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A fortnightly field note on legal AI - the market, the research, the practitioners. 42 editions and counting.
2026
8 editionsThe frontier moved in three different directions this fortnight, but each one is a different shape of the same thing: the product is moving quicker than the institutions meant to…
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Three pieces of research landed in the second half of March that, taken together, tell a clearer story than any one of them manages alone.
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Five major model releases in a single fortnight - GPT-5.4, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Grok 4.20, MiniMax M2.5 - all with million-token context and agentic capabilities.
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This was the fortnight the market started pricing in consequences.
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The viral post (~50M views) from an AI startup CEO claiming he's no longer needed for the technical work of his job.
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The article argues that the next edge in legal AI comes from firms that treat legal work as something that can be structured, measured and optimised.
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The report describes how the consumer AI market in 2025 has begun to consolidate around a few dominant players.
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Predictions Wrap Up Edition.
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2025
26 editions2025 Predictions In Review.
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Revisiting the 'jagged frontier' argument for AI.
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The article reports that as legal and corporate teams pour money into AI tools, they are now being asked to prove those tools are worth the cost.
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RSGI interviewed 40 organisations (29 law firms and 11 in-house teams) to analyse how Harvey is actually used and what value it delivers.
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According to McKinsey's 2025 global survey, AI use is very widespread - 88% of respondents say their organisation uses AI in at least one business function.
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The survey shows that 95% of the top 100 UK law firms achieved fee-income growth last year, while firms foresee an average 16% of hours saved through AI adoption in the near term.
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The survey finds that AI adoption is accelerating: 61% of lawyers now use generative AI in day-to-day work (up from 46% earlier in the year).
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Addleshaw Goddard is ranked among the Top 10 Most Innovative Law Firms in Europe (8th), marking our sixth consecutive year on the list.
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Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an emerging open standard that lets AI systems securely connect with external tools and data.
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The article warns that AI's biggest problem is not messy data or bad models -- it is being wrong with confidence.
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The launch of GPT-5 combines better reasoning, quicker output, and handles more complex tasks.
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PwC has revealed a new M&A platform, developed in partnership with Harvey.
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Based on a 10K+ employee global survey, BCG's AI at Work 2025 report reveals critical insights about how generative AI is being adopted, or rather under-adopted, at work.
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Mark Cohen explains how AI is challenging the traditional law firm model, which relies on a pyramid of junior lawyers doing routine, time-based work.
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Anthropic showcases how multi-agent AI systems can collaborate on complex research.
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Bain & Company's May 2025 global survey of 1,200 business leaders reveals that 70% of executives have either implemented or piloted genAI, more than double from the year before.
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Garfield AI uses generative AI to lead service delivery, with humans in the loop only when necessary.
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The article based on surveys of over 1,000 GenAI users reveals that while adoption has grown significantly in 2025, most people still use GenAI for simple tasks like drafting emai…
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Research by Anthropic into how Claude 'thinks' when solving problems or carrying out instructions.
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McKinsey's State of AI report covers an overview of how artificial intelligence is being deployed across industries.
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The MS Report underscores the transformative impact of AI agents on business productivity, collaboration, and innovation.
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The Vals Report evaluates the performance of 4 legal AI tools - CoCounsel (Thomson Reuters), Vincent AI (vLex), Harvey Assistant (Harvey), and Oliver (Vecflow) across 7 common leg…
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Links have updated their AI Benchmark to now include Open AI's o1 and Google's Gemini 2.0 models.
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DeepSeek R1 is a newly released open-source LLM designed to deliver strong reasoning capabilities and cost-efficient performance, positioning itself as a competitor to the big pla…
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The UK Government have published their AI Opportunities Action Plan, their strategy on how to leverage AI as a nation.
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Looking at predictions from across the market we have pulled together the key themes that people are expecting 2025 to have in store.
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2024
8 editionsAnnual Law Department Operations Survey.
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Revolut's Legal team have been building a Commercial Contract AI Copilot with Google's Gemini model.
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The rise of AI agents is built on a "stack" approach, where modular AI components are combined to perform specific tasks.
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This update combines conversational capabilities with real-time search functions.
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Clifford Chance shared details about their full roll out of Copilot.
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OpenAI ran a day for developers and shared what they have been working on.
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MS Copilot is expanding its features, including being more integrated across Office apps and some advancements around Copilot Studio.
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This is a step forward in reasoning capability, using chain of thought prompting and spending time coming up with the best approaches for reviewing received instructions.
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