Legal ops unlocked 2025: Get future-ready or fall behind

In 2025, as client expectations grow, legal matters become more complex, and digital transformation accelerates and redefines law firms and legal departments, having optimised and future-ready legal operations is more critical than ever.

In this evolving landscape, the role of legal operations has greatly expanded. From AI-driven contract review and document automation to comprehensive matter management and real-time analytics, today’s legal ops professionals are harnessing advanced tools to boost their productivity, strengthen compliance and improve service delivery. With AI legal assistants, explainable AI (XAI), and cyber security tools now integrated into daily operations, laws are transforming how they manage risk and safeguard data.

Lawyers Weekly’s new e-book is designed to help legal professionals navigate this new era of transformation, offering insights on emerging technologies, smart operational strategies, and tools to position their teams for long-term, sustainable success.

This guide provides key insights across nine chapters:

• Business management
• Cyber security
• Document automation
• Legal AI assistants
• Legal analytics and XAI
• Legal practice management software
• Optimising the legal function
• Step change
• Workflows