In a recent Law.com article, leading experts predict how AI will shape legal services, change the business of law, and impact the courts in 2026.
Among the group is Managing Director Joseph Pochron who says: “Synthetic media, aka ‘AI deepfakes’ will put a real constraint on traditional legal norms. Evidentiary standards of authentication will accelerate, acceptance of expert witnesses in this space will be a challenge, and even readily accepted concepts like chain-of-custody will be revisited when dealing with this type of content.”
According to the article, a range of changes will take hold over the next year, including law firm associates increasingly adopting gen AI, agentic AI taking off for law firms’ back-office functions, and courts grappling with AI-created evidence/AI-related cases. There is also growing attention in the legal industry over the struggle to realize ROI from AI investments, and concern over the potential far-reaching consequences of an unsustainable “AI bubble” buoyed by record investments and a wave of new startups.
