AI Leaders community index

Comprised of three rounds of polling from December 2025 to June 2026, Briefing’s AI Leaders community index — conducted in partnership with Harvey — takes a deep dive into how law firm leaders are engaging with genAI, as the technology evolves at pace.

The research explores how ‘AI Leaders’ — firm leaders with C-level or equivalent responsibility for genAI investment, planning, or decision-making — are encouraging adoption, identifying both use cases and success metrics, and managing the client-value conversation and potential business model change.

Interactive graphs bring readers the ability to compare how genAI trends, priorities, opportunities and challenges have changed over the last year. Plus, AI leaders from Clarke Willmott, Charles Russell Speechlys, DAC Beachcroft, Gateley Legal, Keystone Law and Simmons & Simmons bring a mix of in-depth insight and advice for navigating the fast-moving genAI landscape.

Rise in numbers planning for AI impact on the business model and outcome since December 2025

Half or more leaders say the firm is developing or exploring use cases across document review, drafting, research, knowledge management and business development

A third have already made some changes to their governance framework to ensure agent control

More than multi-step AI agents, almost three-quarters of leaders indicate they want more progress in the creation of practice-specific workflows or playbooks for people to follow and so scale adoption

One third admit they don’t know how clients feel about new opportunities for collaboration using genAI