US personal injury giant Morgan & Morgan announced today (14 September) that it has committed to spend at least $1bn on legal technology and artificial intelligence over the next decade, as it formally unveils its proprietary AI platform MX2.
The investment equates to at least $100m a year over the next ten years and builds on $300m that Morgan & Morgan says it has already invested in technology and AI during the past five years. The firm does not disclose its earnings but according to a report from Reuters in June, the firm was considering a minority stake sale that could raise over $1bn and a longer term IPO.
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MX2 is designed as an AI and automation layer across Morgan & Morgan’s case lifecycle, securely accessing and processing information including police reports, medical records, court dockets and client interactions.
The platform currently incorporates four main capabilities. MX2 Agent provides case insights, trial preparation and agentic workflows embedded directly within Litify; First Draft provides case-aware document generation integrated with Microsoft Office; Medical extracts and analyses medical records, builds chronologies and generates alerts; and Search provides semantic search across unstructured case data.
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Morgan & Morgan says MX2 is also able to identify patterns and establish benchmarks across cases. The firm says its technology has already fulfilled hundreds of thousands of medical record requests and retrieved large numbers of police reports through automated systems, as well as contributing to increases in metrics including demands and discovery responses.
The announcement represents the formal unveiling of MX2 as a broad platform, rather than the first appearance of the technology. An earlier version, MX2.law, was already being used internally by Morgan & Morgan lawyers and came under scrutiny last year after a lawyer used it to add case law to motions in a Wyoming product liability case. Eight authorities cited in the motions did not exist, resulting in sanctions against three lawyers.
Morgan & Morgan co-founder John Morgan contrasted the firm’s approach with that of large commercial firms, arguing that AI economics are fundamentally different for contingency-fee practices.
“Firms which bill by the hour to draft and review agreements or read through thousands of pages of documents, are the practices AI will replace – almost entirely,” Morgan said.
He added: “Trial lawyers are a very different story. No robot is walking into a courtroom to deliver a closing argument.”