We combine deep legal, technical and regulatory expertise to support your legal team at every stage of your AI journey – from AI curious to AI native.
Charting a course through the legal AI frontier
AI is transforming the legal function. Tools like ChatGPT, Copilot and Claude are already embedded in legal workflows and they are redefining how legal services are delivered.
But real adoption goes beyond implementation. It means using AI securely, deploying it strategically and building the foundations for what comes next.
Wherever your team stands today, we'll help you move forward with confidence.
Our team
The legal AI maturity mountain: where is your team?
Gaining clarity on where you stand currently is a key first step for any AI journey.
Our strategic framework categorises legal teams into four distinct stages of AI adoption – The Day-Tripper, The Hiker, The Mountaineer and The Explorer – to help you identify your starting point and track your progress in moving from basic curiosity to AI-native workflows.
Find your basecamp and take our quick diagnostic test before charting the path forward.
Our services
Whether you're laying the groundwork or scaling advanced AI adoption, our Applied AI team supports legal teams at every stage - guiding you through parts of the journey such as thoughtful process design, workflow integration and document modularisation.
1. Identifying use cases for AI
Working out where AI can genuinely help can be difficult for in house teams, especially where time and capacity are limited. Many teams don’t have the bandwidth to step back and run a full AI adoption programme.
Our Applied AI team helps teams identify practical, high value use cases and put prompts and workflows in place so AI is easier to use in day to day work. This is often the most effective place to start: low effort, easy to roll out and quick to deliver results.
Explore the benefits of a use-case-led approach
→ Combat analysis paralysis
Turn "we need AI" into a specific, actionable roadmap with a clear starting line.
→ Protect limited bandwidth
Ensure lean teams focus only on high-value tasks that move the needle, rather than getting distracted by "shiny object" features.
→ Guarantee measurable ROI
Create clear benchmarks to prove value to the board and the wider business.
→ Enable strategic re-alignment
Automate the routine work, freeing up your senior lawyers to focus on high-stakes strategic priorities.
→ De-risk innovation
Provide a low-investment, high-reward entry point where the cost of failure is virtually zero, but the speed to value is immediate.
2. AI adoption readiness
A journey is only as successful as the preparation behind it. You can’t automate a process that hasn't been mapped and you can’t train AI on data that isn’t available.
Our team can help you lay the groundwork required to enable effective adoption AI.
Explore how we partner with you
→ Process mapping & workflow design
We map your team's workflows from instruction to execution, identifying exactly where AI will provide the most leverage and where manual expertise is non-negotiable. The outcome is a digital blueprint of your legal delivery model.
- AI benefit: Ensures AI is integrated into your daily workflows from day one.
→ Templates & playbooks
We turn institutional knowledge - preferred positions, standard clauses, fallback language - into something structured, repeatable and usable, whether by a junior lawyer, an external adviser or an AI tool.
- AI benefit: AI tools are only as good as the information given. Well-structured playbooks enable everything from document automation to AI agents.
→ Clause libraries & decision trees
We design curated banks of approved clauses tagged with context - when to use, what it replaces, conditions and dependencies. We also build decision trees mapping judgment calls within review or approval processes.
- AI benefit: Critical for AI-assisted document evaluation, negotiation, and workflow automation.
→ Document modularisation
We identify related concepts across your document sets and assign unique identifiers to ensure consistency - creating a dynamic knowledge graph that maps how information connects throughout your organisation.
- AI benefit: Creates a platform-agnostic foundation for automated assembly, ensuring long-term data integrity and compliance.
3. Implementing new technologies
If you have identified a need or use case and want to match it to a technology solution, such as an AI agent, we can help. We are technology-agnostic so you can be confident that we will offer an objective, evidence-based service. We will also help you understand and assess key risk areas when evaluating any new AI tool.
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→ What are AI agents?
AI agents are sophisticated computer programs designed to perform tasks autonomously. Unlike traditional AI that responds to prompts, AI agents can work independently. If you give the agent a goal, it will determine how to achieve it, breaking down complex tasks into steps, using different tools and making decisions along the way without guidance at every step.
