Five Ways Generative AI Is Reinventing Modern Litigation Workflows

Five Ways Generative AI Is Reinventing Modern Litigation Workflows by Justin Smith Reading Time — 5 minutes April 14, 2026 Facebook LinkedIn For decades, the discovery phase of litigation has involved a rigorous, manual search process. Legal teams often found themselves in a high-stakes game of digital hide-and-seek, leveraging armies of associates and contract review attorneys to search through millions of documents . While these methods were long considered the norm, the sheer volume of modern data has pushed these legacy processes to their natural limits, often delaying strategic insights u