Hanson Bridgett Fully Adopts Claude AI in Legal Workflows
Hanson Bridgett fully integrates Anthropic’s Claude AI platform across legal workflows.
Why it matters: This move highlights growing trust in advanced AI models by major law firms, pushing AI deeper into legal processes and innovation.
- Hanson Bridgett, an AmLaw 200 firm with about 200 lawyers, integrates Claude AI into document review, drafting, research, and internal operations.
- The firm implements a written AI use policy with data restrictions and enterprise-grade protections.
- Anthropic released 20+ Model Context Protocol connectors and 12 legal plugins integrating Claude with platforms like Westlaw, DocuSign, Everlaw, and Harvey.
- Thomson Reuters and LexisNexis integrate Claude legal plugins to enhance their platforms, showing broader industry uptake.
Hanson Bridgett, a San Francisco-based AmLaw 200 firm, has fully adopted Anthropic's Claude AI platform, integrating it into core legal workflows such as document review, drafting, research, and internal operations. This integration aims at building long-term AI capabilities across the firm.
Laura Long, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Hanson Bridgett, said, "This is about building long-term capability across the firm, helping our attorneys and professional staff adapt thoughtfully as these tools evolve, and creating a foundation for how we continue learning and innovating over time." To support this, the firm implemented a written AI use policy emphasizing restrictions on information usage and enterprise-grade data protections.
Anthropic has been actively expanding Claude's legal functionalities, releasing more than 20 Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors and 12 plugins tailored for legal domains. These connectors facilitate Claude's seamless integration with widely used legal platforms such as Westlaw, DocuSign, Everlaw, and Harvey.
Industry leaders are also embedding Claude into their products. Thomson Reuters connected Claude with its CoCounsel Legal platform, which draws on a vast corpus of 1.9 billion Westlaw and Practical Law documents and 1.4 billion KeyCite validity signals. David Wong, Thomson Reuters’ Chief Product Officer, described CoCounsel Legal as "the fiduciary-grade system at the center of how legal work gets done." LexisNexis has likewise integrated Claude’s legal plugin suite into its Lexis+ with Protégé platform, enhancing legal research and drafting capabilities. Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO of LexisNexis Global Legal, highlighted the partnership’s value in strengthening authoritative legal workflows.
This adoption by Hanson Bridgett exemplifies a broader legal industry trend toward incorporating advanced AI language models. It reflects increasing confidence in AI’s ability to improve practice efficiency and innovation in the legal sector.
By the numbers:
- 200 lawyers — Hanson Bridgett’s firm size
- 20+ Model Context Protocol connectors — Anthropic’s integrations with legal platforms
- 1.9 billion documents — Westlaw corpus powering Thomson Reuters’ CoCounsel Legal