2026 Legal AI Report
Over the past few years, legal sector innovation has undergone a period of seismic growth — but 2026 may be the year the legal tech dam finally burst.
What began as cautious experimentation with narrow, task-specific tools has become something closer to a structural shift in how legal work gets produced. The tools stopped being demos and started becoming infrastructure. The questions around legal AI used to be “if” and “when.” The answers – definitively – have turned out to be “yes” and “now."
In the summer of 2026, DISCO engaged Ari Kaplan Advisors to conduct an online survey of 104 individuals (split evenly between law firm and corporate legal professionals), supplemented by 33 in-depth interviews, to better understand how their views and expectations of AI are evolving and where they see ongoing obstacles and new opportunities.
Read the results in our whitepaper.
2026 Legal AI Report
Over the past few years, legal sector innovation has undergone a period of seismic growth — but 2026 may be the year the legal tech dam finally burst.
What began as cautious experimentation with narrow, task-specific tools has become something closer to a structural shift in how legal work gets produced. The tools stopped being demos and started becoming infrastructure. The questions around legal AI used to be “if” and “when.” The answers – definitively – have turned out to be “yes” and “now."
In the summer of 2026, DISCO engaged Ari Kaplan Advisors to conduct an online survey of 104 individuals (split evenly between law firm and corporate legal professionals), supplemented by 33 in-depth interviews, to better understand how their views and expectations of AI are evolving and where they see ongoing obstacles and new opportunities.
Read the results in our whitepaper.
Over the past few years, legal sector innovation has undergone a period of seismic growth — but 2026 may be the year the legal tech dam finally burst.
What began as cautious experimentation with narrow, task-specific tools has become something closer to a structural shift in how legal work gets produced. The tools stopped being demos and started becoming infrastructure. The questions around legal AI used to be “if” and “when.” The answers – definitively – have turned out to be “yes” and “now."
In the summer of 2026, DISCO engaged Ari Kaplan Advisors to conduct an online survey of 104 individuals (split evenly between law firm and corporate legal professionals), supplemented by 33 in-depth interviews, to better understand how their views and expectations of AI are evolving and where they see ongoing obstacles and new opportunities.
Read the results in our whitepaper.
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