Hughes Hubbard Picks August as Firm AI Platform

Hughes Hubbard and Reed has selected August as its firmwide AI platform, deploying it across legal and business teams starting March 2026.

The move signals a growing shift in how large law firms approach AI adoption, choosing unified platforms over collections of single-purpose tools. For an Am Law 200 firm operating across four continents, the stakes of that choice are high.

The Evaluation Process

Hughes Hubbard ran a four-month evaluation before selecting August. The firm tested the platform across legal practice areas and business functions, including finance, billing, marketing, operations, and administration.

The firm was looking for a single, secure platform that could support both lawyers and business professionals. It did not want a set of narrow tools built for isolated tasks.

Neeraj Rajpal, Chief Information Officer at Hughes Hubbard, explained the firm's standard: "We have lawyers spread around the world working across transactional, litigation and regulatory matters. The bar for any new technology here is whether it can handle that range without creating more work for the people using it."