Calame, a Paris-based legal ops group, is partnering with genAI pioneer Leya to bring the startup’s technology to the French market, with both law firms and inhouse teams targeted.
Calame, which also has clients in the US, UK and Middle East, said that the partnership will ‘allow French law firms and inhouse teams to access game-changing generative AI abilities, driven by an agile and lightweight professional services team with a single focus: making legal shine’.
Jonathan Williams (pictured) at Calame told Artificial Lawyer: ‘The partnership is important because the practical impact of getting things done is what’s going to drive things forward.’
He added that the goal was to ‘help clients to move from conceptual stuff to actual improvements’ via Leya’s genAI offering.
Leya, is based in Sweden, but has quickly developed an international client base, including running a major PoC at UK-based Bird & Bird, and offers a range of genAI based capabilities. In particular, the company is known for its work in helping lawyers to find and extract key legal data from selections of documents, from DMSs and other KM stores, as well as surfacing insights from legislative databases.
Meanwhile, Calame was launched in 2019 and primarily handles strategy and operational challenges, with a strong focus on technical transformation projects that impact legal teams.
So, is this a big step? Well, if you are a startup every opportunity to expand your client base is a useful move, all the more so given that Leya is already EU-based, so building up its customers in France makes total sense.
It’s also good to see that the partnership will focus on inhouse and law firms, offering a greater chance of a wider impact.