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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The debate over AI in litigation has focused almost entirely on judges — their standing orders, their sanctions, their public statements. This briefing redirects attention to the professionals who actually read most of what gets filed in federal court: law clerks. As the primary pre-screening...
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The American judiciary's response to artificial intelligence in legal practice has evolved from reactive crisis management into something more systematic — though not yet coherent. As of June 2026, more than 140 federal district judges and multiple circuit courts have issued standing orders or local...
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Eighteen months of scaled AI deployment at major law firms and corporate legal departments has produced a messier, more differentiated picture than either the displacement pessimists or the redeployment optimists predicted. The honest finding: it is both, and the split is breaking along firm size,...
10 min
Prepared for General Counsel, Managing Partners, Legal Ethics Counsel, Legal Operations Directors, and Bar Association Professional Responsibility Committees
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The first wave of enterprise legal AI deployments has matured into its renewal cycle, and the results are measurably uncomfortable for both buyers and vendors. Based on survey data collected between Q3 and Q4 2025 from 214 legal ops leaders across AmLaw 200 firms and...
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A structured analysis of AI-specific provisions embedded in outside counsel guidelines (OCGs) issued by Fortune 1000 legal departments reveals a compliance architecture built largely on mutual fiction. Corporate legal departments are drafting AI provisions that assume operational controls that do not exist in current large...