Seyfarth’s AI-Powered SEYscraper Wins Financial Times Innovation Award

Seyfarth has been recognized as a leader in legal innovation, earning the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Award for its AI-powered litigation intelligence tool, SEYscraper. The FT’s 2025 North America Innovative Lawyers Special Report also commended Seyfarth in two additional categories—AI Strategy and Unlocking Capital—underscoring the firm’s commitment to delivering transformative solutions for clients.

SEYscraper: Transforming Litigation Strategy

SEYscraper is an AI-powered tool that is revolutionizing litigation workflows and changing how attorneys and clients approach case strategy. Traditionally, analyzing public case data required hours of manual review and often yielded incomplete insights. SEYscraper automates this process, extracting and analyzing key metrics such as settlement amounts, judicial patterns, and valuation trends from thousands of court documents. These insights are organized into a continuously updating database, enabling attorneys to benchmark cases, anticipate opposing counsel strategies, and negotiate with confidence backed by data.

Developed by Seyfarth Labs and born from the firm’s inaugural SEYence Fair, SEYscraper is designed to be practice-agnostic and is expanding to additional public data sources such as consent decrees. This evolution broadens its impact across multiple practices and industries, providing faster access to actionable intelligence and better-informed decisions about litigation strategy. 

This honor reflects the strength of Seyfarth’s innovation strategy and the firmwide collaboration that brings bold ideas to life. Seyfarth’s culture empowers every level of the organization to contribute to progress: leadership sets the tone for bold thinking, partners and innovators imagine new possibilities, and teams across disciplines deliver exceptional service. Crowdsourced ideas ignite breakthroughs, and world-class legal solutions architects transform vision into reality. This integrated approach defines Seyfarth’s ability to execute on its innovation strategy and create meaningful value for clients.

COMMENDED: Innovation in AI Strategy

Seyfarth earned commendation for SEYmultaneous Advancement, the firm’s initiative to embed innovation into its people strategy through programs that demystify AI and empower attorneys and staff to experiment and learn.

COMMENDED: Innovation in Unlocking Capital

The firm was also commended for its innovative work in Opportunity Zones (OZs).  By creating flexible structures for Qualified Opportunity Funds that integrate tax, real estate, and corporate law, Seyfarth’s Opportunity Zone Funds practice has developed flexible structures for Qualified Opportunity Funds that channel private investment into underserved communities to support housing, infrastructure, and job creation. This forward-looking approach exemplifies how legal foresight and structural creativity can unlock capital for inclusive economic development, delivering both commercial success and meaningful social impact.

 The FT Innovative Lawyers Report, produced in partnership with RSGI Consulting, showcases law firms and in-house legal teams that deliver creative solutions to complex business challenges. Seyfarth’s recognition reflects the strength of its innovation strategy, bringing together bold ideas, advanced technology, and multidisciplinary collaboration to deliver measurable impact for clients and help shape the future of the legal industry.