Agentic AI in Law

As a directional estimate, most firms remain early on the agentic AI curve: 42% are still experimenting and 28% piloting, while only 18% report scaling and just 12% call their use mature. That means seven in ten firms have not yet moved agentic tools into production workflows. Corporate/M&A shows the most advanced posture in this scenario (20% scaling, 10% mature), while litigation skews earliest (52% still experimenting) - consistent with courts' higher tolerance risk for autonomous, multi-step actions. For legal teams, the practical read is that agentic AI is still mostly a pilot-stage bet, not yet a default operating mode.