CorporateLegal.tech

Surveys say nearly nine in ten general counsel now report AI use on their teams. Surveys do not say how much of that "use" is one attorney with a chatbot tab open next to Outlook. If your department's AI strategy fits in a bookmark bar, you're not alone. Here's how to tell, and what to do next.

Legal tech sales teams are, by and large, lovely people who genuinely want to help. They also speak a dialect that every legal ops professional eventually learns to translate. After years of demos, we've compiled the unofficial phrasebook. Share it with your team, laugh, and then ask the follow-up questions at the bottom.

This week brought reports that a legal AI startup is in talks to raise at a valuation around $8.5 billion. Meanwhile, somewhere in corporate America, a legal ops manager just got told "maybe next quarter" for a $12,000 intake tool. The money is clearly out there. It's just not in your cost center. Let's talk about it.

Another conference season has come and gone, and the legal tech industry has collectively agreed on a new favorite word. Last year everything was a "copilot." This year everything is "agentic." Your e-billing tool is agentic. Your DMS is agentic. The coffee cart was probably agentic. We made you a bingo card so next year you can at least win something.

It's budget season, and you want money for legal tech. Your CFO wants a reason. Most legal business cases fail because they talk about features and "efficiency" instead of the numbers finance cares about. This one-page template translates your request into cost, risk, capacity, and payback, the language that gets budget approved.