Source: Dentons
Dentons, Canada’s Global Law Firm, and AXL, a Canadian venture studio transforming world-class AI research into high-growth companies, have announced a strategic partnership to shape the legal industry’s next evolution with AI.
Together, Dentons and AXL will co-develop ventures that will accelerate the pace of innovation across the legal field and bring outdated workflows, pricing, access, and indeed, the very definition of legal services, into the future. Dentons also becomes the exclusive legal partner to AXL and the preferred provider to its growing portfolio of ventures, bringing legal insight into the early stages of AI innovation and commercialization.
“This partnership reflects our ongoing commitment to staying at the forefront of legal innovation and AI,” said Tim Haney, CEO of Dentons Canada. “By collaborating closely with AXL, we will unlock new models for how technology can enable us to provide exponential value to our clients through innovation.”
“We’re proud to partner with Dentons, a firm with global scale, legal sophistication, and an AI innovation roadmap that’s moving legal innovation forward,” said Dr. Daniel Wigdor, Co-Founder and CEO of AXL. “Together, we’re launching companies that will define what practical and scalable AI applications will look like in practice.”
“With AXL, we are not just offering legal services to startups – we are contributing to the formation of AI ventures from day one,” said Mike Hollinger, Partner and Toronto Leader of Dentons’ Venture Technology and Emerging Growth Companies Group. “Together, we are reimagining how legal services are delivered. This partnership puts Dentons and AXL at the center of that transformation.”
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