Research

The promise of legal technology has always carried an implicit assumption: that efficiency gains would flow equally across the profession, democratizing access to sophisticated tools regardless of firm size. That assumption has not held. While Am Law 100 firms have deployed AI-assisted contract review platforms,...

Law firms occupy a uniquely dangerous position in the cybersecurity ecosystem. They hold confidential communications protected by attorney-client privilege, transaction data from pending mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property files, and personal identifying information for thousands of clients — all under one roof, often with security...

Corporate legal departments are no longer reluctant technology adopters. After years of being perennial laggards relative to their law firm counterparts, in-house teams have accelerated their technology investment at a pace that would have seemed implausible five years ago. The convergence of generative AI maturity,...

The billable hour turns 75 this year, and by most measures it remains stubbornly dominant. Yet the conversation around alternative fee arrangements has shifted from theoretical preference to measurable practice — and the data tells a more complicated story than either proponents or skeptics typically...

The legal profession sits in an uncomfortable position relative to data privacy: law firms are simultaneously among the most trusted custodians of sensitive personal information and, historically, among the least scrutinised by privacy regulators. That calculus is changing rapidly. Between GDPR enforcement actions, the Australian...

The numbers have not materially improved. Despite a decade of earnest conference panels, innovation lab launches, and press releases announcing "transformative" solutions, the global access-to-justice gap remains one of the most stubbornly persistent failures of modern governance. The World Justice Project's 2023 Rule of Law...