UK top 20 law firm DWF has announced that it will make Microsoft Copilot available to every colleague globally, becoming one of the first law firms to do so. It follows the announcement by Clifford Chance in February that it is deploying Copilot and Viva Suite for its global workforce.
Copilot for Microsoft 365 helps users improve their productivity by performing a variety of everyday tasks across the Microsoft 365 suite. This includes summarising emails, identifying actions or drafting replies, creating first drafts of project plans or presentation templates, analysing data sets and providing transcripts or key outputs from Teams meetings.
The deployment of Copilot is the latest development in DWF’s Digital Transformation programme, which also includes the roll out of a new case management system, ShareDo.
An initial cohort of 300 DWF colleagues have been trialling Copilot since January 2024. We’re told that the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, both in terms of the intuitive nature of the technology and the outputs it generates.
Matt Glenville, chief operating officer at DWF, said: “This is an exciting development for DWF which will help our colleagues to save time, be more productive and work more effectively. We believe that giving our colleagues access to Copilot as standard, whatever their career level, business area or location, will be a differentiator for us and help us to attract and retain the best.
“Fee earners will have the opportunity to focus more of their time on delivering the exceptional service our clients expect. It will help us to make further improvements in our business-as-usual activities and is the latest step forward towards realising the capabilities of AI across our business.”
DWF was previously listed on the London Stock Exchange but was acquired and taken private in October 2023 by private equity group Inflexion.