New alliance with Stanford’s CodeX, and newly appointed Senior Director of Innovation, will unlock next-generation service.

Davis Wright Tremaine Accelerates Pace of AI-Driven Innovation

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Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, a nationally recognized leader in legal services innovation, is proud to announce an alliance with CodeX, the renowned center for legal informatics at Stanford University. Through this alliance, the two organizations will collaborate on advancing cutting-edge research, including prototyping advanced AI tools that deliver next-level excellence for clients.

“CodeX is synonymous with multi-disciplinary innovation on the frontier of legal technology,” said Brent Goff, chief information officer at DWT. “The dynamic team at CodeX has spent years finding extraordinary ways to solve problems and bring our industry into the future. We look forward to joining forces with them to create groundbreaking products and processes that will delight our clients and keep us ahead of the competition.”

“DWT has a longstanding commitment to innovation and an eagerness to try new things,” said Dr. Megan Ma, associate director at CodeX and Stanford’s Law, Science, and Technology Program. “We are very pleased to establish an affiliate relationship with the firm and excited to see what we can accomplish together.”

DWT’s internal R&D unit, known as DWT De Novo, will manage the relationship with CodeX. De Novo is also being infused with new leadership: Dan Szabo, a highly experienced platform architect, engineering manager, and business strategist, who has helped spearhead many AI successes to date at DWT, has been promoted to Senior Director of Innovation and will drive De Novo’s focus on advancing AI.

Said Szabo: “DWT De Novo was founded on the principle that integrating the right people, processes, and technology can unlock next-generation performance, and as such is perfectly formulated for this moment in the legal industry. AI can be utterly transformative. We intend to be the first to bring some of these benefits to our clients.”

Matt Jedreski, an employment litigator with deep experience advising clients on AI issues, will provide De Novo with legal guidance and perspective. “A lot of off-the-shelf AI technology on the market looks appealing but fails to really solve problems or fit into our clients’ existing workstreams,” said Jedreski. “We are laser-focused on creating tools that are highly scalable and make everyone’s experience better.”

DWT has been widely recognized as a leader in the AI space. Szabo is currently a finalist for “Innovator of the Year” in American Lawyer Media’s 2025 Leaders in Tech Law Awards. DWT was recognized by the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers North America 2024 as the country’s “Standout” firm for Innovation in Digitizing Legal Practice. Likewise, the firm’s AI-driven platform, the In-House Gateway to Good, which provides one-click access to tailored pro bono and social impact opportunities, was named 2023’s “Transformative Project of the Year” by the International Legal Technology Association. Each week, more than a third of DWT’s lawyers and professional staff draw on DWT.AI, a large language model that is known as one of BigLaw’s first internal, generative AI apps.

“The energy around AI adoption at our firm is significant and growing,” said Szabo. “Just this month, a hundred DWT volunteers stepped up to help quality-check a new platform we’ve developed that will be a true game-changer in the immigration space and beyond. I’m very excited about what this year will bring.”

Said Jaime Drozd, DWT’s firmwide managing partner: “We are proud to be staking out a leadership position in the deployment of AI, in close collaboration with our clients and with exceptional partners like CodeX.”

About Davis Wright Tremaine

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP is an AmLaw 100 law firm with more than 600 lawyers representing clients based throughout the United States and around the world. Learn more at dwt.com.

About CodeX – The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics

At CodeX, a center jointly operated by the Stanford Law School and the Stanford Computer Science Department, researchers, lawyers, entrepreneurs, and technologists work side-by-side to advance the frontier of legal technology, bringing new levels of legal efficiency, transparency, and access to legal systems around the world. Learn more at law.stanford.edu/codex-the-stanford-center-for-legal-informatics/.

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