Google Brings Custom AI to Law and Finance

Google has announced plans for Gemini AI specifically designed for legal and finance professionals. The platform will be tailored to meet the needs of regulated industries, which require confidentiality, auditability, and grounding. This is a departure from general-purpose enterprise AI that may not address these specific requirements.

The financial services edition will include a Google-managed Financial Research agent with over 50 skills and 13 connectors to licensed data sources. Deutsche Bank is the named design partner for this research agent, which has workflows including KYC research, credit opportunity identification, bond issuance pitching, and portfolio risk analysis.

The legal edition will have skills for brief drafting, citation verification, contract lifecycle management, regulatory horizon scanning, and data subject access request fulfillment. Its connectors will run into various systems such as NetDocuments, DocuSign, Everlaw, and others. Preview customers include Cleary, Freshfields, Weil, and Williams and Connolly.

The permissions model overhaul allows connectors to inherit the access controls of underlying systems, essentially carrying a firm's legal 'walls' automatically without using client data, strategies, or output to train the base models in play.