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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Research briefing — a review of public sources. The Legal Stack did not conduct a survey, benchmark or interviews for this piece.
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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...
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Eighteen months into what many AmLaw 200 leaders publicly framed 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. Public reporting, benchmark data and...
10 min
Research briefing — a review of public sources. The Legal Stack did not conduct a survey, benchmark or interviews for this piece.
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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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