If the past couple of years have been about law firms scrambling to adopt generative AI, this year is about them scrambling to fill the governance gaps that are emerging and ensuring that they remain firmly in the driving seat. This report will take a deep dive into four layers of governance that need to be at the top of the agenda:
1. Strategic governance – firms are adopting AI without asking what problem they’re solving and how it fits into an ‘innovation spine’. How do they address that?
2. Process governance – the orchestration layer. How do you embed AI into workflows in a way that is auditable, deterministic, and accountable? What does good look like and who is building it?
3. Forensic governance – the validation gap. Courts are starting to ask how AI-assisted review can be defended. What standards are emerging and what do firms need to do?
4. Client-driven governance – clients as co-regulators. In-house departments are issuing AI questionnaires that are more demanding than anything the SRA has produced. Who sets the standards and where does the accountability sit?
The report will be written be our lead analyst Neil Cameron who also wrote our GenAI reports in 2024 and 2025. We will be publishing the latest report in June, so be sure to sign up to receive it in your inbox when it is released HERE.
You can read all of our previous reports HERE.
