Your outside counsel firms are starting to use AI — which means the work you're paying for is being delivered differently, whether you know it or not. Meanwhile, your CEO is asking what AI means for the legal department's budget, your team is experimenting with tools that haven't been vetted, and the vendors calling you can't explain why their platform is better than the models your team can already access directly.
Every quarter you wait, the GC offices that started earlier are demonstrating more value to their C-suite, handling more work with the same headcount, and making the case for investment that puts them ahead of departments like yours.