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Gen AI and the Practice of Law 3 Report: Governance is the Key, not the Lock – Read it here now!
Legal IT Insider today (16 June) publishes its Gen AI and the Practice of Law 3 Report, which at over 100 pages, following over 35 hours of interviews with legal tech leaders, is not a light read, and nor is it intended be.
The first two reports in this series were descriptive: they asked what was happening as generative AI entered legal practice. Report 3 is different. The descriptive phase is closing. After three years of deployment, judicial scrutiny, client pressure and vendor consolidation, the question is no longer what the technology can do, but what a firm can defend, to whom, and on what evidence. That is a question of accountability rather than tooling, and it changes what governance is for. Governance is no longer a brake on the work; it has become the infrastructure that makes the work possible.
Written by our lead analyst, leading technology consultant, Neil Cameron, the report can be used as both a benchmark and a manual. The overriding finding, if it were possible to distil it, is that governance is the key, not the lock. Read more…
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From TAR TO HAR Report: Are GenAI Discovery Tools Ready for Forensic Scrutiny? Read it here now!
As generative AI moves from experimentation to production use in live discovery matters (Human AI-Assisted Review or HAR), the legal profession faces a question it has been collectively reluctant to answer: is the validation architecture that legitimised Technology-Assisted Review fit for purpose when applied to a technology that works very differently?
A new Legal IT Insider report, out today (9 March), draws on interviews with the leading voices in this area, including Judge Paul Grimm, Professor Maura R. Grossman, Professor Jason R. Baron, litigation and eDiscovery specialist Philip Favro, Jim Sullivan of eDiscovery AI, and senior practitioners at Consilio, Epiq, OpenText, Control Risks, Everlaw, and other major discovery service providers.
It argues that reliance on HAR under just the existing TAR framework is likely to lead to a major discovery failure and judicial sanction. More importantly, the article proposes what that necessary alternative framework looks like.
The report is written by lead analyst, legal technologist and former barrister Neil Cameron. If you are attending Legalweek New York or BLTF London, be sure to come and find us as we will have limited printed copies available too.
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Emerging Best Practices in Security
BEYOND THE PERIMETER: SECURITY AND RISK IN THE AGE OF LEGAL AI
We examine how the security foundations of the law firm are being re‑written as AI becomes embedded in everyday legal work. Traditional perimeter‑based security models were already under strain from cloud platforms and hybrid working; generative AI has finished the job. The report argues that the most significant shift is not technical but organisational: lawyers are now both the greatest source of risk and the most important security control.
Where real risk now sits – from shadow AI use and prompt‑driven data leakage, to privilege erosion, cross‑border data exposure and AI‑specific incident response.
The specifics of legal practice – privilege, confidentiality, regulatory exposure, client trust – for a world in which AI is no longer optional, the environment cannot be fully controlled, and resilience matters more than prevention.
Publishing: October 2026
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Practice management systems are expanding beyond scheduling and case tracking, integrating billing, automation, and analytics to streamline legal operations and boost profitability.
Publishing: November 2026
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The report explores how Gen AI has moved beyond legal tech hype to become a fundamental catalyst reshaping the practice of law. Unlike prior innovations like OCR or search platforms, Gen AI offers not just efficiency but ‘epistemological disruption’ – altering the role of lawyers from originators to curators of legal content. The article highlights a shift from pilots to enterprise-grade adoption across firms, with AI tools now embedded in research, drafting, due diligence, and even client-facing applications. It claims that Gen AI’s outputs are already “often indistinguishable from junior-level legal writing,” raising ethical questions about the authenticity and authorship of legal work.
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Legal IT Insider today (11 June) launches our first ever eDiscovery & Courtroom Evidence Systems Market Report, providing an unparalleled and independent view of the litigation software market.
What was once the domain of cardboard boxes, highlighters, and projectors, eDiscovery software is – and has long been – arguably the most sophisticated of legal software markets at the intersection of law and technology. This report, written by our lead analyst and longstanding legal technology consultant Neil Cameron, provides a deep dive into the providers, software, global shifts, latest trends and challenges in this hugely competitive and ever-changing sector.
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Legal IT Insider today (10 April) launches its first-ever Document Management System report, offering an exclusive deep dive into the leading legal DMS players, current market dynamics, and what’s next—complete with a comprehensive functionality comparison of top providers.
Written by our lead analyst and longstanding legal technology consultant Neil Cameron, the report provides an assessment of how DMS vendors are meeting customer needs, including tracking recent product developments, as well as analysis of what the future trajectory of content management is likely to be.
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