Google on Tuesday rolled out Gemini Enterprise for Legal, a new vertical product that puts AI agents directly inside law-firm operations — the latest move in an intensifying race among tech companies to capture the legal industry's fast-growing AI budgets.
The offering, an extension of the Gemini Enterprise platform Alphabet launched for general business customers last October, includes AI agents tailored for contract review, regulatory tracking, litigation support and case management. Google says the agents can handle specialised legal and administrative functions with limited human oversight while keeping client data within each firm's security perimeter.
Key features include integration with legal software platforms owned by Thomson Reuters (including Westlaw), legal AI startup Harvey and data analytics provider LexisNexis. Google said the platform is flexible enough to let firms choose among multiple embedded AI models rather than being locked into a single provider.
A group of prominent law firms — Weil Gotshal, Cleary Gottlieb, Freshfields and Williams and Connolly — are collaborating with Google as early partners. Clients increasingly expect their lawyers to be using AI and taking advantage of its efficiencies, Weil Gotshal co-managing partner Jonathon Soler said.
The launch arrives amid a surge in legal-sector AI investment. A 2026 Deloitte report found that law firms are pouring money into AI as part of a transformation still in its early stages, with many firms forming strategic partnerships with AI providers or building their own platforms.
Google is competing directly with Anthropic, which has also expanded its enterprise legal tools in recent months, and with Thomson Reuters, which on Monday launched Thomson 1.0, a proprietary large language model trained on its legal research content.
Alphabet's Google Cloud division has become one of the company's fastest-growing businesses, and the legal vertical represents one of the largest addressable markets for enterprise AI. Google Cloud product director Amrita Mehrok said the platform was designed to be flexible for law firms, allowing them to select the AI models best suited to specific tasks.
The company said it plans to roll out additional industry-specific Gemini Enterprise tools beyond legal and financial services in the coming months.
