In December 2023, Legaltech Hub surveyed firms globally to determine what the real state of play was in the market at the end of what we could call year one Post-ChatGPT (PCGPT1). The overall takeaway from this, and from several closed door sessions I attended towards the latter half of the year, is that things had progressed further and more traction had been made than many expected – especially from large law firms and some larger corporate legal departments. In the US particularly, but also in competitive markets such as Canada and Australia, large law got busy with well-designed research and development efforts to experiment with advanced AI and uncover relevant legal use cases. The most surprising insight from our survey, though, was what it showed about the comparative state of legal innovation in the United States versus the United Kingdom.
