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Thor Alden, firm associate director, innovation, answered the questions.

Necessity is the mother of invention. What need was your firm inspired to address with your innovation?

Toward the end of 2022, we realized that we needed to act quickly on generative AI, given its apparent potential to transform legal work. Because the publicly released version of ChatGPT did not meet our IT Security requirements, we looked for alternatives to harness the powerful capabilities of generative AI.