May 14, 2025

To buy or not to buy? For Cleary Gottlieb, acquiring an AI company was a no-brainer

Cleary Gottlieb said the addition of the Springbok team would help the firm build its AI tools.

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ABA Journal: Legal Rebels

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Ilona Logvinova

Ilona Logvinova is director of Practice Innovation at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. Ilona’s work focuses...

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Victor Li

Victor Li is the legal affairs writer for the ABA Journal. Previously he was a reporter for...

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Published:	May 14, 2025
Podcast:	ABA Journal: Legal Rebels
Category:	Legal Technology

Episode Notes

Law firms acquire or merge with one another all the time. But when it comes to technology companies, firms usually keep it in-house or enter into a partnership with an outside vendor. They rarely go ahead and just buy a tech company. So when Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton announced in March that it had acquired artificial intelligence products developers Springbok AI, it made headlines.

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