AI and the Legal Department of 2026: What’s Changing (and What’s Not)
Richard Royce
February 16, 2026
ELMA: Agentic AI
Legal Automation
Complete Automation
for Legal Teams.
Empower your legal team in their AI journey. Easily automate bespoke and routine processes, include agentic steps in workflows, create AI agents, and simplify how you work.
Build, test and scale automations with confidence and precision, and deploy instantly. Choose a pre-configured automation from the Automations Library built by our experts, or create your own. Connect with over 200 enterprise tools and integrate with all leading LLMs so that you can tailor legal workflows exactly how you need them – no code expertise required.
One platform. Endless possibilities.
Build Workflows
Build custom legal workflows by describing modular steps in plain English. No developers, no delays, just fast, intuitive automation. Simplify, test, and scale automations with clarity and precision.
Conversational Agents
Instantly deploy intelligent legal conversation agents and chatbots to triage, respond to, and route legal requests.
Process Data and Documents
Extract, classify, summarise, and manage contracts and structured data at scale. Create, group and reuse structured data with table or document views. Upload files, and metadata, and automate with ease.
Integrate with Existing Apps
Connect with 200+ platforms including Microsoft 365, Google Drive/Workspace, Salesforce, SAP, Oracle, and DocuSign to create seamless, end-to-end legal workflows.
Agentic Workflow Automation
Automate repeatable, high-friction processes in minutes. By combining AI with configurable workflows, legal teams can reduce manual effort, improve turnaround times, and focus on higher-value work.
Automate new request data collection and triage with email agents and chatbots to respond or ask for additional information on your behalf, improving responsiveness and consistency from the first touchpoint.
Agentic Workflow Automation
Automate repeatable, high-friction processes in minutes. By combining AI with configurable workflows, legal teams can reduce manual effort, improve turnaround times, and focus on higher-value work.
Generated from legal records. Automatically create a structured timeline of key legal events from documents and records, supporting faster matter understanding and accelerating the path to wider case strategy.
Agentic Workflow Automation
Automate repeatable, high-friction processes in minutes. By combining AI with configurable workflows, legal teams can reduce manual effort, improve turnaround times, and focus on higher-value work.
Securely convert audio or video recordings (such as historical interviews or evidentiary recordings) into accurate, searchable text, to review, analyse, and reference content quickly without manual transcription.
Agentic Workflow Automation
Automate repeatable, high-friction processes in minutes. By combining AI with configurable workflows, legal teams can reduce manual effort, improve turnaround times, and focus on higher-value work.
Translate legal documents into any required language while fully preserving the original structure, formatting, and layout, ensuring translated versions are immediately usable for review, filing, or negotiation without rework.
Contracts Intelligence and Analysis
Bring intelligence directly into the contract lifecycle, with assistance in playbook generation, drafting and repository analysis. Connect your knowledge sources to benefit from faster processing and instant insights across your managed contracts.
Query multiple contracts and internal knowledge sources simultaneously using natural language, surfacing accurate answers without manual searching.
Contracts Intelligence and Analysis
Bring intelligence directly into the contract lifecycle, with assistance in playbook generation, drafting and repository analysis. Connect your knowledge sources to benefit from faster processing and instant insights across your managed contracts.
Accelerate contract creation by generating first drafts aligned to company templates via guided workflows.
Contracts Intelligence and Analysis
Bring intelligence directly into the contract lifecycle, with assistance in playbook generation, drafting and repository analysis. Connect your knowledge sources to benefit from faster processing and instant insights across your managed contracts.
Review contracts against defined playbooks to flag deviations and highlight risks, supporting faster, more confident decision-making.
Contracts Intelligence and Analysis
Bring intelligence directly into the contract lifecycle, with assistance in playbook generation, drafting and repository analysis. Connect your knowledge sources to benefit from faster processing and instant insights across your managed contracts.
Upload your “gold-standard” contracts to instantly transform your institutional knowledge into structured, reusable playbooks, guiding negotiation and ensuring consistency in contract drafting.
Spend Insights Agents
Turn invoice and spend data into actionable intelligence. By connecting directly to invoice and matter data stores, Spend Insights Agents improve transparency, reduce administrative effort, and support better financial decision-making.
Get instant, AI-driven responses on invoice statuses and automate approval follow ups and next steps with email integration.
Spend Insights Agents
Turn invoice and spend data into actionable intelligence. By connecting directly to invoice and matter data stores, Spend Insights Agents improve transparency, reduce administrative effort, and support better financial decision-making.
Analyse invoice data to identify trends and anomalies, helping your legal team control spend and optimise vendor performance.
IP Agents
ELMA supports specialised IP use cases, combining AI analysis with workflow automation to reduce risk and improve efficiency in patent and innovation processes.
Interrogate existing patent and trademark databases and assess novelty through conversational queries, accelerating early-stage risk analysis of potential infringements.
IP Agents
ELMA supports specialised IP use cases, combining AI analysis with workflow automation to reduce risk and improve efficiency in patent and innovation processes.
Extract deadlines and required actions from patent office communications and triggers summary emails to the intended recipient, improving efficiency and accuracy in managing filings.
Powered by AI. Controlled by YOU.
Faster workflow deployment
Unlock efficiency and time savings through automated workflows, standardise repetitive processes, and empower your team to focus on tasks of greater importance.
Lower operating costs
By automating repetitive legal tasks and integrating with existing systems, the ELM Automation Agent minimises manual effort and resource overhead.
Efficiency gains
With modular workflows and AI-driven automation, the ELM Automation Agent streamlines processes, eliminates bottlenecks, and accelerates turnaround times.
Measurable ROI
Track performance and outcomes with detailed reporting, ensuring the ELM Automation Agent delivers tangible savings and improved productivity.
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