Inhouse Embraces AI…And Does Little With It
Artificial Lawyer
2mo · 5 min
A new survey finds in-house legal teams are enthusiastic about AI in principle — but a wide gap remains between that enthusiasm and what's actually being implemented.
A new survey by LegalOn has found empirical data that supports what Artificial Lawyer is hearing on the legal tech street, namely that while inhouse teams have now largely onboarded AI tools, their use level remains minimal and it’s having little meaningful impact.
As the graph below shows, and as LegalOn explained: ‘Despite 92% of teams using AI, the market remains immature, with the majority of these teams still in the earliest stages of adoption.’
‘Ordered left to right, from least-to-most advanced (Laggards to Innovators), the shape is telling: more than half of respondents (54.9%) are still in the experimentation phase, exploring prompts and tools without shared workflows or standards.
‘Standardizing prompts and workflows (26.5%) puts you ahead of roughly two-thirds of the market. Reaching connected knowledge (8.8%), where AI is grounded in your own playbooks and policies rather than generic prompts, puts you in the top 11%. A single-digit handful (n=2, 2.0%) describe full workflow support across intake, triage, contract work, and post-signature insight.’
In short, only 2% are really using inhouse legal AI platforms to their full extent.
And yet AL has also heard a few great anecdotes about how some inhouse teams have really embraced AI, and some have even massively cut outside legal spending…..but, these are the outliers for now, as the data shows. But, things will change.…
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