Seven Key AI Trends from ILTACON 2025
ILTACON 2025 marked a clear turning point: AI is fundamentally reshaping legal workflows, expectations, and firm structures. Success now depends on strategic alignment—prioritizing human judgment, secure implementation, and tangible outcomes over novelty alone.
The eBrevia team engaged in meaningful conversations with legal and business professionals there, and noted seven key themes coming that will shape how law firms and corporate legal teams leverage AI in the coming 6-12 months.
The eBrevia team speaks to ILTACON 2025 attendees about trends in legal tech.
Generative AI is mainstream. This year, the conversation shifted decisively from “Will we use it?” to examining exactly how Gen AI is being used effectively, responsibly, and with measurable outcomes. Tools like eBrevia Lens, which lets legal and business professionals to quickly extract information and gain insights across thousands of contracts using natural language, are significantly streamlining workflows.
Search is foundational. Effective legal AI starts with context. Intelligent search now sets the stage by surfacing relevant precedent before any analysis or generation.
Right tool, right task. It wasn’t about chasing the latest trend, but rather strategically choosing tools depending on a project’s scope, risk, and budget. eBrevia has partnered closely with major law firms, consulting businesses and corporates since our inception in 2011, we’ve evolved alongside our clients and the technology. When ILTA attendees noted the trend it rang true to us.
Integration is critical. The real value in legal AI comes from seamless integration into workflows, especially embedding into tools like HighQ and iManage, so lawyers don't bounce between tabs. eBrevia Connect integrates our AI with more than 2,000 business applications, databases and systems, allowing data to be pushed and pulled simply and easily. Integration is critical to cross-departmental collaboration.
Data protection and auditability. With AI now deeply embedded in workflows, firms are focusing on protecting sensitive data across systems, and maintaining full transparency, without sacrificing usability. That means a purpose-built solution like Contract Analyzer or DraftPro is critical. While it might be tempting to use widely available AI tools to complete tasks, they open firms up to unacceptable levels of risk.
Firms fighting commoditization. With AI commoditizing many legal tasks, firms are responding by making their knowledge more accessible and designing "sticky" client engagements that can’t be easily unbundled. eBrevia CTO Jake Mundt spoke to this dynamic during his talk at Legal Innovators California in June. “If your outside counsel is not helping you build better processes, build software, if they’re not sharing the tools and saying, ‘This is how we do it, it’s awesome and you should adopt these tools.’ If they’re not giving you that kind of expert guidance — that’s what you’re paying them for,” Mundt said.
Outcomes matter. Law firms are demanding hard metrics such as time savings, improved quality, client satisfaction, not just adoption counts.
Contact us at info@ebrevia.com to learn more about eBrevia’s AI-driven products and features — Contract Analyzer, DraftPro, eBrevia Lens, eBrevia Connect and Prep — or to schedule a demo.
About eBrevia
eBrevia is a leader in AI contract analysis and management with clients in the US, UK/Europe, and Asia. For over 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.
