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Technology,
Law Practice

Feb. 17, 2026

The impact of general-purpose AI on legal practice, staffing and the economics of legal research

For decades, legal research rested on the scarcity of authoritative information; general-purpose AI now places that assumption under pressure by changing how experienced lawyers test, refine and pressure-check legal reasoning.

Neal J. Fialkow

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The impact of general-purpose AI on legal practice, staffing and the economics of legal research
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For decades, legal research and legal staffing have rested on a largely unexamined assumption: that authoritative legal information is scarce, expensive to curate and inseparable from the daily work of individual lawyers. From that premise flowed an entire economic structure. Research platforms charged high per-seat prices. Law firms distributed access broadly. Junior lawyers learned by retrieving law...

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