Analysis

The pitch decks landing in legal ops inboxes in 2026 have a new badge. Alongside SOC 2 Type II and the now-ubiquitous claims about "enterprise-grade security," a growing number of legaltech vendors are leading with ISO 42001 certification — the International Organization for Standardization's AI...

There's a pattern emerging across AmLaw 200 firms that nobody is putting in their client newsletters: the same managing partners who stood on stage at partner retreats in 2024 talking about AI-driven efficiency are now quietly telling IT to pull access for specific practice groups....

The litigation finance industry built its credibility on rigorous, independent case assessment. Funders like Burford Capital, Harbour Litigation Funding, and Omni Bridgeway carved out dominant positions by being better at predicting case outcomes than the lawyers bringing them. That analytical edge is now under threat...

There's a pattern emerging in legal AI adoption that nobody wants to talk about at the vendor demo but that practitioners are quietly noticing in the work: the AI agrees with you too much. You upload a contract and ask whether your client's position is...

The promises were everywhere in 2024. "Grounded AI." "Citation-verified outputs." "Hallucination-free legal research." If you attended ILTA or LegalWeek that year, you couldn't walk twenty feet without a vendor handing you a one-pager built around some variation of the claim that their large language model...

The legal profession has a disclosure problem, and it isn't subtle. Across litigation departments, solo practices, and BigLaw document review teams, lawyers are using generative AI to draft briefs, research memos, contract provisions, and demand letters — then presenting that work product as though a...

The United States is running out of court reporters, and the legal profession has spent the better part of a decade treating this as a calendar problem. It is not. It is an infrastructure crisis, and the gap between what the litigation system demands and...

There is a particular kind of discomfort that comes from reading a law firm's AI governance policy and realizing, somewhere around page four, that it is significantly more rigorous than anything your own department has produced. This is happening to general counsel at mid-market and...

The redlines started appearing sometime around mid-2024. A boilerplate paragraph, usually tucked between the billing rate schedule and the conflict waiver, informing clients that the firm "may utilize artificial intelligence tools in the course of providing legal services." Careful. Passive. Hedged to the point of...