Extract from Sam Brock’s article, “The Human Layer: How to Support Your People During AI Adoption.”
For all the focus on AI tools, the real challenge in adoption is human. Legal teams eager to capitalize on new tech in lasting, transformative ways take several approaches to navigating that challenge: building trust in AI outputs, redefining core skills, and helping professionals adapt to new ways of working, to name a few.
Our 2026 AI Visionaries offer deep and impactful insights into this effort. As their perspectives make clear, successful AI implementations depend on training, governance, a steady hand, and – reassuringly, for those who still shiver a little at the idea of “robolawyers” – a renewed emphasis on expert judgment and critical thinking.
