Tessa Bartley comments in Legal Futures about our framework for choosing the right legal AI tools

The rapid development of legal AI tools is creating new challenges for lawyers seeking to identify solutions that genuinely enhance legal practice. As the market becomes increasingly crowded, firms are moving beyond vendor demonstrations by testing technology in real-world legal environments. Thorough assessments shed light on how effectively tools can support lawyers’ day-to-day work.

A data-driven approach to AI evaluation is becoming increasingly important, particularly as users seek to distinguish between efficiency gains and substantive legal capability. Practical testing across legal research, drafting, document review and summarisation can provide valuable insight into whether a tool demonstrates a genuine understanding of legal concepts, reasoning and terminology, rather than simply delivering rapid results. 

Legal Futures spotlights our report, titled A practical guide to choosing the right AI tools for your firm, which sets out how we conducted a head-to-head assessment of five leading AI platforms. This process enabled lawyers from across the Firm to evaluate performance using real legal tasks. The findings highlighted legal competence and contextual understanding as key factors in building user trust and confidence in AI outputs.

Tessa Bartley, our Head of Legal Technology, comments in Legal Futures:

Our data shows that what differentiates products, and builds trust, is whether they demonstrate genuine understanding of legal concepts, use terminology appropriately and grasp the complexity of legal work.

As AI capabilities and competitive dynamics continue to shift rapidly, it’s time to consider alternative frameworks. Organisations that build better assessment processes will make better decisions faster.

Read the full article in Legal Futures here.