{"slug": "google-is-taking-on-anthropic-and-openai-in-the-legal-ai-race", "title": "Google is taking on Anthropic and OpenAI in the legal AI race", "summary": "Google on Tuesday unveiled Gemini Enterprise for Legal, a suite of AI tools and agents for law firms, positioning itself as a central hub for legal work and competing with Anthropic and OpenAI. The tools, developed with input from attorneys at Cleary Gottlieb and Freshfields, enable contract review, regulatory tracking, and case file searches, with partnerships including Everlaw, Relativity, iManage, NetDocuments, Docusign, Thomson Reuters, Harvey, and Legora. Google said client data and model outputs will not be used to train its foundation models.", "body_md": "Google is making a play for law firms with a new suite of tools built for the world's most scrupulous profession.\n\nThe company on Tuesday unveiled Gemini Enterprise for Legal, a bundle of pre-built Gemini skills and virtual assistants, known as agents, that can plug into the systems where a firm's data lives and carry out tasks.\n\nGoogle and other tech companies are seeing dollar signs in the legal sector. Since early this year, Anthropic has been courting lawyers with plugins for document review and drafting. [OpenAI](https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-enters-legal-ai-race-hires-jason-boehmig-2026-7) is building out a legal software team led by Ironclad founder Jason Boehmig. [Microsoft](https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-hiring-legal-engineer-ai-lawyers-2026-8) also debuted a legal agent this year.\n\nLaw firms are under pressure from clients to move faster and show they're not billing associates for work that agents can do. In-house legal teams are looking for ways to automate more work themselves, so they can send less to outside counsel and shrink their legal bills.\n\nGoogle's suite of AI tools positions it as a central hub for that legal work. Lawyers will be able to use Gemini Enterprise for Legal to review and negotiate contracts, track regulatory changes, and search case files and internal documents. Google said in a blog post that client data, model outputs, and other information won't be used to train Google's foundation models.\n\nIn its blog post, Google said that general-purpose artificial intelligence is \"nowhere near sufficient\" for lawyers, whose work relies on trust and accuracy. It said it developed Gemini Enterprise for Legal with input from attorneys at law firms, including Cleary Gottlieb and Freshfields, to bring better tools to their work.\n\nCustomers can also connect Gemini's agents to the systems that contain their internal documents. For litigation, Google has partnered with Everlaw and Relativity. For wrangling cases and contracts, it's tapped iManage, NetDocuments, and Docusign. Other partners include Thomson Reuters, [Harvey](https://www.businessinsider.com/harvey-builds-tenet-ai-model-for-legal-work-2026-8), and Legora.\n\nThose partnerships may help explain why legal tech stocks mostly held steady or saw only modest drops in early trading Tuesday. Shares of Thomson Reuters slid about 3%, one day after announcing its [first AI model](https://www.businessinsider.com/thomson-reuters-builds-ai-model-rely-less-on-anthropic-2026-8), while DocuSign was down less than 2%.\n\nIn February, a small legal release from Anthropic wiped out tens of billions of dollars in market value from legal tech and information services companies, as investors worried the company's push into legal would edge out incumbents.\n\nNow, Google appears to be taking a deliberately conciliatory approach.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-is-taking-on-anthropic-and-openai-in-the-legal-ai-race", "canonical_source": "https://www.businessinsider.com/google-unveils-gemini-enterprise-for-legal-law-tech-push-2026-8", "published_at": "2026-08-25 15:06:31+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-25 15:15:34.292429+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-agents", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Google", "Gemini Enterprise for Legal", "Anthropic", "OpenAI", "Cleary Gottlieb", "Freshfields", "Everlaw", "Relativity"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-is-taking-on-anthropic-and-openai-in-the-legal-ai-race", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-is-taking-on-anthropic-and-openai-in-the-legal-ai-race.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-is-taking-on-anthropic-and-openai-in-the-legal-ai-race.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-is-taking-on-anthropic-and-openai-in-the-legal-ai-race.jsonld"}}