BigLaw shifts in 12 months from 'hallucinating chatbots' to AI-first legal workflows
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-10-20
A legal-tech practitioner observes that in the past 12 months BigLaw went from dismissing AI as "hallucinating chatbots" to partners handing associates heavy legal research with the expectation that AI makes it far faster.
The author argues this is still scratching the surface and envisions proactive agent workflows:
- Diligence reports and regulatory approval lists prepared before the data room email is even opened
- Document revisions running in the background upon client comments
- Client alerts drafted proactively from new regulatory developments
All feasible with today's AI — the bottleneck is conservative law firm culture catching up.
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