AI agents can handle time-consuming tasks, such as agreement negotiation, governance and compliance navigation, work intake and transaction management and closing - freeing your legal team to focus on more strategic work.
→ Agentic AI-powered NDA review
NDAs are high volume and low complexity but handling them can still be time-consuming. Drafting from scratch, checking the right template is being used, reviewing counterparty paper line by line, managing rounds of redlines over email. It's exactly the kind of work that should be automated, and now it can be.
The Simmons NDA Agent is an AI-powered assistant that reviews, drafts and amends NDAs directly from your inbox. No new platform to learn. No login. Just email.
→ Creating bespoke tools
Our team is often commissioned by clients to support the development of bespoke AI tools.
Working closely with in-house or contracted development teams, we lead on business requirements, solution design, testing, user training and implementation – ensuring successful delivery of tailored solutions.
4. Building for the future
As AI increasingly influences how work is done, legal teams will need to think carefully about how people and technology work together, how skills are developed over time and how knowledge is shared across the team.
We work with teams to not only implement new technologies, but also to build the skills, behaviours and confidence needed to drive genuine, lasting change.
Our Future of Work interactive sessions help your team prepare for what lies ahead.
Explore our programmes
→ Beyond automation: AI and the future of legal work
AI is already transforming the legal profession. By 2040, GenAI, AI agents and robotics will be deeply integrated into the workplace.
This session explores key questions such as the role of agentic AI in future legal teams, legal operations and rewarding agility, risk management and AI-human collaboration.
→ Leading through legacy: transforming legal teams
In-house legal teams will face a dramatically different landscape shaped by exponential technological advancements, global power shifts and climate impacts.
The challenge will be guiding teams through this period of change, from incentivising progress to building trust and cultural readiness.
This session explores in-house teams of the future and the leadership needed to meet the complex challenges of a changing regulatory environment.
→ Risk-based talent: building the legal team of 2040
Legal teams of the future will see multidisciplinary collaboration becoming the norm, with lawyers working alongside technologists, data analysts and project managers. Teams will be diverse, inclusive and hybrid-ready, capable of adapting to global challenges and opportunities.
This session explores the changes to legal ecosystems - including the redesign of talent strategies – needed to achieve global hybrid-readiness.
→ Bridging generations: unlocking legal talent and AI collaboration
By 2028, Generation Alpha (‘Gen A’) will join the legal profession, creating a five-generation workforce and bringing an innate digital-first thinking that will transform how legal teams operate.
How can we harness this generational advantage while bridging the experience gap? What new strategies will drive sustainable multi-generational collaboration across diverse legal teams?
This interactive session challenges stereotypes, rethinks talent approaches and explores the intersection of people, technology, and leadership for the future of law.
5. Experiential training and targeted upskilling
Designed specifically for legal teams, our Prompt & Conquer Programme initiative is more than just an AI training programme. It’s a roadmap to confidently integrating AI into practice. Whether you’re looking for a quick, high-impact introduction or a deeper dive into advanced applications, Prompt & Conquer offers four tailored pathways to meet your needs.
Explore our offerings
→ Essentials workshop
A concise, hands-on session to build immediate awareness, foundational prompting skills and practical next steps. Ideal as a first exposure to AI in legal practice.
→ AI academy
A multi-session journey exploring real-world legal use cases, advanced prompting techniques and strategies to embed AI into everyday workflows across the team.
→ Flying with Copilot
A focused one-hour session dedicated to understanding Microsoft Copilot and unlocking its full potential for legal, regulatory, and compliance teams.
→ Hack your day with GenAI
A high-energy 90-minute session showcasing practical, real-world examples of how legal professionals use AI to streamline daily tasks and achieve quick wins.
Get in touch
We’re not consultants guessing at your pain points. We're lawyers, solutions engineers and data scientists who've lived them. Tell us where you are on your journey and we'll help you chart the path forward.
Key contacts
If you have any questions, contact a member of the Applied AI team for assistance:
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