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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Eighteen months into what most AmLaw 200 managing partners publicly characterized as "transformative AI deployment," the actual shift in fee arrangement distribution is more fragmented, more firm-specific, and more contested than either the technology vendors or the trade press have acknowledged. Based on interviews conducted...
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Legal departments are deploying AI at an accelerating pace — Thomson Reuters, Relativity, Harvey, Clio, Luminance, Ironclad, Kira Systems (now part of Litera), and dozens of smaller platforms are embedded in workflows that touch privileged communications, M&A due diligence, regulatory filings, and employment matters. Yet...
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Six months into meaningful EU AI Act enforcement posture — following the February 2025 prohibited practices prohibition date and the August 2025 GPAI model obligations deadline — the legal sector is demonstrating a classification gap that regulators are beginning to notice. Based on a synthesis...
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Research Briefing | The Legal Stack | AI Tools / Benchmarking
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As of mid-2026, the U.S. legal profession finds itself in a familiar posture: regulation trailing technology by a margin wide enough to drive a hallucinating large language model through. Fewer than a dozen states have formally amended their competency frameworks to explicitly incorporate AI literacy...
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Across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, state bar authorities have generated an unprecedented volume of guidance addressing attorney use of artificial intelligence tools — yet formal disciplinary enforcement remains remarkably sparse, creating a regulatory gap with significant practical and liability implications for...