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Generative AI for Legal

Seizing the opportunity

As Generative AI (GenAI) matures rapidly, CLOs and legal departments have powerful new tools at hand—to increase their productivity and even transform the legal function. In-house lawyers will also play a central role in navigating their organizations through the legal and regulatory challenges of ever-improving GenAI.

The transformative potential of GenAI for Legal

With Generative AI, chief legal officers (CLOs) and their legal departments have the opportunity to transform their operating model while helping guide their organization through the legal implications of use and intellectual property.

The latest generation of GenAI, based on machine learning, will profoundly affect the work of in-house lawyers. For daily administrative activities and routine legal work, GenAI is already boosting productivity and efficiency. More advanced systems can summarize, draft, and analyze documents. In the longer term, GenAI will build compliance into businesses' operating processes and help them identify legal risks at an early stage. Eventually, it will empower people across organizations to undertake everyday legal work for themselves.

CLOs face the challenge of staying on top of new developments, embracing change, adapting to new roles, and ensuring their businesses are leveraging relevant GenAI capabilities. The future promises a more strategic and impactful legal profession, powered by the transformative power of AI—but only if the moment is seized starting now.

The law of GenAI

GenAI brings risks as well as benefits. It falls to CLOs and legal departments to protect their organizations by staying on top of the wide range of legal developments and risk best practices. Deloitte Legal can help you to develop and put in place a flexible, future-facing strategy for both your legal department and the enterprise as a whole. Here’s how:

Watch now: Legal’s role in the race to embrace GenAI

In July 2025, we hosted a LinkedIn Live explaining why legal leaders should act now to capture the opportunities of GenAI rather than wait. Deloitte Legal experts and special guest Richard Susskind discussed the immediate GenAI legal issues general counsels and chief legal officers need to address so their legal teams and broader organizations can responsibly embrace this transformative technology.

The session was hosted by Richard Punt, Deloitte Global Legal Leader, with panelists Rosemary Martin (Senior Advisor, Deloitte Legal UK), Sebastiaan Ter Wee (Partner, Deloitte Legal Netherlands), and Melinda Upton (Partner, Deloitte Legal Australia).