Legal Teams Lean More on Outside Providers and AI, Survey Shows

Corporate legal teams are expanding their reliance on outside service providers and artificial intelligence to meet a heavier workload, according to a new survey.

Forty-seven percent of general counsel and chief legal officers said they rely on outside service providers to handle increases in work and risk, according to a survey published Wednesday by FTI Consulting Inc and the legal tech company Relativity ODA LLC. That’s up from 32% who said they were relying on outside service providers last year.

A growing share of legal leaders are also relying on AI: 39% said they’re using AI to address increases in ...