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Legal tech trends in 2026: Insights for business and IT leaders
AI advancements and security challenges shape legal tech in 2026, with firms adopting risk mitigation strategies for AI errors.
In 2026, legal tech leaders will focus on managing AI's imperfections and adopting risk mitigation strategies.
Executive Summary
In 2026, business and IT leaders in legal face a rapidly evolving technology landscape shaped by AI advancements, security challenges, and shifting governance priorities. Industry experts from iManage share insights on key trends set to redefine organisational strategies. The AI hallucination crisis will reach a critical juncture, prompting firms to adopt pragmatic risk mitigation strategies, such as enforcing human oversight and taking hallucination insurance policies. Middleware companies will face competition on niche features, while platform owners capture core data value. Agentic AI will undergo a reality check as the gap between marketing promises and actual capabilities becomes evident.
Source: Legal Futures
Authors: Legal Futures
Published: 2026-01-14
Original Article: https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/associate-news/legal-tech-trends-in-2026-insights-for-business-and-it-leaders
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