So True re what BlackBoiler’s Dan Broderick states: It’s no secret that 2020 moved the legal industry forward, some say by decades, as far as embracing and adopting technology, but there are still many fears that automation equals replacement. That couldn’t be further from the truth. AI won’t replace lawyers, but lawyers who use AI will replace lawyers who don’t. That’s because AI, or any well-developed legal technology, allows knowledge workers to become more efficient. Mundane, repetitious tasks can be automated, allowing lawyers to spend their time providing more meaningful counsel to their clients.
Additionally – Tess Blair, the founder and leader of Morgan Lewis’ eData practice – basically states in her interview with Legal Speak – AI facilitates the practice of law in smaller but important ways. AI today essentially automates small repetitive low risk tasks in a way and machines do it better – frees attorneys to spend more time on what is really important – developing the strategy, understanding the client’s exposure and the facts and so forth about the Case. It is not going to replace the lawyer but make better use of their time that leads to better engagement and more satisfaction on both the lawyer’s part and the client’s part. The lawyer brings AI to life – putting the process around it and leveraging AI. AI is to a lawyer what a calculator is to an Accountant.