{"id":158411,"date":"2026-07-27T07:39:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/27\/stats-of-the-week-believing-in-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T07:39:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:39:22","slug":"stats-of-the-week-believing-in-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/27\/stats-of-the-week-believing-in-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Stat(s) Of The Week: Believing In AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/stat-of-the-week-image.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-110065\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most law firms are adopting artificial intelligence more quickly than they\u2019re documenting its benefits, creating a \u201cstrategic blind spot\u201d that could bedevil COOs in the future, according to a new report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roughly two-thirds of the respondents in the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/674108b993d1\/92ol9a1nvx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">2026 Law Firm COO Survey Report <\/a><\/em>from Blickstein Group say their firm does not formally document efficiency gains from AI. As a result, the report says, the expected benefits of AI \u201cremain beliefs,\u201d but \u201cbelief and documentation are not the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf firms are investing in AI but not measuring the return, COOs will eventually have to answer challenging questions about these major investments in money and training.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report draws on a survey of 213 law firm COOs and principal administrators.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/674108b993d1\/92ol9a1nvx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">2026 Law Firm COO Survey Report<\/a> [Blickstein Group]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/stats-of-the-week-believing-in-ai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stat(s) Of The Week: Believing In AI<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/stat-of-the-week-image.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-110065\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most law firms are adopting artificial intelligence more quickly than they\u2019re documenting its benefits, creating a \u201cstrategic blind spot\u201d that could bedevil COOs in the future, according to a new report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roughly two-thirds of the respondents in the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/674108b993d1\/92ol9a1nvx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">2026 Law Firm COO Survey Report <\/a><\/em>from Blickstein Group say their firm does not formally document efficiency gains from AI. As a result, the report says, the expected benefits of AI \u201cremain beliefs,\u201d but \u201cbelief and documentation are not the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf firms are investing in AI but not measuring the return, COOs will eventually have to answer challenging questions about these major investments in money and training.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report draws on a survey of 213 law firm COOs and principal administrators.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/674108b993d1\/92ol9a1nvx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">2026 Law Firm COO Survey Report<\/a> [Blickstein Group]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/stats-of-the-week-believing-in-ai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stat(s) Of The Week: Believing In AI<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most law firms are adopting artificial intelligence more quickly than they\u2019re documenting its benefits, creating a \u201cstrategic blind spot\u201d that could bedevil COOs in the future, according to a new report.\u00a0 Roughly two-thirds of the respondents in the 2026 Law Firm COO Survey Report from Blickstein Group say their firm does not formally document efficiency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":158133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/stat-of-the-week-image-wsoxDn.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}