Freshfields Partners With Anthropic to Build AI Legal Tools

Global law firm Freshfields has signed a multi-year agreement with Anthropic to deploy Claude across its 33 offices and co-develop AI-powered legal workflows, announced April 23, 2026.

The deal marks one of the largest firm-wide AI deployments in the legal industry, giving 5,700 Freshfields employees access to a frontier AI model for daily client work.

Rapid Adoption

Freshfields rolled out Claude through its proprietary internal AI platform, the Freshfields Lab. Within the first six weeks of deployment, usage increased by approximately 500 percent.

Thousands of employees now use the platform daily across all practice groups and business services. The firm operates across 33 offices globally.

Scope of the Deal

The agreement covers the full Claude suite of products and frontier AI models across every office and department. Freshfields will also receive early access to future Anthropic models and tools as they become available.

Over the next 12 months, the legal teams of both organizations plan to work together to define new AI workflows. These workflows will use Anthropic tools and solutions to deliver legal services directly to Anthropic as a client.