Artificial Intelligence

AI is changing how law firms should search for the executives who run the business. AI changes how work moves across a firm, and a position description written for an outdated workflow will attract a leader built for the old workflow.

The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence tools has created a new and often overlooked category of legal risk: the erosion of attorney-client privilege and work-product protection.

AI can accelerate document review, precedent analysis and other research tasks, but it does not replace professional judgment. Used effectively, it gives restructuring professionals more time to apply that judgment where it matters most: developing strategy, advising clients and advocating before the court.

How do you communicate when you know the harm before you know its cause? For law firms, it comes up both when advising a client and when explaining an incident of their own.

Not long ago, the operative question in cybersecurity planning was whether organizations needed to plan for AI-assisted attacks. Five national cybersecurity agencies have now answered that question, on the record, with a timeline measured in months, not years.

Legal leaders should be asking themselves if AI is making legal a more effective business partner. The legal teams pulling ahead aren’t necessarily those deploying the most AI. They’re the ones using it to remove friction across the business in ways everyone can see.

The future of law firm marketing is an integrated team of AI, experts and managed services.

Concluding that AI will eliminate the attorney reviewer, or even the broader document review market, misses a much larger change underway. The question is not simply how many people it takes to analyze a million documents. The more interesting question is: What happens when analyzing information becomes dramatically less expensive?