Analysis

There's a negotiation dynamic quietly metastasizing across commercial contracting, and most transactional lawyers aren't talking about it yet. When you use an AI drafting tool to generate your first draft, and your counterparty does the same, you aren't starting from opposing positions. You're starting from...

The pitch is seductive. Load your contract playbook, connect your template library, and let the AI negotiate your NDAs end-to-end while your associates work on something that actually requires a law degree. Every major legal AI vendor — Harvey, Ironclad, Spellbook, ContractPodAi, and a half-dozen...

The legal profession spent the better part of 2023 and 2024 worrying about AI hallucination — the fabricated citations, the phantom judges, the cases that never existed. Mata v. Avianca gave every partner a cautionary tale to forward around. But there's a quieter, more insidious...

Here is what the demo never shows you: paste a 180-page master service agreement — complete with six schedules, two exhibits, a data processing addendum, and a statement of work — into your AI contract review tool, and watch what happens to the indemnification analysis...

There is a quiet crisis building inside the upper floors of large law firms, and most of the partners contributing to it do not fully realize it yet. They are signing off on memos, briefs, due diligence summaries, and contract analyses that were substantially drafted...

The General Counsel finds out the same way they find out about most shadow IT problems: accidentally. A vendor renewal crosses the right desk, a data incident triggers an audit trail, or someone in IT mentions offhand that compliance has been running a separate contract...

There's a phenomenon spreading through claims departments, defense firm inboxes, and commercial collections desks that nobody has formally named yet, but every practitioner over forty is starting to recognize. AI-drafted demand letters are getting triaged into a de facto low-priority queue — not because of...

The demo went beautifully. Procurement signed off. IT provisioned the accounts. Someone sent an all-staff email with the subject line "Exciting New AI Tool Available Now." And then, sixty days later, the platform analytics told a quietly devastating story: fourteen percent active user rate, median...

The pre-matter simulation is becoming the most consequential — and least discussed — shift in how sophisticated legal practices actually work. Before a deal closes, before discovery opens, before the first demand letter goes out, a growing number of BigLaw and mid-market firms are running...