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What is actually known, and who established it.

Almost everything a firm reads about legal AI was written by someone selling it. The Library is the part that was not — independent studies, ethics opinions, court decisions and industry research, each read carefully and held against the rest of the shelf.

There is a great deal of writing about AI in legal practice and remarkably little evidence in it. The Library is the Institute's attempt to separate the two: every entry here is a real, verifiable work, classified by the area of practice it bears on, summarised in the Institute's own words, and set against the others — because the authorities disagree, sometimes sharply, and a shelf that hid that would be less useful than one that shows it. Several entries are published by organisations with a commercial interest in the answer. Where that is so, the entry says so, which is more helpful than leaving such work out.

12 works on the shelf

Filter by area of practice, or browse the shelf. Each entry opens the Institute’s full reading.

AI adoption conciergeorientation · not legal or ethics advice
Gladly. Tell me what the firm is deciding right now — whether to adopt something, how to verify output, what to charge, or how to think about where this is going — and I will point you at the two or three works on the shelf that actually bear on it.