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ARTICLE · 23 SEPTEMBER 2026

Why Legal AI Adoption Stalls Before It Starts

Moving from scattered experimentation to a structured approach legal teams can actually adopt. Ask a law firm CIO or corporate legal leader whether the organization has rolled out AI, and the honest answer may depend on where they look.

GlobalTechnology

Betsy Parker

AI Adoption Expert, NetDocuments

Moving from scattered experimentation to a structured approach legal teams can actually adopt.

Ask a law firm CIO or corporate legal leader whether the organization has rolled out AI, and the honest answer may depend on where they look.

The official AI project is still in planning. The policy is still under review. The training plan isn’t finished. But users are already experimenting. A partner is testing a legal research tool with AI features. An associate is using a public tool to clean up a first draft. A practice group is piloting a new workflow. In a smaller firm, one administrator is trying to set policy while also supporting users. In a larger firm, IT, KM, records, risk, innovation, and practice leadership are all working through pieces of the same problem.

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