Extract from Rhys Dipshan’s article “Legal Tech’s Predictions for Artificial Intelligence in 2026”
With three years of experience with generative artificial intelligence behind them, those in the legal industry now know more about the technology’s potential—and its limitations.
Industry watchers see a range of changes taking hold over the next year, including law firm associates increasingly adopting gen AI, agentic AI taking off for law firms’ back-office functions, and courts grappling with AI-created evidence and more AI-related cases, from intellectual property to personal injury and beyond.
There is also growing struggle in the legal industry over the struggle to realize ROI from AI investments, and concern over the potential far-reaching consequences of an unsustainable “AI bubble” buoyed by record investments and a wave of new startups.
