Research briefings

Across 2025 and into 2026, the dominant legal AI vendors — including Thomson Reuters (CoCounsel), Lexis+ AI, Harvey, Ironclad, and Kira Systems (now part of Litera) — completed or accelerated transitions from predictable per-seat SaaS licensing to token-based or consumption-indexed pricing architectures. For in-house legal...

A significant and largely unacknowledged transparency gap has opened between what corporate legal departments expect from outside counsel on AI use disclosure and what law firms are actually providing. Based on surveys of 247 in-house counsel and 189 law firm partners and legal operations leads...

Legal AI vendors are updating the models powering their tools with a frequency and opacity that creates measurable operational risk for law firms and legal departments. Our research — drawing on interviews with 30 legal operations directors and IT leads, contract review across 50 vendor...

Methodology: Survey of 412 legal professionals conducted October–December 2025, spanning 38 BigLaw firms, 61 mid-market firms (100–500 attorneys), and 47 in-house legal departments. Compensation data supplemented by lateral hire placement records from Major, Lindsey & Africa; Lateral Link; and Macrae, covering 2,100+ placements from 2024–2025....

Two years after generative AI tools became standard infrastructure at major law firms, the supervision frameworks governing their use remain dangerously uneven. This briefing synthesizes findings from a survey of 214 law firms and corporate legal departments conducted between January and April 2026, revealing that...

Methodology: 200-respondent practitioner survey, April–May 2026. Respondents drawn from law firms (n=112) and in-house legal departments (n=88), segmented by organization size, tool category, and deployment model. Failure defined as project abandonment, reduction to pilot-only scope, or failure to achieve ≥50% of stated ROI targets within...