According to a recent LinkedIn post from Flank, several members of its team spent two days in Cambridge working with international law firm Simmons & Simmons to onboard the firm onto Flank’s platform. The session reportedly focused on determining which legal tasks should remain with lawyers and which could be handled end to end by software agents under lawyer supervision.
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The post describes a hands-on workshop in which Simmons & Simmons lawyers translated existing workflows into structured playbooks on Flank, encoding rules, preferred terms, and escalation logic, and then configuring operational agents. It further notes work on measuring agent accuracy, dealing with edge cases, and iterating toward consistent, scalable outputs.
According to the post, a key takeaway was experienced lawyers specifying how agents should draft, review, and escalate tasks, then observing the system execute those instructions rapidly. The description implies that legal expertise is being systematized rather than replaced, with the potential to apply consistent standards across all relevant matters.
For investors, the collaboration suggests early traction for Flank’s platform within complex, high-value professional services, which could support future revenue growth if deployments expand across practice groups or jurisdictions. Working with a prominent firm such as Simmons & Simmons may also enhance Flank’s credibility in the legal tech market and highlight a use case focused on automation under expert oversight rather than full disintermediation.