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AT&T Creates An 'In-House Law Firm' To Test AI Tools

By Anna Scott Farrell

When AT&T's corporate legal team decided last summer that to stay competitive on AI they needed to create their own department dedicated to working with artificial intelligence tools, they used their many partnerships with outside firms as a model.

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