Build-vs-Buy

From chat windows to agent harnesses to enterprise platforms — a framework for governing AI use as it actually happens

Cleary acquired an AI company. A&O Shearman and Freshfields co-develop with AI labs and share the revenue. Latham subscribes and builds on top. Three strategies, three very different risk profiles.

Every major AI lab prices inference below cost. When the venture capital subsidizing your five-cent contract review runs out, your AI economics change whether you're ready or not.

A former Latham associate vibe-coded a Harvey clone in two weeks and open-sourced it. The tech wasn't the hard part — and that's the point. Here's what mid-size firms should learn about what legal AI vendors actually sell.

Every headline called Kirkland's $500M commitment an AI bet. The signals in the announcement — no named model, full exclusivity, value-based pricing — point to something different: an infrastructure play that happens to run AI.