This month’s edition of LegalTech Diaries tackles a question that’s become increasingly urgent for the legal industry: how do we move from AI experimentation to genuine transformation?

As adoption accelerates, the gap between technological capability and organisational readiness is becoming impossible to ignore. The challenge isn’t access to tools – it’s maturity: having the strategy, governance, workflows, and confidence to embed AI into legal work in a way that delivers measurable outcomes.

This edition explores what real progress looks like when legal teams stop treating AI as an add-on and start designing for scale. From modern operating models and intelligence-led decision-making to the evolution of legal research and disputes, the message is consistent: transformation requires foundations, not shortcuts.

The future belongs to organisations that can execute with discipline, build trust and transparency into their approach, and empower people to work alongside intelligent systems, not around them.

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