Legal Departments Move From Testing AI to Governing It

Speed Without Structure: What Legal AI Is Really Exposing

By Dan Hoadley, Clio. AI is speeding up legal work in increasingly visible and practical ways. Drafting cycles are compressing. Legal research that once took hours now takes minutes. And, law firms…

Built By Barristers, Australia’s New AI Tool Takes On Legal Research Giants

Australia’s increasingly crowded legal AI market has another challenger, with Sydney-based BarristerAI has launching an AI legal research platform built specifi

Legal AI will create more work, but not for lawyers

Every wave of generative AI produces the same two headlines: “AI is destroying the industry” and “actually, AI is creating more work for the industry.” Whether this is for graphic designers, developers, or copywriters, the debate plays out the same way across sectors. Legal is no exception. Against this backdrop, the legal industry provides a useful test case as it’s one of the first professional domains where specialised, workflow-specific AI h…

FutureLaw 2026. Legal AI Infrastructure in the Mid-Market: Moving from Hype to Actionable ROI

“If one doesn’t know to which port one is sailing, the wind is not favourable.” — Mori Kabiri, Founder, Legal Ops KPIs Mid-sized law firms are currently caught in a technological crossfire. On one side, massive global partnerships project dazzling marketing campaigns showcasing deep-pocketed artificial intelligence deployments. On the other side, legal tech vendors present […]

Legal Departments Move From Testing AI to Governing It

For decades, the legal department was one of the last enterprise functions to adopt new technology at scale. The work was too nuanced, the stakes too high, and the profession too cautious. Generative AI changed the pace of experimentation. Agentic AI is changing the pace of deployment, and this week the Prompt Economy turns its attention to what that shift looks like inside corporate legal. AI agents are now reviewing contracts, monitoring regul…