Dentons
Operator category in Lawyer Innovation Map 2026. Federated structure: each region makes its own buy/build decisions. UKIME and Europe run distinct stacks.
- Daisy (DAISY)
Proprietary, model-agnostic plug-and-play AI tool launched May 2025 across Europe and Central Asia. Provides secure AI chat, pre-set tasks (document summarisation, drafting), translation tool and a firm-policy browser.
- Dentons Helix
In-house legal team platform integrated with the OpenAI stack.
- Horizon scanner
Built in-house (early 2025) for multinational corporate clients - one user-friendly interface that draws on multiple sources to keep clients abreast of regulatory change.
- Office Hours programme
Sandbox/R&D pipeline launched April 2025 inviting legaltech companies to pitch, co-develop and test in Dentons' operational environment. Six focus areas: knowledge management; document lifecycle and matter management; communication and collaboration; document and data extraction; data analysis and information visualisation; budgeting, costs and resource management.
- ·OpenAI partnership announced 11 December 2025 - billed as one of the first direct collaborations between a global law firm and OpenAI. Early access to OpenAI's latest LLMs (often weeks before public release) plus direct engineering access via APIs.
- ·ChatGPT Enterprise rolled out firmwide to all UKIME staff in October 2025, following a March 2025 pilot that tested 25 use cases.
- ·Legora partnership announced June 2025 for Dentons Europe - collaborative AI workflows running alongside Daisy.
- ·Employment tribunal claim analysis automation among the early UKIME use cases.
- ·Governance: mandatory 'lawyer in the loop' oversight; OpenAI has no access to client data; UK data residency planned for clients requiring domestic data storage.
- ·Joined the Swiss GenAI legal benchmarking project (April 2025) alongside Bird & Bird.
- ·Rix: 'We're not looking for people with an idea. We're looking for products we can take forward immediately.'