Most of the attention on AI in legal practice has focused on generative tools: drafting, summarizing, answering research questions. This guide is about what comes next. Agentic artificial intelligence doesn't respond to prompts. It pursues goals. You hand an agent a contract to process and it reads the document, selects the playbook, drafts redlines, routes the file, and updates the matter record without being re-prompted between steps. The lawyer's job shifts to designing the workflow,...

I wrote this guide because the conversation most law firms are having about artificial intelligence is pointed in the wrong direction. The question firms keep asking is how to cut costs and reduce hours. That question has an answer, but it leads somewhere bad: in a billable-hour model, efficiency means less revenue. And when you tell clients that AI makes your lawyers faster, the next thing they ask is why they're still paying the same rates. The question worth asking is different: what can...

Before joining Gravity Stack, Bryon Bratcher served as Reed Smith’s global Head of Client Technology Solutions, the group responsible for...