{"id":360518,"date":"2025-10-04T10:17:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T04:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/?p=360518"},"modified":"2025-10-04T10:17:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T04:47:58","slug":"survey-reveals-a-focus-on-ai-adoption-skills-and-risks-as-well-as-the-rapidly-evolving-legal-and-regulatory-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/survey-reveals-a-focus-on-ai-adoption-skills-and-risks-as-well-as-the-rapidly-evolving-legal-and-regulatory-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey Reveals a Focus on AI Adoption, Skills and Risks, as well as the Rapidly Evolving Legal and Regulatory Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gartner Survey Shows AI and Contract Analytics Are Urgent Priorities for General Counsel.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Artificial intelligence (AI) and contract analytics have emerged as urgent strategic priorities for general counsel (GC) in the second half of 2025, according to Gartner, Inc. a business and technology insights company.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cAccording to a Gartner survey of 104 GCs in July this year, more than a third of GCs (36%) are focused on adopting AI, building AI skills in their department or improving AI risk management in their organizations, highlighting the growing importance of technology to legal leaders,\u201d said\u00a0Laura Cohn<\/a>, Director, Research in the\u00a0Gartner Legal & Compliance Practice<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Further, 9% of GCs said they wanted to use advanced contract analytics and technology tools to better manage contract risks and reduce costs. While not the most selected topic, contract analytics notably comes ahead of several other important areas, such as defending critical legal department initiatives\/spend.<\/span><\/p>\n

These two topics \u2013 AI and contract analytics \u2013 have captured a significant amount of GC attention, along with the perennial priorities of evaluating the business impact of the rapidly evolving legal and regulatory environment and increasing the speed of assessing emerging risks (see Figure 1).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n

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Figure 1: GC Priorities: Most Urgent Topics in 2H25<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n
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Source: Gartner (October 2025)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIn a slowing economy, contract analytics\u2019 importance is growing, because it can help speed up contract processes, reveal risks, and identify renegotiation opportunities,\u201d added\u00a0Dian<\/a>\u00a0Zhang<\/a>, Senior Research Principal with the\u00a0Gartner for Legal, Risk & Compliance Leaders<\/a>\u00a0practice. \u201cHowever, adoption remains challenging, with over a third of GCs (37%) reporting relatively low confidence in using advanced contract analytics.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Based on this data, Gartner experts have identified four action areas for GCs in the second half of 2025:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  • Sharpen AI Risk Management
    \n<\/strong>GC should focus on identifying and mitigating the most significant risks associated with organizational AI use, drawing on peer governance models to inform their approach.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u201cEstablishing clear policy foundations, including risk tolerance, decision rights, and disclosure obligations, is crucial, as is managing third-party AI risks with targeted strategies,\u201d said Cohn.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    • Learn How Other Legal Teams Use GenAI
      \n<\/strong>GCs can accelerate AI adoption by learning how peer legal teams leverage generative AI (GenAI) to streamline operations and reduce costs. Reviewing real-world GenAI use cases\u2014such as analyzing enforcement trends or streamlining hotline case intake\u2014helps identify high-impact, feasible applications.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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      • Upskill the Legal Team on AI
        \n<\/strong>Building AI literacy within the legal team is critical for effective adoption and risk management. GCs should leverage existing training resources, collaborate with IT, and draw on law firm best practices for GenAI prompt engineering.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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        • Prioritize Contract Analytics Use Cases
          \n<\/strong>The success of advanced contract analytics initiatives depends on vendor selection and the readiness of people, processes and data prior to implementation. GCs should focus on addressing key legal challenges and carefully evaluate the benefits, risks, and maturity of each potential application.<\/span><\/p>\n

          \u201cBy aligning advanced contract analytics projects with business goals and considering factors like vendor capabilities and readiness, legal teams can drive ROI and improve the efficiency and consistency of enterprise contracting processes as well as overall contract compliance,\u201d said Zhang.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Gartner Survey Shows AI and Contract Analytics Are Urgent Priorities for General Counsel. Artificial intelligence (AI) and contract analytics have emerged as urgent strategic priorities for general counsel (GC) in the second half of 2025, according to Gartner, Inc. a business and technology insights company. \u201cAccording to a Gartner survey of 104 GCs in July […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9231],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-360518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}