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Legal AI Readiness Assessment Ten honest questions. No email required to see your score. You'll get a profile across five dimensions and see where you sit, and your answers become an early data point in the benchmark we publish.
Strategy & Leadership Does your firm/team have a documented AI strategy? No strategy, and no current plans Informal: a few people are interested A written strategy exists but isn't fully resourced A funded strategy with clear goals and an executive sponsor
Who owns AI adoption? Nobody in particular It's a side-of-desk task for someone in IT or ops A named person or committee has it as part of their role A dedicated role or team (e.g. innovation / legal engineering)
Tooling & Infrastructure Which best describes your AI tooling today? None, or general consumer chatbots used ad hoc A general AI assistant (e.g. Copilot/ChatGPT) with a license At least one legal-specific AI tool in production Multiple integrated legal-AI tools across practice areas
How integrated is AI with your document, matter, or DMS systems? Not at all: separate tools, copy-paste Lightly: a few manual connections Integrated with core systems for key workflows Deeply integrated, including your own data/knowledge base
Workflow Adoption How is AI used on actual client/matter work? It isn't Experiments and pilots only Regularly for some tasks (research, review, drafting) A standard, expected part of how work gets done
Roughly what share of relevant staff use AI weekly? Almost none A small group of early adopters Around half A clear majority
Governance & Risk Do you have a written AI-use policy? No In progress / informal guidance Yes, a documented policy staff are aware of Yes, and it's enforced with training and review
How do you handle confidentiality and AI accuracy (e.g. citations)? No specific controls Verbal caution but nothing formal Defined controls (approved tools, verification steps) Controls plus monitoring/audit of AI outputs
Talent & Training Have staff been trained to use AI effectively for legal work? No training One-off demos or optional resources Structured training for the teams that use it Ongoing training with prompts/playbooks and internal experts
Do you have people whose job includes deploying/governing AI (e.g. a legal engineer, innovation lead, or KM lead)? No Someone does it informally on top of their real job At least one part- or full-time role A team, with a roadmap and headcount
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