AozorAg said:
I've tried using the most expensive AI tools available in my law practice, and I would still be committing malpractice if I didn't redo most of it myself. Whatever everybody is seeing in the hard sciences, it's not showing up in the legal world. Also I expect we're going to get some state legislation prohibiting AI practice of law in various forms in the near future. I think my job is safe for another decade or so at least.
I do not think that AI is going to replace lawyers in the near term, but if you aren't using it in your practice you are really missing out and behind the times.
For filing legal briefs, we have all seen the stories of hallucinated case law. That's not what I am referring to.
Document review, propounding discovery, drafting demands, oral argument prep, creating demonstrative exhibits, drafting contract provisions, drafting deposition questions, etc. AI has changed the game on all of these things.
I was at a seminar recently where the speaker asked the room of about 200 lawyers how many used AI in some capacity in their practice. All but maybe 10 raised their hands! I was floored by that.
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