3 Trends That Will Define Legal Work in 2026 – Harvey
Three emerging trends show how mobility, AI adoption, and evolving workflows are reshaping the way lawyers work.
Legal work has undergone a significant shift in recent years. It not only happens across environments, it also happens across digital tools and devices. Lawyers review documents in transit, respond to stakeholders across time zones, and rely on multiple devices to keep matters moving. At the same time, AI has become a routine part of legal reasoning and drafting.
Even with this progress, key questions remain about what modern legal work actually looks like: How often are lawyers turning to AI? Which devices do they depend on? Where does friction persist in their day-to-day work?
To answer these questions, we conducted a global survey of 200 legal professionals (not necessarily Harvey users) across North America, EMEA, and APAC. The resulting report, How Mobile and AI Transform Legal Work: 2026 Outlook, offers new insight into how mobile work and AI are impacting legal practice — and where critical gaps remain.
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