The acquisition combines Repario’s discovery and infrastructure business with UnitedLex’s wider legal services operation. How the two will be integrated, and what changes for clients, is not yet spelled out.

Legal departments have spent years measuring law firms after the work is assigned. AI is bringing that accumulated performance record forward, to the point where the next assignment is made.

The knowledge was already there. What changed is the cost of finding and using it. At RLLB, leaders from Equinix, Cargill, GoPro and Phillips 66 showed how decades of contracts, disputes and risk decisions can become an advantage for the business.

Legal has learned to measure AI against the hours it saves. Agents complicate that math by performing work no legal team would have commissioned from humans in the first place.

At NEXT Insurance, iFood and Expedia, faster legal work depends on a continuing investment in the knowledge behind the answers. That investment is part of AI’s economics.

AI-generated work is moving between employees, vendors and counterparties with little visibility into what happened upstream. Sourcefit CEO Andy Schachtel says the harder governance problem is reconstructing that chain—and knowing what the person at the end is actually judging.

Demand is rising while legal headcount and outside spend flatten. Robert Scott’s bet is that some legal judgment can be captured once and applied many times—raising a harder question about what clients are paying lawyers to do again and again.

Consilio’s 2026 survey finds leadership-driven legal organizations further along in AI deployment—and carrying heavier integration burdens. Moving beyond the pilot is only the first test of transformation.

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) laws are forcing companies to account for packaging with the same discipline they bring to other regulated business data: ownership, documentation, deadlines and cost exposure.