to design and implement new digital workflows. This internal capability is expected to play a key role in translating legal expertise into scalable and repeatable AI-driven solutions.
Legora’s chief executive, Max Junestrand, highlighted the collaboration between the platform’s legal engineers and the firm’s applied AI team, underscoring a model in which legal knowledge is systematically transformed into technology-enabled processes. The move comes amid intensifying competition in the legal AI market, where platforms such as Harvey AI have been actively expanding their presence among leading global law firms.
Recent developments underscore the growing momentum of AI adoption in the legal industry. Slaughter and May, a member of the UK’s Magic Circle, recently implemented Harvey AI across the firm, while Anthropic has entered the sector with a suite of AI-powered legal plugins built on its Claude technology. The company has also partnered with Freshfields to co-develop legal AI tools, further signaling a shift toward deeper collaboration between law firms and AI providers.
As top-tier firms accelerate their investment in artificial intelligence, Baker McKenzie’s global deployment of Legora reflects a broader industry transition, where technological capability is increasingly seen as integral to delivering modern legal services at scale.