OpenAI launches Astra for Law with research and platform integrations

On September 17, Reuters reported that OpenAI released Astra for Law, combining GPT-6 Astra with an index of U.S. case law, statutes and regulations, specialized legal instructions and integrations with providers including Relativity, Clio, Intapp and Thomson Reuters. OpenAI initially limited access to selected firms through a confidential-work program and said it had developed applications with firms including Sullivan & Cromwell, Ropes & Gray, Cooley, Latham & Watkins and Wachtell Lipton. Mid-sized firms may gain access first through the vendors building on Astra rather than through a direct enterprise program, making contractual responsibility and support boundaries important procurement questions. The practical test is whether a vendor’s Astra-enabled workflow improves a defined task with reliable citations and permissions, not whether the underlying model carries a legal label.