The government has awarded grants totalling over £6.4m to 18 legal artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics projects. The projects span the whole range of legal services, from City law firm DLA Piper and private client specialists Withers to consumer forum Legal Beagles and Islington Citizens Advice Bureau. The biggest grant of £1.53m from the Next Generation Services Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund went to a project focusing on the acquisition of confidential data. The project partners include Withers, Imperial College in London, Oxford University and Genie AI. The second biggest, £1.36m, went to help develop AI software that "detects and interprets emotion and linguistics from voice" to combat insurance fraud through "credibility/vulnerability assessment".