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Freshfields Lab supplies a pull-quote for the “agentic legal workflow” narrative

Gerrit Beckhaus, Partner and Co-Head Freshfields Lab, said the collaboration will go further by “co-developing agentic workflows with Anthropic that can handle multi-step legal tasks end-to-end.

BY FRONTIER DESK · APRIL 28, 2026 · 1 MIN READ

Gerrit Beckhaus, Partner and Co-Head Freshfields Lab, said the collaboration will go further by “co-developing agentic workflows with Anthropic that can handle multi-step legal tasks end-to-end.” This is an unusually explicit Big Law statement about agentic workflow design.

Why it matters: This quote can anchor a Legal Frontier newsletter intro, speaker outreach email or agenda session on the shift from AI pilots to legal workflow engineering.

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