Simpson Grierson has selected Legora as its legal AI platform, following a detailed evaluation of available legal AI tools. Legora will be rolled out to all our lawyers from June 2026.

This is a significant step for the firm, and part of a broader investment in the tools, systems and capability our lawyers use to support clients. It reflects our focus on delivering legal services that are responsive, practical and commercially useful. Legora will support our lawyers in working through large volumes of information, identifying key issues earlier, and spending more time on the judgement, strategy and client conversations that matter most.

Our clients expect their lawyers to be efficient, well prepared and commercially focused, without compromising on the security or quality they rely on us for. That was the test we set when we looked at legal AI, and Legora is the platform that met it. It fits the way we already work, protects client confidentiality and meets the data security standards our clients expect. Senior lawyer oversight and professional judgement remain central to our advice. This is also an investment in how we work as a firm, so our lawyers have access to the best tools available to support our clients."
Andrew Harkness, Managing Partner

What this means for our clients

Working with Simpson Grierson, our clients can expect:

• Greater consistency across large matters, particularly where there are multiple workstreams, documents, teams or jurisdictions.
• Clearer advice on complex matters, because our lawyers can spend more time testing the issues, considering the commercial context and talking through options with clients.
• The same standards of confidentiality, quality and judgement that have always defined working with Simpson Grierson.

Legal work is often shaped by changing facts, negotiations, regulators, counterparties, courts and client decisions. Those uncertainties do not disappear because AI is involved. Our focus is on using AI to support the quality, speed and usefulness of our advice, not to replace judgement or oversimplify the work.

A considered approach to legal AI

Legal AI is moving quickly, and not all tools are the same. Our approach has been to assess the market carefully and invest in technology that supports consistent, high-quality legal work over the long term.

Over the past year we ran structured trials of leading legal AI tools across all of our practice areas and legal roles, with feedback from lawyers, legal executives and our IT team informing the final selection. Legora joins an existing AI environment here that includes Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI tools used in areas such as eDiscovery.

Security, confidentiality and quality, by design

Client confidentiality and data security have been central to our decision. We use AI on a clear set of principles:

• Trusted technology, adopted deliberately. Proven tools are deployed at scale once value and safety are clear.
• Client confidentiality protected. We only use AI tools approved by our AI Governance Group. Client information is not entered into public AI tools. Where client data is processed through approved tools, it is encrypted, processed on servers in Australia, and not stored by the AI provider after processing.
• Lawyer led, with senior oversight. AI supports research, review and drafting. All AI assisted work is reviewed and refined by our lawyers, with appropriate senior lawyer oversight before it is used or shared with clients. Professional judgement, advice and accountability remain with us.
• Value, not replacement. The goal is higher quality service and more time for strategic advice, not fewer people thinking about our clients' problems.

Legora is one part of our broader investment in technology that supports better legal work, and we will continue to develop how we use AI as that investment progresses.

About Legora

Legora is a collaborative AI platform built for legal work, supporting lawyers in research, review and drafting across complex matters. It is used by legal professionals at leading law firms and in-house legal teams in more than 50 markets globally.