Artificial Lawyer Features eBrevia CEO Adam Nguyen on the Future Economics of Legal AI
AI has made legal work faster — but who benefits?
For years, the legal AI conversation has focused on capability: what the technology can do, how quickly it can transform workflows and where it can create efficiencies. Now, as adoption accelerates, a more complex question is emerging: Where does the value created by AI ultimately go?
That question is at the center of a new thought leadership article by eBrevia Co-founder and CEO Adam Nguyen, featured in Artificial Lawyer. In The AI Dividend: Who Gets the Savings From Legal AI?, Nguyen examines how AI is reshaping legal work, and why the expected financial impact has not always materialized in the places many anticipated.
The article begins with a simple observation that captures the current moment in legal AI:
“Faster? Yes. More efficient? Sometimes. Less expensive? That’s still very much in question.”
As legal AI moves from experimentation into everyday use, organizations are increasingly asking more sophisticated questions about return on investment, workflow design and how technology can create sustainable value across the legal ecosystem, including corporate legal departments, law firms and technology providers.
That perspective is informed by eBrevia’s experience building AI solutions for contract review, analysis, drafting and negotiation for more than a decade. Working with global enterprises and leading law firms has given us a firsthand view of how organizations are approaching AI adoption as an opportunity to rethink how legal work gets done.
Customer feedback and close collaboration between product, engineering and client teams remain central to that approach. The result is a practical understanding of where AI delivers measurable impact, where challenges remain and what legal teams need from technology partners as the market continues to evolve.
In the article, Nguyen argues that the next phase of legal AI should focus not only on automation, but on creating better operating models around legal work. As he writes:
“Every major technology shift creates a dividend. When technology lowers the cost of producing work, someone captures the value.”
The question facing the legal industry is how to ensure that value translates into meaningful outcomes for everyone involved. For corporate legal teams, that may mean greater efficiency and improved business support. For law firms, it may mean new opportunities to deliver higher-value services. For technology providers, it means building solutions that create measurable ROI and lasting impact.
Artificial Lawyer has long been a leading voice in covering the evolution of legal technology and the questions shaping the future of the industry. eBrevia is pleased to contribute to that conversation with a perspective grounded in years of working alongside the legal professionals using AI in practice.
Read the full article in Artificial Lawyer:The AI Dividend: Who Gets the Savings From Legal AI?
About eBrevia
Established in 2011 and trusted by some of the world’s most prestigious companies, eBrevia is a leader in AI contract analysis, review, negotiation and management with clients in the US, EMEA, and APAC. For more than a decade, eBrevia has served law firms, corporations, audit/consulting companies, and financial institutions, such as Baker McKenzie, Norton Rose Fulbright, Kroll, SAP, Intel, PwC, EY, and MUFG.
