AI is everywhere in legal. Trust is another matter. Nearly half of legal organisations have now embedded AI into their workflows. Yet just 33% of senior professionals trust the results according to a Morae Global study. That disconnect should give technology leaders pause for thought.

The problem may not be the AI itself, but what we’re asking it to work with. Legal teams are deploying increasingly powerful tools across fragmented systems and disconnected data sources – creating technology islands that struggle to provide the context AI needs to deliver genuinely useful answers.

And so the promised productivity gain can quickly become something else: a new layer of checking, cross-referencing and validation. An AI Verification Tax, quietly eating into the efficiency gains organisations hoped AI would deliver.

So, what does it take to move beyond isolated AI tools and towards something more joined-up?

On 1 October at 1pm BST, Legal IT Insider editor Caroline Hill will moderate a live, interactive panel with senior technology leaders from Morae and the legal sector to explore the shift towards Unified Legal Intelligence – connecting data, workflows, AI and human expertise to support more trusted, actionable decisions.

The discussion will tackle some important questions:…

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