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From Activity to ROI: What Sets High-Impact Legal AI Teams Apart [Webinar Recording]

Alex Denniston
March 19, 2026

Most legal teams now have AI access. Far fewer are seeing measurable ROI.

In this session, we unpack the findings from the 2026 GenAI in Legal Benchmarking Report, including why trust is the inflection point for impact, what is getting in the way of adoption, and what higher-performing legal teams are doing differently.

Some key moments:

Tara Waters highlighted the importance of capability building: “We’ve nearly solved the access question. Now we move on to ability and enablement... trust is a key point there.”

Will McKinnon emphasized the need for legal leaders to keep testing, sharing what works, and leaning in more actively if they want adoption to spread across their teams.

Alex Denniston drew out the central theme in the data: access is increasingly common, but trust is what determines whether AI actually changes how legal teams work.

Watch the session to see where your team sits and what it takes to close the gap between access and ROI.

The report will be launched on March 20th. Request your copy here.
 

82%
of legal teams now have AI access
22%
report high trust in outputs
3X
High-trust teams are 3x more likely to report positive ROI