Krishnan Padmanabhan Discusses Winston AI Strategy Group with The American Lawyer

Winston & Strawn partner, Krishnan Padmanabhan  discussed the firm’s artificial intelligence strategy group with The American Lawyer. With increased interest from clients and a surge of AI-related cases hitting courts, many firms have begun launching official AI strategy teams. Winston’s AI strategy group, announced in January, includes lawyers and technologists who advise clients on navigating regulations, drafting policies, and managing novel cases presented by AI.

Krishnan told The American Lawyer that they’ve been working with AI for a while but felt in January they had their infrastructure in place, both internally and in terms of how they wanted to serve clients. He also said he wanted to take a more long-term approach, in part because the environment is evolving so quickly and because the products are still relatively immature.

Krishnan added that a lot of vendors are tying their products to big-name, large language models—those developed by OpenAI or Google, for instance. But they’ve also seen tools developed by upstarts that are equally impressive, he said.

“I don’t think the best solutions are necessarily coming from the deepest pockets. And that requires deeper attention,” he said.

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