Why AI Transformations Fall Short: What Real Estate Practices Reveal
Across Orbital's AI Adoption Benchmark of real estate lawyers, daily AI use ranges from 14% to 55% — among firms with broadly similar tools. The variable isn't technology; it's operating model: pricing, workflow design, and behaviour. Real estate, with fixed-fee dominance and indemnity-mapped risk, makes it the best practice group test case.
This session combines live benchmarking, breakout discussion, and group synthesis to move past the hype cycle and into the operating-model decisions that determine whether AI sticks. Delegates will benchmark their own practices against Orbital's data, surface the structural blockers they're seeing day-to-day, and leave with a sharper view of where to focus their own transformation efforts.
Key Takeaways
AI adoption is largely determined by operating model
Pricing structures shape adoption incentives more powerfully than tooling decisions
Real estate offers the clearest lens for understanding what genuine AI transformation requires across the wider firm
This session is part of LegalTechTalk 2026, Europe’s Event for Legal Transformation. A dynamic, annual in-person festival bringing together 5,500+ attendees from 75+ countries and over 400 industry-leading speakers across two days, on 17-18 June 2026 at InterContinental London - The O2.