The age of agentic AI

Is 2025 the year super-powered AI bots transform the legal industry?

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Tech bosses from Microsoft to Nvidia predict 2025 to be the year that AI agents begin to enter the workforce. Could these super-powered virtual assistants transform how law firms use technology, driving efficiency and competitiveness in the year ahead? For this month’s feature we delve into this transformative trend, speaking to one firm that believes the answer to this question is a resounding ‘yes’.

In LPM January 2025 we hear from:

  • Avantia Law founder and CEO James Sutton explains how he sees the advent of agentic AI disrupting and defining the legal services industry — as the venture capital-backed ABS focuses on legal innovation with the launch of its own AI agent Ava
  • Eaton-Evans & Morris CEO Sarah Charlton sums up the forces most impacting the UK SME legal market in 2025
  • Schofield Sweeney managing partner Graham Sweeney spots opportunities for regional firms to broaden their horizons

Plus:

  • Lucie Allen, managing director of global legal training provider BARBRI, makes the case for saving solicitor apprenticeships as she describes the vital role these programmes play in growing and diversifying the profession

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