In an interview with Artificial Lawyer , Paris-based AI-native consulting firm owner, Olivier Chaduteau, set out a three-part account of the current state of AI in the legal sector. At first, lawyers dismissed AI as irrelevant to expert work. In the second, organisations bought licences to LLMs to signal activity to partners and/or clients, but little else. He says the market has now entered a third stage, in which firms understand it’s time to engage with the AI tools at their disposal. Chaduteau said to engage with AI on an operational level, firms should focus on change management, choosing the right operating models, and reforming their business models. It’s necessary to rewrite workflows, re-train the lawyers on the books, set standards for AI use, and decide where human review needs to be in the workflow. These are, he acknowledged, political questions that are much more challenging than stage one’s decision, which comprised largely of which large language model or law-specific AI service to buy into.…