Walter has launched its AI Joint Innovation Program, an initiative where select law firms receive early access to Walter’s AI capabilities and collaborate on the design, testing, and deployment of the Walter AI Assistant. 

Law firms participating in Walter’s AI Joint Innovation Program are not only contributing to the development of the software but are also building the internal capacity and skillset required to successfully integrate AI into legal workflows. Adopting AI in professional services involves more than implementing new tools; it calls for changes to how teams work, how decisions are made, and how value is delivered to clients. This program gives firms a meaningful advantage by allowing their lawyers to develop these capabilities well ahead of broader market adoption.

The first participant announced in the program is Fasken’s Emerging Technology and Venture Capital group, a leader in advising high-growth companies and venture investors. Their early involvement reflects a strong commitment to operational excellence and a thoughtful approach to adopting AI in legal services.

Fasken is working closely with the Walter team to refine and validate the Walter AI Assistant, a tool designed to help lawyers deliver more value to clients by streamlining time-consuming, routine work. It supports first-draft document generation from uncoded precedents, handles entity creation, automates data entry, manages compliance workflows, and answers nuanced legal operations questions.

The Assistant works directly within Microsoft Outlook, Word, and the Walter platform, fitting naturally into the tools lawyers already use every day.

This collaboration builds on the relationship Walter began last year with Fasken’s Emerging Technology and Venture Capital group, which adopted Walter as part of its core legal tech stack. That early alignment created a strong foundation for deeper product work through the AI Joint Innovation Program. Today, Fasken’s Emerging Tech group is helping shape how AI is being developed and deployed to support modern legal work.

Today’s most successful law firms are focused on modernizing how they work — not for the sake of technology, but to better serve their clients and their teams. For Fasken, participating in the AI Joint Innovation Program is a natural extension of its long-standing commitment to operational excellence and forward-thinking service delivery.

"By freeing us from repetitive tasks, the Walter AI Assistant will help us focus on the valued-added work our clients expect of us," said Constantinos Ragas, Partner and Co-Leader of the Emerging Technology Group at Fasken. "The legal industry is experiencing a paradigm shift with the advent of agentic AI capabilities. The Walter AI Assistant is more than just another piece of office software; it’s a game-changing tool that puts us at the forefront of this technological revolution."

The Walter AI Joint Innovation Program is designed to support firms that are actively rethinking how legal work gets done. By collaborating closely with participants, we are developing AI that fits the complexity of legal workflows and integrates directly into the systems lawyers already use.

“It’s been a privilege working with Fasken as part of the program,” said Ryan Wilson, CEO of Walter. “They’ve approached this work with clarity and focus, and their feedback has played an important role in guiding how we build AI that’s actually useful in legal workflows. We’re looking forward to what comes next.”

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