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Law firms, Chambers and Courts in India cannot align on Legal Tech Adoption & Use Priorities: ISAIL.IN x Rhett Dialogue on Tech for Legal in India 2026


Rhett. and the Indian Society of Artificial Intelligence and Law held a joint dialogue on Tech for Legal in India 2026.


It featured some important interventions.


ISAIL President Abhivardhan explained how the legal tech landscape of India has truly changed in 2026 and why legal tech adoption and infra priorities for law firms, lower courts, higher judiciary and chambers would never align in the same way, and why techbros and startups should study their different priorities.


Shirsha Ray Chaudhuri, Distinguished Expert, ISAIL Advisory Council and Head of ML Engineering team in Bangalore for Thomson Reuters Labs presented some hard and real facts about building tech for legal in India, and with a deeper and frank contemplation on elements of trust, competence and the deeper connect with human-AI consonance in asking whether a legal tech solution is plausible or not.


Nikhil Mehra, Advocate in Delhi High Court made his simple practitioner-centric interventions.


Swastik Grover and Ritik Mathur from Rhett team well-handled this dialogue.


We thank all including the participants for being so active with so many questions to us. The spirit of questions and answers matters to us.

The Indian Society of Artificial Intelligence and Law is an artificial intelligence industry forum, founded by Abhivardhan in 2018. Our mission as a not-for-profit industry forum for the analytics & AI industry in India is to promote responsible development of artificial intelligence and its standardisation in India.

Since 2022, the research operations of the Society have been subsumed under VLiGTA® by Indic Pacific Legal Research.

ISAIL has supported two independent journals, namely - the Indic Journal of International Law and the Indian Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Law. It also supports an independent media and community initiative - The Bharat Pacific.

ISAIL’s India-centric AI policy documentations, community-centric initiatives, and contributions to AI standardisation in India have been acknowledged by the Council of Europe, quite recently.

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