Key Facts

• 26% of legal professionals now use generative AI at work, nearly double the 2024 rate of 14% according to Thomson Reuters
• 80% of legal professionals expect AI to have high or transformational impact on their roles within five years per Thomson Reuters research
• 31% of court professionals are hesitant to use AI — the highest hesitation rate among all surveyed legal roles reported by Thomson Reuters
• 40% of all jobs worldwide could be affected by AI, with white-collar and professional roles most impacted per IMF data cited by Harvard Law
• Consumer-grade AI tools like ChatGPT train on unverified web data and hallucinate legal citations, while professional-grade AI requires verified databases like Westlaw and LexisNexis warns Thomson Reuters
• LLMs cannot bridge client legal knowledge gaps without structured Intention-Elicitation and Context-Elicitation frameworks found Stanford Law researchers
• Harvard Law warns AI access inequalities will exponentially magnify the existing justice gap for underserved populations per Professor David Wilkins