OpenAI pilots Astra for Law with five global firms and a broad integration layer

On September 17, Reuters reported that OpenAI launched Astra for Law with an index of US legal authorities, integrations spanning Relativity, Clio, Intapp and Thomson Reuters, and an initial program involving Sullivan & Cromwell, Ropes & Gray, Cooley, Latham & Watkins and Wachtell Lipton. OpenAI said the selected-firm program includes protections for confidential client work, although Reuters did not report pricing or pilot performance. For procurement and panel teams, the launch makes model access less differentiating than the quality of a firm’s governed data, application design and documented review. Firms should be prepared to explain which client-facing outcomes a platform changes and what evidence supports those claims, rather than presenting vendor participation itself as innovation.