Jared Coseglia, Founder & CEO of TruLegal, has launched his recurring column in Today’s General Counsel, “The AI-Enabled Lawyer with Jared Coseglia,” with a foundational piece on why AI-enabled legal professionals will define the next era of in-house law.
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For in-house legal teams, AI is moving from a technology conversation to a talent conversation. Corporate legal departments are no longer just asking which tools they should buy. They are asking who can use those tools, govern them, operationalize them, and turn them into measurable business value.
In this article, Jared explains why AI fluency is quickly becoming a core differentiator for legal professionals. The most competitive legal talent will not simply understand the law. They will understand how AI changes workflows, cost structures, outside counsel relationships, legal operations, and the way legal teams deliver value to the business.
This piece explores how AI is reshaping the expectations placed on corporate attorneys, legal operations professionals, and outside counsel. Jared outlines why corporate legal departments are beginning to reward professionals who can reduce costs, create efficiency, deliver actionable insights, and help legal teams move faster without sacrificing judgment or defensibility.
The article also discusses the rise of flexible and fractional AI-enabled legal talent. As corporate law departments evaluate whether to build, buy, or borrow AI expertise, contract and secondee resources are becoming an increasingly strategic way to access specialized skills without committing to permanent headcount too early.
AI adoption is changing what “high-performing legal professional” means. Legal teams need people who can work across technology, process, risk, governance, and business enablement.
The future of in-house law will be defined by professionals who can combine legal judgment with AI-enabled execution.
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TruLegal (formerly TRU Staffing Partners) is an award-winning global leader in delivering bespoke AI-enabled talent solutions for modern legal teams. With a network of relationships reaching over 100,000 legal professionals across 75+ countries, TruLegal has successfully placed thousands of attorneys, legal operations, litigation & eDiscovery, data privacy, cybersecurity and other legal professionals who focus on the intersection of technology and the law. For over fifteen years, TruLegal has provided flexible contract talent, direct hire contingency staffing, and executive level search services to the Fortune 1000, AmLaw 200, and the community of providers that support the legal industry.
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