Main purposes of using GenAI at law firms worldwide 2024

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Raphael Bohne,
Mar 11, 2025

In 2024, the main purpose of legal professionals using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) worldwide was for document summary. Almost 20 percent of respondents stated this as their answer. The next most popular answer in the survey was document analysis and/or data extraction, with 17 percent of respondents who gave this as their answer.

Main purposes of using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) at law firms worldwide in 2024

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Release date

November 2024

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

July to September 2024

Number of respondents

463 legal professionals

Supplementary notes

Respondents were asked: "What was the main purpose of using generative AI?"

Legal service professionals from 36 countries were represented in the survey.

Broken down by region:

Western Europe: 45 percent
Eastern Europe: five percent
Southern Europe: 37 percent
Northern Europe: 10 percent
Other countries: three percent.

Other countries were Brazil, Cameroon, India, Israel, Japan, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, and the United States.

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