The New Copilot: AI is Setting Precedent for Litigation.
Litigation support has increasingly embraced artificial intelligence as a high-value asset, transforming how evidence is discovered, reviewed, and prepared. Document review, once one of the largest drains on time and resources for legal teams, has been fundamentally reshaped. Traditionally, attorneys and analysts spent weeks sifting through massive volumes of data, including contracts, emails, and filings, often under tight deadlines. Now, according to the American Bar Association, AI systems can “quickly analyze, sort, and identify key information from legal documents,” allowing in-house counsel to complete in hours what once required weeks of manual effort. This shift directly addresses one of the biggest financial pain points in litigation, since human document review has historically accounted for nearly 70 percent of discovery expenses.
Thomson Reuters reports that many legal departments now deploy predictive coding tools to “identify relevant documents in connection with e-discovery requests,” which drastically reduces workload while improving consistency and accuracy in relevance tagging. This level of precision ensures greater defensibility under regulatory scrutiny and minimizes the risk of oversight.
Experts believe this is just the beginning. According to Deloitte’s 2025 Legal Technology Outlook, most corporate legal leaders expect AI to become an “embedded co-pilot” across all areas of legal work within the next three years. They predict that AI will evolve from a back-end analytical tool into an operational partner capable of surfacing strategic insights. As this shift accelerates, legal departments that integrate AI effectively will not only cut costs but also redefine their role from reactive support to proactive strategy.
-Taylor Howard
Chief Marketing Officer, Blue Sky Compute
Taking organizations from AI to ROI.
American Bar Association (2025) How AI Enhances Legal Document Review. Available at: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/law_practice/resources/law-technology-today/2025/how-ai-enhances-legal-document-review/ (Accessed: 11 November 2025).
Thomson Reuters (2025) Artificial Intelligence and Corporate Legal Departments. Available at: https://legal.thomsonreuters.com/en/insights/articles/artificial-intelligence-ai-report (Accessed: 11 November 2025).
Deloitte (2025) Legal Technology Outlook 2025: How Generative AI is Changing Legal Department Functions. Available at: https://www.deloitte.com/global/en/services/legal/perspectives/how-generative-ai-is-changing-legal-department-functions.html (Accessed: 11 November 2025).
