"This notion masquerading as a truism sounds good. We like it. We want it to be true. It alleviates the need to worry about what AI is doing to our profession. It assures we will all have jobs in the future gazing out the window and thinking all day. And getting paid vast sums of money to do so. It's in every press release and white paper from vendors."
"More importantly, like me, Innanen actually practiced law for several years. He (and I) knows what it means to be a lawyer. We know what lawyers actually do day in and day out. And like me, he thinks the idea that AI and automation will free us all up to do the high-end work is, to be blunt, mostly bullshit."
Most legal work consists of regular tasks rather than high-end strategic work. Automation and AI will replace those regular tasks, creating time for many lawyers who previously performed them. High-end strategic work requires deep focus and sustained attention and cannot be performed continuously for eight hours a day. The limited supply of high-level strategic assignments will primarily go to specialists and senior partners rather than associates or midlevel lawyers. Separating strategic from routine work does not guarantee new careers in strategy for displaced lawyers, and the promise that AI will universally elevate legal roles is misleading.
Read at Above the Law
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