Legal Departments Lag in AI Adoption: 52% Still in Pilot Phase as Agentic AI Looms
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Scott Bien
Summary
The legal industry faces a growing gap between rapid AI advancement and slow departmental adoption. While agentic AI promises to transform in-house legal work through automated multi-step workflows, 52% of legal departments remain stuck in pilot phases with generative AI, and only 23% have achieved full deployment and operational status, according to the Blickstein Group Law Department survey.
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Technology is simply advancing faster than legal departments can effectively implement it.
The next wave – agentic AI – promises to automate and execute multi-step workflows and change the nature of in-house legal work end-to-end.
52% of legal departments are still in pilots with generative AI, with fewer departments (23%) saying they are fully deployed and operational.
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