Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Our approach to AI

Simmons & Simmons are experts in artificial intelligence law, regulation and policy, and have spent the last seven years building an international practice with deep industry knowledge.

Our Simmons AI Group works closely with our internal LLM / Generative AI team, led by Simmons Wavelength (a team of legal design, engineering and data science specialists who are responsible for implementing our own generative AI offering – Percy).

We are therefore able to call upon specialist, technical AI expertise to provide unique practical insights, complementing our AI law advice.

AI Group

Simmons has a thriving AI law practice. Our AI Group comprises c.100 lawyers and non-lawyers (including data scientists and AI engineers), across different practice areas and jurisdictions.

AI Toolkit

See the types of services we offer clients in our AI Toolkit, which reflects the range of experience our AI lawyers and engineers have advising clients on AI legal, regulatory, and governance issues.

EU AI Act

The EU AI Act is a comprehensive, sector-agnostic EU regulation which applies directly in Member States. Every organisation that uses or deals with AI in some way will need to consider the possible impact of the EU AI Act.

Our dedicated EU AI Act webpage contains important information on the Act, as well as our key resources and contact details.

Wavelength

Wavelength is the legal engineering arm of Simmons & Simmons, designed to enhance our legal services through technological innovation. It focuses on applying advanced data science, artificial intelligence, and other cutting-edge technologies to streamline and improve legal processes. Wavelength aims to make legal advice more efficient, accessible, and effective for clients by integrating these technologies into our practices.

AI Readiness

Our AI Readiness services bring together the experience of our global Generative AI division, the regulatory expertise of our AI Group and the legal engineering capability of our Wavelength team to enable in-house teams to successfully adopt AI.

Our resources

We are one of the leading AI law firms

Our AI Group comprises c.100 lawyers and non-lawyers (including data scientists and AI engineers), across different practice areas and jurisdictions.

• We have AI law expertise and experience across our offices in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. We advise clients across the tech, finance and healthcare sectors, including governments.

• Members of our AI Group are contributing authors to the leading AI law textbooks: Artificial Intelligence Law and Regulation (Elgar, 2022), Artificial Intelligence in Finance (Elgar, 2023) and the next edition of The Law of Artificial Intelligence (Sweet & Maxwell) (forthcoming).

• Members of our AI Group are regularly invited to speak at AI conferences. They have previously spoken on behalf of the United Nations and at the prestigious CogX AI conference.

• Our ground-breaking work on advising on the world’s first AI Explainability Statement to receive input from a regulator (the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office) was shortlisted at the Legal Innovation Awards 2022 and the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Awards Europe 2022.

• Through our Wavelength offering, we have a team of data scientists who have experience of developing AI models (LLMs in particular) and are therefore able to offer a practical insight on AI.

• Our Global AI Lead, Minesh, is Chair of the Society for Computers and Law (SCL) AI Group and Chair of the City of London Law Society (CLLS) AI Committee and considered a leading AI lawyer in the market.