Legal IT Insider’s Third GenAI Report Frames Governance as the Key, Not the Lock

Legal IT Insider published Gen AI and the Practice of Law 3, a 100-plus-page report based on more than 35 hours of interviews with legal tech leaders. The thesis is that after three years of deployment, judicial scrutiny, client pressure and vendor consolidation, the central question is what a firm can defend, to whom and on what evidence. The report is a marker for the post-pilot phase of legal AI. Governance is no longer a brake; it is becoming the infrastructure that makes AI-assisted legal work defensible.