Why your firm's AI strategy starts with data governance

Every firm wants the AI advantage. Fewer want to do the work that makes AI actually useful. The firms getting real results aren't the ones with the fanciest model. They're the ones that structured their data first: what you have, who can see it, and what the bar expects. The foundation comes before the tool. This is the lesson enterprise learned the hard way over the last decade, and it applies directly to legal. Your matters, documents, and contacts are raw materials. Without structure, AI just makes stuff up on top of them. With structure, your firm's knowledge gets better with every case you close.