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I am wary of it as well but have started to experiment with it. It still needs a lot of human support in my experience but does make some things easier.
What things does it help the most with in your experience?
I get the ethical hesitation, but honestly? We’re hitting the point where not using AI creates its own ethical wrinkle. It’s not just *“should lawyers use new tech,”* it’s *“should clients have to pay triple because we refused to?”* If I can have AI generate a first-pass structure, issue map, and case-law vector in 30 seconds, and then I spend my actual time doing the judgment work, that’s a net win for everyone. Imagine telling a client, “Yes, we spent four hours drafting this memo because I didn’t want to let a machine outline it in 10 seconds.” The tech isn’t replacing legal reasoning — it’s just eliminating the parts of the workflow that used to be a time sink. So the question isn’t just whether AI is ethically acceptable; it’s whether refusing it is.
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I used AI to summarize a report back from counsel after a hearing. It could not distinguish what was important and had to completely rewrite it after not being able to make its summary useful.
I hear a lot of this. It takes a lot of prompting that by the time you get a version close to what you want you might as well have done it yourself
I am required to use it. If billed 30 pages an hour to summarize depos or create a page line for topics instead like the 2 mins. AI takes I would be fired. Attys can't bill hours for creating a motion or a discovery response outline nor wait for a LPA to create one. AI does it in seconds and then the atty can spend time writing the meat.
It's of great advantage to paralegals and staff to get a handle on AI quickly; the senior partners aren't going to be the ones interfacing with AI on the day-to-day, it's still the team in the trenches.
I've been a panelist and CLE presenter on AI in Law Firms for going on 3 years. The tide changed significantly in June/July 2025 to an acceptance of its inevitability, although most firms still do not have a use policy (other than banning it, which is unrealistic). Happy to talk more, share slides, etc.
I was a non lawyer in the legal realm for 16 years up until last year when I was laid off and realized how toxic of an environment litigation in general is. We were not permitted to use AI for anything. I am now in a tech real estate world and I use it for non factual tasks like creating job descriptions or templates or even designs for things I don’t have the tools for. All these tasks I have to go back and edit but it’s a great tool to help complete tasks. I think the frame of mind needs to shift from this is taking my job to how does this transition my job? The person whoever it be is still responsible for checking the substantive items as well as the specific angle and actual specific facts of the case. I know we had clients who said we COULD NOT use anything on their cases/files that even remotely used AI. I had to clarify because when you OCR you I are using a form of AI. I think once it is fine tuned AI is going to make the legal world less chaotic and demanding which is a good thing!