6. Freshfields and Anthropic expand Claude across the global firm
Freshfields announced a multi-year partnership with Anthropic to provide Claude to 5,700 employees through the firm’s secure proprietary AI platform, with usage increasing by around 500 percent in the first six weeks.
BY TRANSATLANTIC DESK · APRIL 29, 2026 · 1 MIN READ
Freshfields announced a multi-year partnership with Anthropic to provide Claude to 5,700 employees through the firm’s secure proprietary AI platform, with usage increasing by around 500 percent in the first six weeks. The partnership is one of the clearest Big Law examples of legal AI being treated as enterprise infrastructure, not a side experiment.