Market Trends of Legal Analytics Industry
Contract Management Offers Potential Growth
- Adoptation of AI in Contract Mangement is creating the demand for Legal Analytics. While human-based analysis is nearly 92% accurate, AI-based contract interpretation and summary for dissemination to affected personnel have 98% accuracy, as predicted by World Commerce&Contracting. According to Deloitte report , companies cut their contract management costs by 60% by adopting intelligent contract analytics. The manual intervention for contract evaluation will be reduced by 50%, if analytics applications are used.
- October 2022 - New York based law firm, Shearman & Sterling, launched analytics program called "Legal Operations by Shearman''.Services, such as data analytics, in-house department design, and legal technology assistance will be available on this platform. It will also guide towards generating additional revenue from business support personnel who do not typically earn a fee but instead possess extremely important knowledge that can benefit the clients directly.
- Consilio, a legal consulting, developed a new portal called Talent Connect, that will help provide flexible talent job opportunities serving Consilio clients, corporate law departments and law firms of all sizes. Consilio's Enterprise Talent Solutions team has over 1,000 attorneys actively engaged by clients each day and places over 7,000 legal and non-legal positions annually. eDiscovery, document review, risk management, and legal consulting services will also be available through this portal.
Europe is Expected to Witness the Significant Growth in the Market
- European clients choose legal firms, that they see as best-in-class partners who can demonstrate the expertise and technical applicability as per client requirement. In 2022 , Baker McKenzie took the top rank for the fourth year in a row, as clients cited the firm's strength in the area and its capacity to connect them with the rest of the world.
- Organizations in the UK are showing increasing interest in arbitration as a dispute resolution method.The UK judiciary has chosen a non-interventionist approach that is typically seen as "arbitration-friendly." Some of the world's biggest law firms are headquartered in the country. The UK legal sector's total turnover stood at USD 4.3 billion in March 2022, according to data published by Office of National Statistics (ONS).
- According to TheCityUK annual report on the UK's legal services, revenues generated by the sector rose 12.5%, accointing for 43.6 billion USD in 2021-2022. With total 0.37 million employees in legal sector, two-thirds of them are working in London.
- Eeropean Union policy makers, presented a proposal for Digitalisation of Judicial Cooperation in Europe. Regulation have been formed making digital means of communication compulsory. Legal guidelines supported by technological resources like legal analytics, alongwith training of legal professionals will pave the way for a more integrated, long-lasting, and safe e-justice system in the EU.