Law firms and legal departments racing to understand, accommodate and even experiment with generative AI is a testament to just how technology-forward they've become over the past few years. But despite this change, technology adoption still faces considerable barriers in the legal market.

The Future Ready Lawyer 2023 survey conducted by Wolters Kluwer, which surveyed 700 lawyers in law firms, corporate legal departments, and business services firms across the U.S., the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Hungary, Italy, Poland, and Belgium, found burgeoning support among lawyers for tech adoption, including of generative AI. But in tandem with that trend, barriers and fears around the implementation of new tools are also considerable.