When legal AI systems fail, the blame is usually placed on the model. Hallucinations, inaccuracies, or lack of sophistication are cited as the root cause. In most cases, this diagnosis is wrong. The majority of legal AI failures occur before the model is ever used, at the workflow design stage. The system behaves exactly as the process allows it to behave. What fails is not intelligence. What fails is structure. The Wrong Failure Narrative Legal AI is often evaluated in isola