Everlaw 2026: 49% of legal pros use gen AI (+12 pp YoY). Easy headline.
Harder for Europe/Balkans: when usage jumps, does your stack know which law is in force, or only how to sound confident?
Ask vendors for the audit path, not only chat UI.
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A model can finish a legal task and still leave something you cannot send to a client. That gap is the product problem.
Technically complete ≠ client-ready (jurisdiction, cites, audit path).
Eval only on fluency or “task done” ships risk onto the firm’s letterhead.
@harvey Tracked changes in Word: lawyers already live there. Less friction.
When an agent edits counsel’s draft, does the authority set stay pinned to in-force text the firm approved, or can fluent rewrite drift the legal basis?
UI helps adoption. Version pinning helps sleep.
So I split evaluation:
1) recall: candidate text found?
2) citation-version fidelity: binding version, right article, date and place?
Wrong version + high recall = professional-risk error. Relevance alone is the easy half.
CG: pogrešna verzija propisa ≠ blaga greška.
Legal RAG demos love recall.
“We retrieved the relevant statute.”
The failure mode I care about: you retrieved *a* statute, not necessarily the version in force for that jurisdiction on that date.
@gen_legal_inc This framing matters more than another raw accuracy table.
“Task finished” and “lawyer can defend it to a client” are different products.
Would love to see more evals that fail a run when the cite points to a superseded version, even if the prose looks done.
@everlaw 49% usage is the adoption curve.
Curious what share of that usage sits on workflows with an explicit citation / version check versus freeform chat.
The report number is useful. The missing operational metric for buyers is still “wrong statute, confidently delivered.”
@thdxr The issue is that not everything should be automated by AI.Many people use AI to build software that is inherently AI-native and unnecessary.I’ve experienced this myself; then I realized that some tasks are better to be maintain deterministic processes (ofc built fastly with AI)
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