The Lawyers Went First
The Lawyers Went First

YPO Technology Network AI Brief by Stephen Forte

Episode notes

In five days, the legal industry became the fastest-moving corner of enterprise AI, and not one of the three signals behind that sentence is a sales claim. OpenAI's own usage data shows lawyers as its fastest-growing population of agent users. Google shipped a legal-specific agent product with four of the world's most prestigious law firms as named launch customers. And Thomson Reuters, the company behind Westlaw, built its own AI model rather than keep renting one, and said what it cost.

The profession everyone assumed would move last is measurably moving first. This episode is about why, and about the three signals that will tell you when your own industry's turn has come.

In this episode, Stephen Forte covers:

  • The number buried in OpenAI's Enterprise Signals data: weekly active enterprise Codex users grew 108x in leg ... 
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Keywords
legal AIAI adoptionOpenAI CodexGemini EnterpriseThomson Reutersdomain-specific AI modelsbuild vs rent AIprofessional services AI