AI for law firms and in-house legal teams.
We run firm-wide AI enablement for law firms and in-house teams, fitted to how each one works, to speed up their use of AI. Two of our founders are lawyers, one of them a former litigator and general counsel at a tech company, so privilege, professional conduct, and what counts as competent use of AI are part of how we work.
A 30-minute conversation with a partner, with no commitment.
A national public finance law firm · An AmLaw 100 law firm
AI and professional responsibility
In-house clients are asking their law firms how they use AI on client matters, whether rates will come down, and whether the firm’s models train on client data. Inside the firms, some lawyers are still learning to use the firm’s AI tool for simple tasks, some use their own shadow-AI tools, and some use the tools without understanding the costs: low-quality, unverified output, legal and factual hallucinations, and reputational risk.
In-house legal teams are now getting enterprise AI tools and quickly seeing what they can do. Many need time and help to learn to build AI solutions themselves, and CLEs alone won’t move a team up the AI maturity scale. These teams also expect their outside counsel spend to change in shape, amount, or both.
Privileged information can leak
Client details pasted into a public AI tool can end up training someone else’s model on your privileged information, and there’s rarely a way to undo that.
AI can be confidently wrong
AI models produce confident answers whether or not they are right. A fabricated fact or citation in a filing can lead to sanctions.
The attorney of record owns every error
The technology carries none of the malpractice exposure.
AI-native firms are competing for the work
AI-native law firms offer AI-enabled legal services and are going after work that used to go to larger firms.
Shadow AI is already in use
Attorneys use AI tools on client work that their firm hasn’t approved.
Clients are grading firms on AI
Ford’s general counsel wrote publicly that the automaker’s internal AI-driven productivity gains already exceed what it sees from outside counsel, and that Ford will expand relationships with firms that innovate quickly while curtailing ones that lag (Bloomberg Law, June 2026).
In-house teams face privilege questions
In-house lawyers are asked to resolve work-product and privilege issues raised by AI, often without a clear view of how the tools work.
How we work with legal organizations
Any of these three services can come first.
Training and Enablement
AI fluency training and weekly live AI advisory, for a profession that has been slow to take up new technology.
See Training and EnablementStrategy and Consulting
We map workflows and use cases to bring advanced AI into attorney best practices, fit AI to the revenue, cost, and operating models of law firms and in-house teams, and provide fractional AI leadership.
See Strategy and ConsultingAI Engineering
Compliance-grade tools, such as a contract-extraction system for continuing-disclosure review, now being built to run on locked-down attorney laptops with little work from IT.
See AI EngineeringWho we serve inside legal
Law firms
Firm-wide AI rollouts across largely autonomous practice groups, each with very different workflows.
In-house counsel and legal departments
General counsel offices using AI for contract review, HR advising, policy drafting, vendor evaluation, IP development, and legal operations, while handling new requirements on AI platform use, work product, and attorney-client privilege.
Contract and document teams
Procurement, contracts, and operations teams read agreements every day, often before legal does. We help them run a first pass against their playbook so deals and vendor agreements move as fast as the business needs.
Work we’ve done for clients
A national public finance law firm
The firm had just rolled out Claude Enterprise and wanted Claude-specific training and enablement to get people using it. We ran firm-wide AI fluency training, then weekly live coaching. That kept adoption going, turned up new uses for Claude skills and projects in the firm’s transactional practice, and pointed to areas for future efficiency pilots. We are also working on a compliance-grade contract-extraction engagement covering 1,500+ contracts. The firm introduced Itasca to its own staff this way: “Founded by two lawyers, combining legal grounding with deep experience in AI, data, and technology.”
An AmLaw 100 law firm
The firm had Harvey and knew the tool alone wasn’t enough. It engaged us for lawyer-specific AI training, then AI working sessions and office hours on each lawyer’s own questions and use cases.
Frequently asked questions
We build AI around your professional obligations.
In a 30-minute briefing, we’ll talk through where AI fits your practice and how we’d help you adopt it responsibly.
You’ll talk with a partner, and there’s no commitment.