iManage published a sponsored column in Lawyers Weekly Australia (July 28) making the operational case for knowledge as governed infrastructure: firms at the highest level of knowledge maturity are nearly twice as likely to report year-over-year revenue growth as those at the lowest level. The core argument is that competitive advantage in the AI era is not which model a firm licenses — most firms
Thomson Reuters reported on the British Legal Tech Forum 2026 (July 29), finding that most UK law firms are now transitioning from experimentation (tinkering, testing) to systemisation (embedding AI into established ways of working). Legal research is now the leading GenAI use case (80% of deployers, overtaking document review for the first time). CoCounsel passed one million users globally. Fewer
Source: Thomson Reuters: What British Legal Tech Forum 2026 Revealed About AI AdoptionLegal EngineeringLegal KMLegal OperationsStrategy & Operating Model Morae Global Corporation (research by Coleman Parkes, 850 senior legal professionals, US/UK/Australia/Middle East, February–March 2026) released findings on August 1 showing that only 33% of senior legal professionals trust the results of AI-assisted legal work, while 67% are concerned that human verification and oversight costs may outweigh AI's efficiency benefits. The data foundation is the pro
Source: Morae Global Corporation: Only 33% of Legal Professionals Trust the Results of AI-Assisted Legal WorkLegal EngineeringLegal KMLegal OperationsStrategy & Operating Model A widely-circulated LinkedIn analysis published July 23 articulates the clearest strategic framework for legal KM in the AI era: treat foundation models as cloud compute — a commodity you swap as price and performance shift — and treat the skill layer as your knowledge bank, an asset you never let a vendor hold hostage. The analysis identifies a concrete architecture: an AI Resource Center as a "s
Source: LinkedIn: Own the Skill, Rent the Model — Ted TheodoropoulosLegal EngineeringLegal KMLegal OperationsStrategy & Operating Model Clifford Chance announced the deployment of a new AI Knowledge Management platform on July 20, 2026, designed in partnership with Epiq Advisory for Law Firms, the firm's KM team, and Microsoft. The platform encodes institutional knowledge into proprietary firm-wide AI agents — the firm's first deployment of the "knowledge vault" model that treats curated work product, practice guides, and preceden
Source: Legal IT Insider: Clifford Chance Pairs with Epiq Advisory and Microsoft for KM PlatformLegal EngineeringLegal KMLegal OperationsStrategy & Operating Model Willkie Farr announced a collaboration with OpenAI on July 22, 2026 to accelerate the development and deployment of next-generation AI solutions across its legal and business operations, including a firmwide AI platform. The partnership positions Willkie alongside a small set of BigLaw firms that have moved from vendor evaluation to co-development mode with foundation model providers — a structura
Clifford Chance has launched a full AI-enabled Knowledge Management platform — the Knowledge Bank — developed in partnership with Microsoft and Epiq Advisory for Law Firms. The platform curates 400,000+ firm documents reclassified and summarised, delivering natural language search, summarisation, smart tagging, and generative answers through a modular, scalable architecture built entirely within M
Source: Artificial Lawyer: Clifford Chance Launches AI KM Platform With Microsoft + EpiqLegal EngineeringLegal KMLegal OperationsStrategy & Operating Model OneAdvanced hosted a mid-year review webinar for its tenth annual Legal Trends Report, examining progress against the five key challenges it identified for the legal sector in January 2026. A separate TalkingTech webinar on July 7, also hosted by Legal IT Insider, featured Elite's CTO John Machado addressing "one of the most pressing challenges facing law firms today: how to build from data chaos
Source: Legal IT Insider: Webinar — From data chaos to AI readinessLegal EngineeringLegal KMLegal OperationsStrategy & Operating Model Evette Pastoriza, chief information officer of Mayer Brown, gave a detailed account of the firm's GenAI scaling strategy in a Legal IT Insider interview published July 9. The central architectural decision at Mayer Brown is that training is a prerequisite gate: no lawyer or staff member receives access to Copilot or Harvey until they complete the compulsory curriculum, which begins with risk, ethi
Source: Legal IT Insider: Training, adoption and the buy-v-build question — How Mayer Brown is scaling GenAILegal EngineeringLegal KMLegal OperationsStrategy & Operating Model Thomson Reuters' 2026 AI in Professional Services Report — drawn from 1,500+ professionals and now in its fourth year — documents a doubling of GenAI adoption among law firms and in-house teams, from 14% to 26% in a single year. Use cases have matured from exploratory to core: 74% of adopters use AI for legal research, 59% for briefs and memos, 58% for contract drafting. The report formally declar
Source: Thomson Reuters Institute: 2026 AI in Professional Services ReportLegal EngineeringLegal KMLegal OperationsStrategy & Operating Model Data from the same Thomson Reuters report, as reported by GlobalLegalPost, reveals a client-demand signal that KM and innovation leaders should treat as a forcing function: 59% of corporate law departments now want their outside counsel to use GenAI, and 8% are already requiring it in formal tender documents. This is no longer internal innovation pressure — it is procurement pressure. Firms withou
Source: GlobalLegalPost: Number of legal professionals using Gen AI jumps sharply over past yearLegal EngineeringLegal KMLegal OperationsStrategy & Operating Model