From automation to agentic AI: Uncovering the biggest AI developments for legal professionals in 2025


Machine learning, Gen-AI, Agentic AI, LLMs, hyper-automation and even… vibe coding. These are just a few of the terms that cascaded into the common vernacular across the business landscape in 2025. While AI has long been the domain of developers, 2025 marked a pivotal turning point where the business world rapidly caught up. Driven by exorbitant capital investment and the widespread adoption of AI, this boom created an opportunity for businesses to re-evaluate their plans for growth. Now, in the legal industry, the conversation isn’t just about faster document drafting; it’s about fundamentally reshaping how legal value is delivered.


In the last year, we’ve seen a rapid evolution of digital AI tools for hyper-automation. For legal professionals this has been concentrated into high-volume, legal-adjacent tasks such as document summarising, initial contract review, and research collation. These digital enhancements are already deeply integrated into InfoTrack’s Simplified Interface. A fantastic example is the NSW Contract Review tool, which uses AI-assisted technology to empower lawyers to recoup up to 200 hours per year. Features like providing instantaneous risk assessments and smart recommendations have moved from being futuristic novelties to common practice, allowing professionals to dedicate more attention to the strategic elements of a client’s case.


The next critical wave of AI development began focusing intensely on collaboration and orchestrated workflows. This is the defining characteristic of Agentic AI. Agentic models aren’t just being engineered to execute single tasks (like summarising a document); they are built to reason, create complex plans, and string together multiple steps to complete sophisticated projects, essentially driving themselves towards a goal. This report powerfully highlights the creation of a modern partnership where human expertise is amplified by intelligent systems. InfoTrack CEO, John Ahern, also shares this sentiment and recently explained, “It’s about creating partnerships between professionals and intelligent systems, so we can all work faster, smarter, and with greater confidence.” In this digital age, human judgement is amplified, allowing lawyers to move into a higher-value, consultative position.


However, as the technological capability accelerates, so too does scrutiny around compliance and accountability. For legal professionals, the intersection of technology must be designed to strengthen this obligation, never to compromise it. The ethical use of AI, data privacy, and model reliability to underpin all development has been rigorously discussed in 2025. The common theme to emerge has been that acting with integrity and completing due diligence will remain the responsibility of the lawyer in practice. Technology will continue to be a tool that’s used to embed security in your workflows and provide ethical guardrails.  


At InfoTrack, the importance of this global phenomenon and the transitional period our clients are navigating has never been clearer than the past year. We have dedicated hours to researching, learning and planning for this next wave. Our focus through all this discovery is providing technology that supports legal professionals while upholding the highest compliance and security standards in the industry. The future of legal work is collaborative, efficient, and intelligent, and InfoTrack provides the platform that allows you to confidently lead the way.