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№ 27 · Tier 3 · Mid-Market and SpecialistOperator

Womble Bond Dickinson

CoCounsel (Thomson Reuters) - first UK firm to adopt firm-wide.

Platforms in use
Thomson Reuters CoCounselDefinelyDraftWise
Proprietary tools and programmes
  • iWomble

    In-house AI chatbot for internal policies and procedures. Nominated for FT Innovative Lawyers Awards 2024. Built on Azure OpenAI infrastructure.

  • Internal agents

    Drawing on historical data to support review exercises, decision-making, board prep (surfacing past discussions and flagging key decisions before meetings).

What is happening
  • ·Thomson Reuters CoCounsel - first UK law firm to sign up firm-wide (Jan 2025).
  • ·Definely document review. Dixon worked with Definely on Cascade product.
  • ·DraftWise AI-powered knowledge management.
  • ·Westlaw + Practical Law + HighQ client portal stack.
  • ·Dixon's 'buy first' philosophy - little appetite for in-house dev when vendors moving quickly. AI not always the answer; traditional automation often offers more value with less complexity.
  • ·Adoption nudged through unorthodox means: roleplaying scenarios for partners (e.g. archetypal 'grumpy partner') and small-group conversations.
  • ·Effectively 1,200 people involved in the firm's innovation project.
  • ·Dixon's next direction: layered systems and agentic applications on a shared, unified data layer. Showing Tactician contours from Operator base.
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