Few technologies have been adopted by legal departments as quickly as generative artificial intelligence. In an international survey by ACC and Everlaw from 2025, 53% of inhouse lawyers said they already use generative AI in their legal work. In Europe, the figure was 61%. The share of those who neither use generative AI nor plan to now stands at 2%. It is used most often for drafting (73%), followed by legal research (53%) and communication and collaboration (51%).

Yet anyone observing the teams that handle complex transactions or large-scale proceedings will encounter a striking bottleneck. Despite substantial investment in AI licences and case management infrastructure, lawyers still rely on a tool introduced five decades ago: the clipboard (Ctrl + C / Ctrl + V).

Lawyers craft precise arguments in the chat window and then spend ten minutes manually pasting paragraphs into Word, adjusting templates, matching case references, filing documents in the document management system and entering deadlines into the calendar by hand.

This friction stems from a structural divide in the enterprise legal tech market: the gap between individual intelligence and process intelligence.…

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