Your Lawyers Are Adopting AI Twice as Fast as Your Firm Is: The 2026 Adoption Gap Is Creating Ungoverned Risk Nobody Is Pricing

New 2026 industry research finds AI use among legal professionals has more than doubled in a year — roughly 69% now use general-purpose AI tools for work — while firms lag far behind as institutions. Fewer than half provide training on responsible use. That gap isn't an adoption story. It's a governance story, and its consequences land in billing, confidentiality, and the ledger.