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Agentic AI in Legal Practice (2026)

What agentic AI actually means for law firms -- beyond the marketing hype, into real deployments, real risks, and real results.

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Agentic AI is the most overhyped term in legal tech — and also the most important emerging capability. The ABA's own magazine called out that 'agentic' is often just marketing dressing on a chatbot. But real agentic deployments at firms like A&O Shearman are producing measurable results. These guides separate the real from the fake.

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Manu Ayala

I’m Manu Ayala. I spent five years doing legal investigations for a US law firm. Now I run AI Vortex, where I help firms figure out where they actually stand on AI and build the infrastructure to get to where they need to be. I write about what I find at aivortex.io/legal.