NY Law Firm, Cleary Gottlieb, Acquires Springbok AI
Cleary Gottlieb, a leading international law firm, announced today the acquisition of Springbok AI, an award-winning generative AI product development company focusing on technology that enhances legal service delivery.
"Cleary's innovation strategy is focused on integrating AI and data analytics into our workflows to elevate our delivery of legal services to clients," said Cleary Managing Partner Michael Gerstenzang. "The acquisition of Springbok immediately enables us to create custom AI-powered solutions—something that sets us apart from many of our competitors."
In addition to onboarding Springbok's proprietary platform, SpringLaw, the firm will welcome Victoria Albrecht, co-founder and CEO, and a team of 10 data scientists and AI engineers. Springbok was founded in 2017 and has a proven track record in creating bespoke AI builds and products.
"Cleary has never been one to follow trends – they set them," said Victoria. "While others waited to see how AI would reshape legal workflows, Cleary stood out to me as a firm that acts. The firm shares our core vision that AI technology isn't just a tool but a fundamental shift in how premium legal services will be delivered: faster, smarter, and more transparent. We're excited to bring our technology and capabilities in-house at Cleary and provide leadership in their AI journey."
The team will form Cleary's AI Acceleration team and develop custom AI builds for practices where the workflows benefit from data analytics, AI-powered summarisation, automation in data gathering, and insights on that data. The group will work directly with clients and practice groups to identify opportunities to build high-value use cases.
"We are deeply committed to client centricity. The opportunity to serve our clients in a differentiated, elevated way is core to our culture of innovation," said Ilona Logvinova, Director of Practice Innovation. "Springbok is an industry leader, and the firm's investment underscores Cleary's commitment to meeting our clients' most sophisticated needs."
Cleary's differentiated innovation strategy encompasses the award-winning e-Discovery and Litigation Technology (DLT) group, which develops and leverages AI tools to build and adapt products and processes to meet client litigation needs, ClearyX, which focuses on emerging technologies to create efficient, cost-effective transactional solutions for clients, and Practice Innovation which infuses AI technology to empower the firm's delivery of legal services.
About Cleary Gottlieb
Cleary Gottlieb is a leading international law firm with 16 offices located in major financial centres around the world that has helped shape the globalisation of the legal profession for more than 75 years. Our worldwide practice has a proven track record for innovation and providing work of the highest quality to meet the needs of our domestic and international clients.
About Springbok AI
Springbok AI is an award-winning Generative AI Management strategy and product development boutique established in 2017. Their legal-specific toolkit, the SpringLaw Suite, is an advanced platform for creating, configuring, sharing, and deploying reusable GenAI tools and prompts.
