Clifford Chance Deploys Firmwide AI KM Platform with Microsoft and Epiq Advisory

Clifford Chance announced the deployment of a new AI Knowledge Management platform on July 20, 2026, designed in partnership with Epiq Advisory for Law Firms, the firm's KM team, and Microsoft. The platform encodes institutional knowledge into proprietary firm-wide AI agents — the firm's first deployment of the "knowledge vault" model that treats curated work product, practice guides, and precedent banks as structured inputs to AI reasoning rather than passive repositories. For KM practitioners, the Clifford Chance architecture is notable for what it requires upstream: before institutional knowledge can be encoded into agents, it must be identified, curated, and governed. The partnership with Epiq Advisory — a professional services firm rather than a software vendor — signals that the design work of knowledge architecture is a consulting engagement before it becomes a technology deployment.