Artificial Intelligence
AT&T partners with OpenAI on legal workflows
AT&T LegalEdge partnered with OpenAI to develop legal workflows using AI, while company executives said the work was aimed at making institutional knowledge more accessible and keeping lawyers’ judgment central.
- AT&T LegalEdge said it was partnering with OpenAI on AI-enabled legal workflows.
- AT&T said LegalEdge launched in January and handled nearly 100 matters in its first six months.
- David McAtee said the project was intended to change how legal work moved through AT&T and how the company retained knowledge.
- Bill Ryan said success would be judged by quality, access to knowledge, reusable capabilities and more time for work needing experience.
- Jason Boehmig said OpenAI and AT&T were exploring how AI could help apply institutional knowledge across the business.
AT&T LegalEdge partnered with OpenAI to develop AI-enabled legal workflows. AT&T described LegalEdge as a new in-house legal agency and said it had been launched in January.
The company said the group had handled nearly 100 matters in its first six months. It also said the team had been working on knowledge management and workflow design across the AT&T Legal Department.
David McAtee said the project was about changing how legal work moved through AT&T and how the organisation kept institutional knowledge. He said the aim was to make expertise more widely available while leaving legal judgment to people.
Jason Boehmig said OpenAI and AT&T were exploring how AI could put that knowledge to use across the business. Bill Ryan said success would be judged by quality, easier access to knowledge, reusable capabilities and more capacity for work that needed experience and judgment. The article then suggested the arrangement might reduce legal spending and send less routine work to outside firms, but said that would need to be seen.
Named in this story
People
- Jason Boehmig
- OpenAI’s general manager for the legal industry who commented on the effort
- David McAtee
- AT&T’s senior executive vice president and general counsel who commented
- Bill Ryan
- AT&T’s senior vice president and chief compliance officer who commented
Companies
- OpenAI
- the AI company that was partnering with AT&T LegalEdge
- AT&T
- the telecom company that described the project and supplied quotes
Organisations
- AT&T LegalEdge
- the in-house legal group that partnered with OpenAI
How the source tells it
The piece read like a promotional announcement, with repeated executive praise and a closing speculative aside about possible cost savings and less outsourcing.
- vendor boosterism the story repeated company self-description and executive praise without independent checking
- speculation the closing section projected possible savings and less outside legal work without evidence