Legal operations teams are increasingly limiting artificial intelligence tool contracts to about a year, betting that the ability to walk away from the wrong product is worth more than the discounts that once made three-to-five-year tech deals attractive.

The American Arbitration Association launched an open-source method on Wednesday for attaching legal terms to transactions brokered by artificial intelligence agents, saying most agent-to-agent transactions currently lack verifiable terms and are unclear about which jurisdiction's law governs.

Some legal operations professionals are using the term legal engineer to define a role designing legal workflows using artificial intelligence. The job title has been more common among technology vendors and in law firms, and not everyone agrees on what it means or whether using it in legal ops is a good idea.

In-house legal departments are struggling to review a deluge of social media and other marketing content created on behalf of their companies, corporate legal leaders said Tuesday during a panel discussion that included a Mastercard executive recounting the media frenzy around its partnership with Lady Gaga.

Meta's global head of legal operations predicts that the billable hour will be the exception, not the rule, in five years, telling a packed room of legal ops professionals at an annual conference this week that he is already asking law firms for fixed-fee agreements for their work.