Davis Wright Tremaine Deploys Harvey Firm-Wide with 90% Adoption Target and Microsoft Frontier Suite

Davis Wright Tremaine announced on August 18 a significant expansion of its AI capabilities through firm-wide deployment of Harvey and Microsoft Copilot, with a stated goal of 90% attorney adoption and a ranking target in the top quartile of law firms using AI. The firm is also adopting Microsoft's AI Frontier Suite powered by Microsoft 365 E7, representing a dual-vendor strategy that pairs a legal-specific AI (Harvey) with an enterprise productivity AI (Microsoft 365 Copilot). The 90% adoption target is notable: most law firm AI announcements address access deployment without setting adoption rate targets, and DWT's public commitment to a specific adoption benchmark signals that the firm is treating AI integration as an operational performance metric rather than a technology initiative. For managing partners building AI business cases, DWT's framing — AI integrated into "legal and business workflows" with an explicit adoption rate goal — provides a template for how to frame internal AI investment commitments in terms of operational throughput rather than capability access.