Extract from Ari Kaplan’s article “Planning for an AI-Centric Litigation Future: Unfiltered Insights on the State of the Legal Profession”
The emergence of artificial intelligence and the rise of tools like ChatGPT continue to disrupt and reshape the broader business landscape, and now AI seems to be everywhere in the legal world. But with this growth comes increased pressure to balance the promise of deploying generative AI and emerging technologies with the challenges of implementation and adoption.
This is raising the level of uncertainty for law firm and corporate legal department leaders to unprecedented heights. To help them better understand current advancements and obstacles, and to plan in an unpredictable environment, I had the privilege of interviewing 32 professionals and gathering quantitative data from 112 individuals, evenly split between law firms and corporate legal departments.
The research, conducted in late summer of 2025, aims to identify trends in legal AI, highlight similarities and differences in the factors driving its adoption, and the challenges faced by law firms and corporate legal departments.
