Research briefings

The global e-discovery market crossed $17.3 billion in 2025 and is tracking toward $21 billion by 2027, according to projections from Grand View Research and corroborating estimates from MarketsandMarkets. That growth rate — roughly 11% CAGR — has held remarkably steady despite macroeconomic volatility, primarily...

The gap between how organisations believe they manage contracts and how they actually manage contracts is one of the most consequential blind spots in legal operations. According to the International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM), poor contract management costs organisations an average of...

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...