Ilona Logvinova at ILTACON: “LLMs and AI are raw material, not a competitive advantage.”

In this interview, Ilona Logvinova, Director of Practice Innovation at Cleary Gottlieb, explains how the firm is embedding AI across its operations through vendor partnerships and its in-house AI team, Springbok, which can rapidly build solutions for urgent client needs. She emphasizes Cleary’s commitment to transparency and responsible AI principles, highlights how innovation is reshaping client service delivery through data visualization and interactive portals, and notes that AI tools are only the raw materials. True differentiation comes from how firms execute, leverage data, and combine machine intelligence with human expertise—creating what she calls “elevated intelligence.”

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