{"id":155929,"date":"2026-07-07T15:06:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/07\/biglaws-ai-partnership-wars-have-officially-begun\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T15:06:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:06:40","slug":"biglaws-ai-partnership-wars-have-officially-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/07\/biglaws-ai-partnership-wars-have-officially-begun\/","title":{"rendered":"Biglaw\u2019s AI Partnership Wars Have Officially Begun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s the splashiness of the announcement. I\u2019ve heard from people at Kirkland\u2019s peer firms in the private equity area that they feel they need to respond somehow.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think some other firm will feel threatened enough that they also need to do a landmark announcement, whether it\u2019s with OpenAI, Anthropic, or someone else.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Esther Chiang<\/a>, SmartEsq founder and former partner at Paul Hastings and Kirkland, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, concerning the wave of partnership announcements being made between Biglaw firms and legal AI providers. Firms like Kirkland & Ellis, Freshfields, and Debevoise & Plimpton have recently inked highly publicized deals with AI tech firms like Palantir, Anthropic, and Legora, respectively. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Biglaw\u2019s AI Partnership Wars Have Officially Begun<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s the splashiness of the announcement. I\u2019ve heard from people at Kirkland\u2019s peer firms in the private equity area that they feel they need to respond somehow.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think some other firm will feel threatened enough that they also need to do a landmark announcement, whether it\u2019s with OpenAI, Anthropic, or someone else.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0, SmartEsq founder and former partner at Paul Hastings and Kirkland, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, concerning the wave of partnership announcements being made between Biglaw firms and legal AI providers. Firms like Kirkland & Ellis, Freshfields, and Debevoise & Plimpton have recently inked highly publicized deals with AI tech firms like Palantir, Anthropic, and Legora, respectively. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. It\u2019s the splashiness of the announcement. I\u2019ve heard from people at Kirkland\u2019s peer firms in the private equity area that they feel they need to respond somehow. I think some other firm will feel threatened enough that they also need to do a landmark announcement, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":155930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Staci-Zaretsky-TvlasV.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}