Newsletter 2026 - 2nd Week

·        Legal ops commentary for 2026 stresses consolidation: partnering with fewer, more strategic providers and breaking down silos between legal, compliance, and risk to move decisions faster.

·        Association of Corporate Counsel content highlights scaling AI “from experiment to value‑creation” in three priority areas: contract review, predictive analytics, and standardized prompt frameworks.

·        NetDocuments’ trends report notes that “intelligent work” is about maximizing every lawyer minute, via context‑aware search, automated filing, and surfaced insights within productivity tools rather than separate apps.

Litigation, eDiscovery, and data: numbers that matter

·        U.S. litigation support surveys for 2026 suggest 46% of respondents expect AI’s biggest impact in the next five years to be in eDiscovery and data review, with predictive analytics used by about 38% for trial preparation planning.

·        Everlaw’s earlier trends data showed a 48% year‑over‑year increase in documents hosted and a 92% jump in audio/video files transcribed, underscoring that data volume and format complexity continue to outpace manual methods.

·        Using Early Case Assessment, Everlaw users were able to exclude nearly three out of four documents on average (74% reduction), promoting only about one quarter of ingested documents into active review, a powerful data point for Proxiio’s ECA‑driven managed review messaging.

Contracts, CLM, and compliance: toward “ubiquitous” systems

·        Future‑trends content for in‑house counsel predicts that by 2026, about 25% of first‑draft documents in corporate environments will be AI‑generated, with CLM platforms acting as the primary surface for that drafting.

·        Deloitte’s and other analysts’ research suggests that 75% of legal and regulatory compliance teams expect AI to heavily affect data management and analysis practices, and 43% expect to use AI proactively to mitigate risk.

·        Several 2026 outlooks argue CLM will be “as ubiquitous as CRM and ERP,” sitting at the center of commercial, legal, and finance flows—making it a natural target for Proxiio’s contract‑management support and playbook‑driven review offerings.

Compliance and governance

·        KPMG’s predictions emphasize that gen‑AI services will require robust knowledge management and data‑steward roles to ensure quality; “modern law librarians” will curate training data and templates.

·        Surveys show that 85% of departments already have governance structures for AI, but many still lack standardized metrics for accuracy, bias, and ROI—an opening for Proxiio to package governance‑ready workflows and reporting.

·        Legal ops trend pieces stress that sustained transformation depends on culture and process design as much as tools, highlighting change‑management and training as key differentiators for vendors and ALSPs