One of the last places you would expect to hear the siren call of the Airbnb or WeChat consumer experience is in a corporate legal department. But as powerful experiences spread from consumer markets to companies’ internal work, a legal department’s internal customers now have similar expectations for convenience, simplicity, speed and low cost.

Digital technologies are essential ingredients for meeting those expectations. While legal departments often adopt digital technologies to lower costs, the most transformative effect will be on the experience that legal provides to internal business customers. Among the most promising technologies, artificial intelligence (AI) has been embraced by forward-thinking legal groups in a range of industries.