Freshfields’ leaked AI plans: Genius? Greed? Or both?

Send us Fan Mail Freshfields created a storm last week when leaked emails revealed it was considering spinning off its AI venture potentially “worth billions”. According to the Financial Times, managing partner Alan Mason thinks that Freshfields Lab could get external investment, or even IPO. So on the new episode of The Lawyer Podcast, the team ask how such plans might work, what’s behind them, and why – as this year’s The Lawyer UK200 reports – they are part of a wider trend of law firms siphoning off non-law businesses.