Extract from Justin Smith’s article “Beyond the Data: Your Action Plan for AI-Powered Ediscovery”
The 2025 Ediscovery Innovation Report confirms that generative AI is no longer a future trend, but a present force transforming how legal work is done, billed, and valued. The report’s insights offer a glimpse into how legal professionals are thinking about this technology, where they’re finding the most benefits, and where there’s still room for improvement.
But once your organization has started planning how it wants to use generative AI, how do you then begin to innovate and incorporate it into your regular workflows? How can you achieve the time savings and efficiencies outlined in the report? This list of action items, outlined below, aim to help kickstart your team’s gameplan for the generative AI era.
Reclaim Time for Higher-Value Work
Legal professionals are already using generative AI to handle tasks like research and document review at a pace previously unheard of. The report reveals that nearly half of all respondents use generative AI to save between one to five hours per week, which can amount to 260 hours saved annually. For an average Am Law 200 firm, these savings equal more than 196,820 hours per year reclaimed across the organization.
