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Inside the Legal AI Talent Market: E-Discovery Professionals Are Moving Into Firmwide AI Integration

By Jared Coseglia
May 01, 2025

Editor’s Note: With this issue, we begin a new monthly column from TruStaffing CEO and longtime contributor to Cybersecurity Law & Strategy, Jared Coseglia: Inside the Legal AI Talent Market. Having analyzed the legal tech job market for over 15 years, Jared is uniquely positioned to report on a segment of the industry that is not often discussed in trade publications the job market. In this first installment, Jared discusses his findings from Legalweek ’25.

Legalweek Takeaways: E-Discovery Professionals Are Moving Into Firmwide AI Integration

One of the most striking themes coming out of Legalweek 2025 was the clear shift in how law firms are beginning to operationalize generative AI — and who’s driving that transformation.
For decades, litigation support professionals have been a unique and vital part of law firm operations, often the only business unit outside of attorney billing that consistently built robust revenue, if not profit centers. That legacy is now laying the groundwork for something bigger: a redefinition of how law firms are leaning into e-discovery professionals to deploy generative AI technology across practice groups beyond litigation and e-discovery.

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