“London generative-AI consultancy that built bespoke legal AI for law firms since 2017; acquired outright by Cleary Gottlieb in March 2025.”
Springbok AI built custom generative AI applications for legal teams years before the current wave, with Dentons among its clients. In March 2025 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton acquired the consultancy outright — a move the ABA Journal called extremely rare for an elite firm. Co-founder Victoria C. Albrecht and around ten data scientists became Cleary's AI Acceleration team.
Bespoke build
ClientsGlobal law firms including Dentons; now internal to Cleary Gottlieb
Positions itself as the activation layer for legal AI: builds the agents, prompts and playbooks that make already-purchased platforms perform.
Builds targeted legal AI solutions instead of forcing generic tools onto legal problems, with a strong education and AI-literacy practice.
Boutique legal ops consultancy — 150+ clients including 15 Fortune 500–1000 companies — that implements technology and runs the stack alongside your team.
Strategic and legal engineering consultancy that rebuilds manual practices into semi-automated ones, with a stated 2× net efficiency guarantee.