
Artificial Lawyer
Covenant: The Hybrid AI Law Firm
Date
Sep 11, 2025
Author
Artificial Lawyer
Ever since Covenant launched, Artificial Lawyer has wanted to learn more about this new model for delivering legal services. So, it was great to do an AL In-depth interview with Jen Berrent, co-founder of one of the first AI-powered hybrid law firms.
Covenant is not alone in placing AI front and centre in their legal offering, we have also seen Crosby come to market, and on a smaller scale there is Garfield. We’ve also seen legal AI company Eudia open its own ‘law firm’ in Arizona. In short, the market is changing.
In Covenant’s case, Berrent is an experienced lawyer who previously had been a partner at WilmerHale and also CLO, then COO, at WeWork. Her co-founder Richard Perris, ran legal and compliance at CVC, the top-tier investment group, and also long ago worked at Clifford Chance. The hybrid AI law firm received $4m seed funding this summer and is growing steadily.
Berrent gave a detailed insight into how it all works and one comment really stood out for AL, which referred to ‘leverage’ – but using the word in relation to technology, not an army of associates. And this is perhaps the central difference between ‘traditional law firms’ and the likes of Covenant, Crosby and others: the leverage is from the AI, not people. There are skilled lawyers there, as part of the offering, and that group will grow, but the ‘engine’, as it were, is not a pyramid base of human legal labour, it’s AI and workflows and data management.
And this is what is revolutionary about this business design: it provides what a regular law firm does, but it’s reworked the part where much of the value – or at least the cost – is created by junior lawyer labour. Moreover, what is most exciting here is that there is little stopping any group of experienced lawyers from doing the same. In fact, Berrent actually notes in the interview that she’d like to see a similar hybrid AI law firm on the other side of the transactions that Covenant works on for its clients.
Here is what Covenant is doing, their story, how it all started, and where they are going. Press Play to watch inside the page, (or go to the AL TV Channel). There is also an AI-generated transcript of the whole AL Interview below.
AL TV Productions, 2025
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Covenant: A New Era in Law Firms
02:57 AI Integration in Legal Services
05:31 Client-Centric Approach and Trust Building
08:20 The Founding Story of Covenant
11:04 Investment and Growth Strategies
14:01 Regulatory Framework and Structure
16:53 Pricing Model and Value Proposition
19:35 Attracting Talent and Future Growth
22:33 The Future of Legal Data and Client Empowerment