OpenAI is about to make its biggest push yet into the legal industry
Sam Altman. Jonathan Drake/Reuters OpenAI is preparing to make a more direct offering for lawyers. The company has been in talks with multiple legal software providers about introducing integrations. The new release will test whether lawyers see ChatGPT as more than a helpful personal assistant. OpenAI wants to sell large enterprises on its technology. Now, it's taking its case to law firms. The ChatGPT maker is planning to launch new integrations with third-party legal software companies, according to people familiar with the matter. An OpenAI spokesperson declined to comment. The company has been in talks with multiple legal software providers about allowing OpenAI's chatbot to plug into their tools and data sources, the people said. This way, lawyers could update a file, negotiate contracts, or search a legal database, without leaving ChatGPT. Law firms are under pressure from clients to move faster and show they're not billing associates for work that software can do. In-house legal teams are looking for ways to automate more work themselves, so they can send less to outside counsel and shrink their legal bills. That demand has produced a flood of startups addressing legal work
Sam Altman. Jonathan Drake/Reuters OpenAI is preparing to make a more direct offering for lawyers. The company has been in talks with multiple legal software providers about introducing integrations. The new release will test whether lawyers see ChatGPT as more than a helpful personal assistant. OpenAI wants to sell large enterprises on its technology. Now, it's taking its case to law firms. The ChatGPT maker is planning to launch new integrations with third-party legal software companies, according to people familiar with the matter. An OpenAI spokesperson declined to comment. The company has been in talks with multiple legal software providers about allowing OpenAI's chatbot to plug into their tools and data sources, the people said. This way, lawyers could update a file, negotiate contracts, or search a legal database, without leaving ChatGPT. Law firms are under pressure from clients to move faster and show they're not billing associates for work that software can do. In-house legal teams are looking for ways to automate more work themselves, so they can send less to outside counsel and shrink their legal bills. That demand has produced a flood of startups addressing legal work
