Walker Morris drives legal innovation with Curvestone AI partnership

By partnering with Curvestone AI and working with clients, Walker Morris takes a tailored and flexible approach to utilising AI. This is delivered by looking at targeted areas where AI will have the most impact and combining this with the expertise of our talented lawyers to deliver a combined service, all within the strict guardrails of our responsible approach to the use of AI.

Examples include:

• Capturing valuable expertise on Commercial contracts in specific sectors such as Tech, Financial Services, Transport and Food and Drink and translating these into a set of reusable prompts and designing a workflow to enable a first review of a set of sector-specific contracts.
• Ensuring the output of the review is usable and bespoke to clients. For example, instead of using a generic Excel or Word output, designing the output to reflect a client report or email saves the in-house team from re-inventing the wheel.
• Exploring the use of AI to compare mark ups against client standards to accelerate negotiations and generate risk assessments.

Beyond the partnership with Curvestone AI, the firm continues to explore wider uses of legal technology and AI and champion innovation internally through its Innovation Champion League, which drives adoption of legal tech and rewards creativity. Champions go head-to-head every quarter to score innovation points with prizes up for grabs for the top scorers.

Walker Morris also launched an ‘Autumn of AI’ and ’12 Tech Days of Christmas’ initiatives that promotes the practical use of AI across the firm, from drafting clauses to preparing sector-specific client meetings.

Laura Pilkington, Innovation Lead at Walker Morris, said: “Our partnership with Curvestone AI and implementing generative AI represents a huge opportunity not only for the firm, but the whole sector, and at Walker Morris, we’re embracing it as a catalyst for change and channelling it’s value to where it works most effectively for us as a firm ensuring we are well positioned as a law firm of the future.

We’ve recently delivered an AI driven supplier contract review exercise for one of our Financial Services clients. We automated the extraction of key contractual elements, including contracting entities, termination rights and exclusivity clauses.

“Once the data was extracted, we presented the findings in a tailored, accessible format designed for both legal and commercial stakeholders. This approach allowed our client to streamline their key supplier terms, compare terms across suppliers, identify risks and make informed decisions quickly. The project demonstrated how technology can enhance legal processes, providing actionable insights and measurable value.

“This is about building a future where technology enhances relationships, drives efficiency, and supports sustainable growth for our clients and our firm.”

Dawid Kotur, Co-Founder and CEO of Curvestone AI, added: “Walker Morris has moved past pilots to production workflows that saves hours of time and brain space for their teams without compromising on accuracy. That’s lawyers spending their time on judgment calls, not mechanical review – and is exactly the kind of practical implementation that makes AI work in environments where precision is paramount.”