United Kingdom: Finance/Accounting

In-house legal departments are being asked to fund AI initiatives by reallocating existing budgets, but new survey data reveals a critical constraint: 86% of legal leaders cannot shift money between budget categories without approval from managers or CFOs. This creates a fundamental tension between the expectation that legal will self-fund AI transformation and the reality that most teams lack the authority to restructure their budgets independently.

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