Clifford Chance Innovates Legal Practice with Microsoft Copilot and Azure OpenAI
Global law firm Clifford Chance is taking its digital transformation journey to the next level. As one of the first organisations globally, to deploy both Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Viva Suite at scale across its entire workforce. The firm’s private and secured AI tool, Clifford Chance Assist, was developed on Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI platform and rolled out after extensive trials with over 1800 users across operations and practice areas. The rollout is governed by a global AI Principles & Policy framework that requires client consent where appropriate and lawyer validation of AI outputs.
- Organization
- Clifford Chance
- Industry
- Legal
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Published
- February 2024
Reported outcomes
Strategic outcomes
Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks
- Customer
- Clifford Chance
- Provider
- Microsoft
- Maturity
- Scaled Production
- Linked source
- Microsoft UK Stories
As one of the first organisations globally, to deploy both Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Viva Suite at scale across its entire workforce
Primary read
Use case focus
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- 1Legal workflow automation
- 2Employee productivity
- 3Collaboration assistants
- Automate routine legal and business operations tasks
- Improve productivity and accelerate client delivery
- Enable secure firm-wide AI adoption
- Deployed Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Viva Suite at scale
- Built a private AI tool, Clifford Chance Assist, on Azure OpenAI
- Used trials with over 1800 users to validate use cases and guide rollout
- Greater productivity
- Faster turnaround
- Increased client satisfaction
- Improved accessibility for global teams
- Automation of routine tasks
Architecture
Clifford Chance built a private and secured AI tool, Clifford Chance Assist, on Azure OpenAI, then rolled out Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Viva Suite at scale across its workforce following extensive user trials.
Sources & evidence1
- Customer explicitly identified
- Deployment status explicitly supported
- Primary source available
- Technical implementation details available
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