Overview
- Staff logged 1 million Microsoft Copilot prompts with over four months to spare, meeting the firm’s 2025 target.
- An additional £1m will be added to the firmwide bonus for eligible staff in the new financial year, subject to a core financial metric.
- Shoosmiths says Copilot supports email quality checks, summaries, ideation, analysis, research and meeting management, but is excluded from work requiring legal expertise.
- The firm previously paid about £3.5m through its collegiate bonus pool, giving 1,300 eligible colleagues a 5% salary bonus in July.
- Shoosmiths positions itself as the first major law firm to tie a firmwide bonus to AI usage as peers roll out tools like Harvey AI and legal-tech start-ups scale globally.