IBM Watson in Quiet Talks With Law Firms to Expand AI Offerings

The makers of IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence tool have been in quiet, informal discussions with a small group of prominent law firms in a bid to launch an expansion of offerings for firms and to help them collaborate around AI.

IBM until now has been mostly content to focus its legal business marketing of Watson—arguably the world’s best-known AI system—to legal departments within large corporations, Brian Kuhn, co-founder and global leader of the Watson legal practice at IBM, said in a Jan. 30 interview with Bloomberg Law.

Though IBM has a select number of arrangements with U.S. and U.K.-based ...