Law firm · England & Wales
Freshfields
London
Freshfields is an international law firm. On 8 April 2025 it announced a strategic AI collaboration with Google Cloud. On 23 April 2026 the firm and Anthropic announced a multi-year agreement to accelerate AI co-innovation and firm-wide adoption and to develop novel AI legal workflows, described by the firm as deploying Claude across the firm globally. Through Freshfields Lab the firm says it has developed proprietary platform solutions that integrate Claude as a single, secure entry point to AI-powered workflows connected to institutional knowledge.
Innovation & AI
Public file: 2025 Google Cloud collaboration; April 2026 multi-year Anthropic agreement with firm-wide Claude deployment and co-development of legal workflows via Freshfields Lab. The 2026 announcement is operational language from the firm, not a product score.
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- Practices / functions
- Corporate / M&A, Finance / markets, Litigation, Regulatory / compliance
- Jurisdictions
- England & Wales, European Union, United States, Global
- Capabilities
- Knowledge, Transaction Management, Legal Operations
- Use cases
- Contract review, Due-diligence review, Research memo drafting
- Last checked
- 13 Sept 2026
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Key initiatives
Innovation lab · production · copilot assistant
Freshfields Lab
The 23 April 2026 announcement states that through the Freshfields Lab the firm has developed proprietary platform solutions that integrate Claude, giving every lawyer and business services professional a single, secure entry point to AI-powered workflows connected to the firm’s institutional knowledge. Gerrit Beckhaus is named as Partner and Co-Head Freshfields Lab.
Source terminology: Freshfields Lab
AI programme · production · agent
Anthropic multi-year agreement
On 23 April 2026 Freshfields and Anthropic announced a multi-year agreement to accelerate AI co-innovation and firm-wide adoption and to develop novel AI legal workflows. The firm describes this as deploying Claude across the firm globally. Over the following 12 months Freshfields and Anthropic in-house legal teams plan to collaborate on new AI workflows. Independent reporting of the same announcement records a roll-out to about 5,700 people across 33 offices and a firm-stated usage increase of about 500% in the first six weeks. Named work areas in that reporting include legal and market research, contract review, document drafting and due diligence, plus agentic workflows for multi-step legal tasks.
Source terminology: Deploying Claude Across the Firm Globally
Partnership · unclear · unclear
Google Cloud AI collaboration
Freshfields announced a strategic AI collaboration with Google Cloud on 8 April 2025. The announcement concerns legal innovation and client services; it is not, by itself, evidence of a named production workflow.
Source terminology: strategic AI collaboration
Firm Zero Framework™ capability map
Firm Zero Framework™ classifications are new.legal analysis, not source facts.
Knowledge → Knowledge Management → Institutional knowledge workflows
Original source terminology: proprietary platform solutions that integrate Claude
Transaction Management → Contract Review → Contract review
Original source terminology: novel AI legal workflows
Innovation leadership
Gerrit Beckhaus
Partner and Co-Head Freshfields Lab — Freshfields Lab; proprietary platform solutions integrating Claude
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Latest developments
New partnership · 23 Apr 2026
Freshfields and Anthropic team up to co-build AI legal workflows, deploying Claude across the firm globally
Firm announcement of a multi-year Anthropic agreement: co-innovation, firm-wide Claude deployment, Freshfields Lab platform, and planned 12-month workflow collaboration with Anthropic’s legal team.
Source ↗New partnership · 8 Apr 2025
Freshfields and Google Cloud accelerate legal innovation through strategic AI collaboration
Firm announcement of a strategic AI collaboration with Google Cloud. Collaboration headline — not, by itself, a named production workflow.
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Sources
Attributable items on file. Coverage is not a quality score.
23 Apr 2026 · official_company_record
Freshfields and Anthropic Team Up to Co-Build AI Legal Workflows, Deploying Claude Across the Firm Globally
Public file: 2025 Google Cloud collaboration; April 2026 multi-year Anthropic agreement with firm-wide Claude deployment and co-development of legal workflows via Freshfields Lab. The 2026 announcement is operational language from the firm, not a product score.
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