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Legal Innovation Spotlight is a weekly look at how the legal industry actually innovates. 137 conversations since August 2023 with firm leaders, founders, in-house counsel and analysts from across the market.
The tools arrived in 2024. The business model showed up in 2026.
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2023
8 episodes
- 25% Technology platforms
- 25% Knowledge management
- 13% AI adoption and strategy
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2024
41 episodes
- 51% AI adoption and strategy
- 34% Innovation and change
- 7% Knowledge management
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2025
52 episodes
- 42% AI adoption and strategy
- 33% Innovation and change
- 13% Data, security and governance
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2026
36 episodes
- 58% AI adoption and strategy
- 14% Innovation and change
- 14% The business of law firms
Half of every 2024 episode was about adopting AI. The questions that decide whether any of it pays off, pricing, partnership, how a firm gets paid, do not crack the top three until 2026. Two years is how long the industry spent on the tools before turning to what they cost it.
Where the attention went
The bottom of this list is the argument. Open any subject to see its episodes. Counted from episode titles, so an episode can sit in more than one subject and 25 of 137 match none of them. Percentages are a share of all episodes, not of each other.
Most recent
- The Legal Industry Has a Data Problem AI Can’t Fix Akber Datoo, Founder and CEO of D2 Legal Technology
- AI is Replacing Routine Legal Work, Not Lawyers Brian Powers, Co-Founder & CEO of Markups.ai
- The Future Belongs to AI-Ready Legal Departments Bjarne Tellmann, CEO of FjordStream Advisors
- Why Smart Lawyers Keep Making Dumb AI Decisions Anastasia Boyko, Legal Innovation Consultant at The Yoga Unicorn
- Why Behavioral Innovation Is the Next Competitive Advantage Lucía Elizalde-Bulanti, Director of Behavioral Innovation at Dechert LLP
- Great Legal Technology Starts With Better Processes John Barbera, Head of Business Architecture & Enablement at Burford Capital