AI Partner for General Counsel
Increase legal capacity, not headcount.
In-house legal teams are being asked to support more of the business, manage increasing volumes of work and navigate growing regulatory and risk requirements, often without a corresponding increase in headcount.
AI creates an opportunity to rethink how legal work gets done.
First AI works with General Counsel and in-house legal teams to identify where AI can create real value, transform legal workflows and build the skills, governance and capability needed to adopt AI with confidence.
We work with organisations including Legal & General, helping in-house teams explore how AI can become part of the way legal work gets done.
Why AI in In-House Legal Is Different
Legal teams need to increase capacity while maintaining the quality, confidentiality and professional judgement their business depends on.
We understand that:
Legal teams are supporting growing businesses with finite resources
Increasing workloads can put pressure on capacity and external legal spend
Confidentiality, accuracy, security and professional judgement are non-negotiable
Legal teams need AI to work within existing systems, processes and ways of working
AI adoption needs to create measurable value, not simply more tools for lawyers to learn
General Counsel need confidence that AI is being used responsibly and governed appropriately
That's why we don't start with the technology.
We start with the work.
We identify where time is being spent, where processes are creating friction and where AI can genuinely improve the way the legal function operates.
What We Offer
Five ways we help in-house legal teams make AI operational:
AI Strategy & Opportunity
Identify where AI can create the greatest value across your legal function.
- AI readiness and opportunity assessments
- Workflow and process mapping
- High-value use-case identification
- Prioritisation based on value, feasibility and risk
- Practical roadmap from experimentation to implementation
AI Adoption
Turn AI tools into practical capability across your legal team.
- Microsoft Copilot and AI training for lawyers
- Role-specific prompts and workflows
- Practical coaching and hands-on support
- AI champions and internal capability building
- Ongoing adoption and optimisation
Workflow Transformation
Redesign legal work around what AI can now do. We help teams rethink processes including:
- Contract review, drafting and summarisation
- Legal research and knowledge retrieval
- Internal legal queries and self-service
- Policies, board papers and reporting
- Matter and document management
- Due diligence and document review
- Legal administration and repetitive tasks
The focus isn't simply on automating individual tasks. It's on changing how the work gets done.
AI Agents & Automation
Build practical AI solutions for high-value legal workflows. Our AI Engineers can develop and implement:
- Bespoke AI agents
- Document and knowledge retrieval solutions
- Contract and clause analysis workflows
- Automated review and summarisation
- AI-powered internal knowledge solutions
- Integrations with existing systems and workflows
We use the right technology for the right task, from Microsoft AI and Copilot to specialist legal AI tools and bespoke solutions.
Governance & AI Capability
Give your legal team the confidence to adopt AI safely and sustainably. We help establish practical approaches to:
- AI governance and policy
- Data protection and confidentiality
- Security and access controls
- Human oversight and accountability
- AI risk management
- Responsible use of agents and automation
Our AI Adoption Managers and Agent Engineers work alongside your team to deliver projects while building internal capability.
From AI Opportunity to Operational AI
Whether you're just starting to explore AI or already have tools in place, we help you move from experimentation to practical, measurable outcomes.
Discover
Understand where your legal team spends time, identify pain points and prioritise the opportunities with the greatest potential value.
Transform
Redesign workflows around AI, automation and agents - focusing on better ways of working rather than simply adding technology to existing processes.
Deliver
Build and implement practical solutions, from Copilot workflows and bespoke agents to automation and specialist AI tools.
Adopt
Give your people the skills, confidence and support to use AI effectively in their everyday work.
Govern
Put the right policies, guardrails, ownership and human oversight in place to enable AI to scale responsibly.
Additional AI Capacity, When You Need It
Not every legal function needs, or has the resources to build a dedicated internal AI team.
First AI provides the additional expertise and delivery capacity needed to move AI initiatives forward.
Our AI Adoption Managers and Agent Engineers work alongside your people, bringing practical AI expertise while helping build knowledge and capability within your organisation.
We don't just tell you what you could do with AI.
We work with your people to make it happen.
Trusted by In-House Legal Teams
First AI works with organisations including Legal & General to help teams build AI capability and explore how AI can transform the way work gets done.
We're a Microsoft AI Cloud Partner and Solutions Partner for Modern Work, combining Microsoft expertise with hands-on AI strategy, transformation, adoption and delivery.
Our approach is designed for highly regulated organisations where confidentiality, governance, security are paramount and human oversight matters.
Why General Counsel Choose First AI
- We start with the workflow, challenges and pain points, not the technology.
- We combine strategy with hands-on delivery.
- We bring AI expertise into your team, rather than working from the outside.
- We build capability, not dependency.
- We help you move from AI experimentation to measurable business value.
- We can work with you on a project basis or as a long term AI partner.
Ready to Increase Legal Capacity?
AI should remove work, not lawyers.
First AI helps in-house legal teams increase capacity, transform how work gets done and deliver greater value to the wider business, safely, responsibly and never excluding the human oversight and expertise.
Ready to explore where AI could create value across your legal function?