National Law Review
7/10/2026

Stop Moving Your Legal Data. Start Connecting to It.
Short summary
Legal organizations suffer from data fragmentation across eDiscovery, contract analysis, and AI document tools, leading to duplicate storage costs and significant person-hours spent reconciling versions. The author argues AI should serve as an orchestration layer connecting existing platforms rather than becoming another data destination. This approach preserves data provenance and defensibility while reducing the trust problems that arise from constantly moving legal data between systems.
- •Legal data fragmentation creates hidden costs in storage, licensing, and reconciliation labor
- •AI should orchestrate existing systems, not become another data silo
- •Connected data preserves provenance and defensibility critical to legal work
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