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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Across 214 deal teams surveyed at AmLaw 200 firms and Fortune 1000 legal departments between October 2025 and January 2026, AI-suggested contract language was accepted without modification by counterparties at an average rate of 38%, modified and accepted at 29%, and rejected outright at 33%....
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Legal artificial intelligence has matured rapidly since 2023, with tools like Harvey AI, Clio Duo, LexisNexis Lexis+ AI, and Thomson Reuters CoCounsel achieving meaningful penetration in BigLaw, mid-market transactional firms, and civil litigation boutiques. Yet the offices bearing the heaviest case volumes in the American...
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Published by The Legal Stack Research Division | Benchmarking Series | Q1 2026
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Methodology: This briefing synthesizes findings from a proprietary survey of 47 litigation partners and legal ops directors at AmLaw 200 firms conducted February–April 2026; vendor interviews with representatives from Testify AI, EvenUp, Litera, Ironclad, Harvey AI, and Spellbook; analysis of bar ethics opinions issued between...
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The dominant narrative in legal AI marketing centers on headline clause detection — finding indemnification caps, limitation of liability carve-outs, and change-of-control provisions in the body of a master agreement. What vendors rarely discuss, and what this benchmark report quantifies for the first time at...
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Eighteen months ago, a legal AI vendor could close a meaningful percentage of deals by pitching a practice group partner or a forward-leaning associate general counsel and letting enthusiasm do the rest. That path to purchase has largely closed. Across firm sizes and legal department...