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Big Law Leverages Buyers Position to Influence AI Development to Suit Their Needs

In the AI edition of the classic "build versus buy" dilemma, some marquee firms have opted to leverage their position as the largest buyers of legal tech to influence vendor development of AI-powered services to suit their needs.

8 minute read June 01, 2024 at 12:03 AM
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Justin Henry
Big Law Leverages Buyers Position to Influence AI Development to Suit Their Needs

Based on all the recent hires of data scientists and machine learning engineers in Big Law in the last month, you might think the largest law firms fancy themselves software engineers, but you'd only be half right.

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