November 12, 2026
NEW YORK, NY (November 12, 2026) – Willkie today announced its selection of Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW), the AI Data Cloud company, to advance the firm’s enterprise data and AI strategy. Building on its established data warehouse, the firm plans to use Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud to support analytics and AI initiatives with a secure, governed data foundation.
“Our work with Snowflake represents a pivotal moment in Willkie’s technology strategy,” said John Elbasan, Chief Digital and Innovation Officer at Willkie. “Willkie has long invested in a strong data foundation. With Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud, we are reimagining how our data is catalogued, governed and put to work, unlocking new AI-powered capabilities that will amplify how we serve clients. This investment keeps Willkie at the forefront of legal industry innovation and enables us to deliver greater value to our clients while maintaining the highest standards of data availability and protection.”
Willkie’s decision to evolve its data platform with Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud is driven by several key strategic objectives:
- Accelerating Client Service: Support faster, more informed decision-making by helping attorneys access relevant firm knowledge, market intelligence and matter history.
- Unified Data Foundation: Bring together the firm’s data assets into a single, governed platform, creating a powerful foundation for AI-driven insights and real-time analytics across the enterprise.
- Scaling Expertise Across the Firm: Use Snowflake Cortex AI capabilities to support access to the firm’s collective knowledge across practice areas and geographies.
- Maximizing AI Investments: Support the firm’s existing AI investments including Protégé, Harvey, or OpenAI with a secure, governed data foundation, ensuring that every AI application benefits from the firm’s unified knowledge base.
“The opportunity for AI in legal services is to make a firm’s collective experience more accessible and useful in everyday decisions,” said Roxanne McKinnon, VP Global Data Transformation, Snowflake. “We look forward to working with Willkie to connect trusted, governed data with AI-powered tools that help attorneys draw on relevant knowledge from past matters. That foundation is essential to building agentic solutions that support professional judgment and more informed client service.”
Through this initiative, Willkie is harnessing the AI Data Cloud to support the expertise of its attorneys, surface insights across workflows and deliver enhanced capabilities at scale. The firm aims to improve matter intelligence and reporting, help attorneys identify relevant precedents more efficiently and provide greater transparency into matter status. With a reimagined data catalogue spanning its practice areas, Willkie can navigate client matters more efficiently, identify relevant precedents faster and deliver better value and outcomes throughout the lifecycle of an engagement.
“Snowflake gives Willkie an enterprise platform that compounds every matter, relationship, and insight into a continuously improving foundation for decision-making,” said Kandra Schmidtberger, Director of Enterprise Platforms at Willkie. “Our focus is on managing that platform responsibly, with strong governance, security, and data stewardship built in from the start, so our lawyers can confidently harness AI to deliver the highest quality counsel to our clients.”
Through continued investment in artificial intelligence, legal engineering, innovation and responsible governance, Willkie is building the next generation of AI-powered platforms and solutions designed to enhance legal services, strengthen business operations and create lasting value for clients.
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Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP provides leading-edge legal solutions on complex, business-critical issues spanning markets and industries. With approximately 1,300 attorneys across 16 offices worldwide, the firm delivers innovative, pragmatic, and sophisticated legal services across approximately 45 practice areas. Learn more at www.willkie.com.