Research briefings
Original, data-driven reports on how the legal industry is adopting — and governing — AI. Reader-funded and conflict-free.
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A quietly developing class of automated decision system (ADS) laws now imposes disclosure, impact assessment, and opt-out obligations on employers that use algorithmic tools to make or substantially influence consequential employment decisions. Law firms and legal departments deploying AI to assign matters, score associate performance,...
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A close reading of publicly available terms and standard master service agreement frameworks from major legal AI vendors suggests a consistent and troubling pattern: the gap between what buyers believe they negotiated and what the contract language actually delivers is not marginal — it is...
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Before any analysis of small firm AI adoption is credible, the survey problem must be confronted directly. The dominant legaltech surveys — ILTA's annual technology survey, Thomson Reuters Institute's State of the Legal Market, and Wolters Kluwer's Future Ready Lawyer report — draw their most...
10 min
Research briefing — a review of public sources. The Legal Stack did not conduct a survey, benchmark or interviews for this piece.
10 min
Research briefing — a review of public sources. The Legal Stack did not conduct a survey, benchmark or interviews for this piece.
10 min
Research briefing — a review of public sources. The Legal Stack did not conduct a survey, benchmark or interviews for this piece.