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AmLaw 100 deployments, billing, and partnership shifts.
Agentic AI is coming to legal work, but Thomson Reuters says oversight is still the constraint.
Thomson Reuters Institute data shows agentic AI is following the adoption curve of GenAI in professional services, but legal buyers remain focused on oversight, ethics and education.
The 8am report shows the legal AI policy gap is now a firm-management problem.
8am’s 2026 Legal Industry Report says generative AI use among legal professionals more than doubled, but firm-level policy and training are still lagging individual behavior.
The most AI-forward law firms may have the least confident associates. That is a management problem.
A Chambers survey points to a striking disconnect: firms selling sophisticated AI advice to clients may still be struggling to make their own junior lawyers confident users of the same tools.
Agentic AI will fail in law firms unless information governance gets promoted first.
The next wave of legal AI is agentic, but agents can only reason over what they are allowed to see. That makes information governance a product requirement, not a back-office function.
BigLaw does not have an AI problem. It has a document infrastructure problem.
Before firms can scale generative AI, they need the unglamorous layer: clean document management, searchable work product, metadata discipline and systems that do not collapse under daily practice.
GCs now want outside counsel to track and explain AI use. That changes the pitch deck.
KPMG survey data cited by Above the Law says 82% of general counsel expect outside firms to track and share AI use in client matters. Transparency is becoming a buying criterion.
Harvey raises $300M Series E at a $5B valuation as enterprise contracts mount
The legal AI company latest round, led by Sequoia, brings total funding to $792M and reflects a doubling of valuation in nine months.
How four BigLaw firms quietly retrained their associates to compete with AI
Inside the playbook at Cravath, Skadden, Wachtell, and Sullivan & Cromwell where first-year billables are down 19%, and the practice of law is being rewritten in real time.
We are not replacing lawyers. We are replacing the boring 60 percent: A conversation with Spellbook CEO
On contract drafting, why partners are easier to sell to than associates, and the one feature he will not ship.
AI is making your lawyers faster. But is it making your legal team faster? How to actually measure ROI.
The time savings from AI drafting are real but they keep disappearing into review, verification, and rising output volume. Here is the measurement framework that separates firms with genuine productivity gains from those running a faster hamster wheel.
Coding agents are becoming the customization layer for legal tech — and most firms aren't ready
A new pattern is emerging: instead of waiting for vendors to build the features they need, forward-thinking legal teams are using AI coding agents to extend the tools they already have. The implications are profound.
The agentic legal workflow arrives: what the first real-world deployments look like
The legal industry has been promised agentic AI for three years. In 2026, it is finally shipping — but the real deployments look nothing like the demos. A close look at what is actually running, where, and how it is being governed.