"The legal sector is on a new disruption path now and our partnership with SparkBeyond will turbo-charge the change in our business. The collaboration will give us unparalleled insights into the future of legal services and what they could be if only we had a wider perspective," said Ben Allgrove, Baker McKenzie partner and global head of research and development. "Understanding these unseen drivers and roots causes driving future client demand will allow us to shape the future of our business. Thereafter we plan to quickly explore, with our clients, how we might co-create a range of new value across the legal, tax and compliance functions." Baker McKenzie's needs and the needs of law firms generally are that they have a massive amount of disparate and siloed data and want to supplement that data with legal information that exists outside the firm's firewall, says Pulikkan.

After a slow start, the legal industry is beginning to ramp up the adoption of artificial intelligence, says Peter Pulikkan, a partner at SparkBeyond, …