Source: The Register
The legal sector, despite early enthusiasm for AI tools, shows measurable resistance to actual integration. The Register's reporting on what lawyers actually did versus what vendors claimed exposes a recurring pattern: enterprise sectors adopt AI incrementally for narrow, high-ROI tasks (document review, legal research) rather than the wholesale transformation vendors promise. Law is a leading indicator for other high-liability professions. If attorneys—who have both financial incentive and computational problems to solve—are implementing AI cautiously, it suggests that friction, regulation, and the stubborn economics of replacing expensive talent with uncertain systems may be what actually constrains AI disruption in professional services.