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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Legal document review and direct redlining that is on par with junior lawyers. We haven’t had to hire because AI gets us most of the way there. Also built an AI agent to do routine legal tasks so our team stays small and focuses on more senior level judgment calls and litigation strategy[/quote]

So without junior lawyers how do we get senior lawyers who can make judgment calls?[/quote]
If I'm a client, I don't care about the skills development of junior lawyers--I care about getting the best value for the money, which will probably mean working with a practice that is using AI instead of helping train up future legal minds.

(Is this a good thing?  Probably not!  But I don't think that folks paying for legal services have any interest in paying more than they need to for the sake of the profession's future.) [/quote]

I work in client services in corporate law and this is not actually how clients think, at least not institutional clients who hire firms for ongoing representation. The clients I work with care a lot about lawyer development because it directly impacts every aspect of their representation, from how much it costs today to how efficient it will be next year to what happens if the relationship partner has a heart attack or retires.

If you are hiring a lawyer for a relatively short term and discrete legal problem, you probably don't care about how your work provides training opportunities for younger lawyers. But if you are a company keeping a firm on retainer or who has legal issues that take years to resolve or are simply ongoing (major litigation, regulatory matters, executing a 10 year growth plan, tax consultation, etc.) developing younger lawyers who understand your business and your legal situation, and with whom you have a relationship and established trust, is essential to ensuring continuity of service. Training younger lawyers can also help clients save money -- if you can train up a smart, reliable junior partner or a senior associate on the nuances of a matter, you can shift more of your billables onto cheaper lawyers and just pull in the big (expensive) gun when necessary.

Clients *do* want firms utilizing AI to help make legal services cheaper and more efficient. But it's not about eliminating younger attorneys. It's usually about cutting down on the time it takes to draft documents by using AI overseen by attorneys, or utilizing the planning and predictive nature of AI to help lawyers anticipate problems or provide more comprehensive and better advice without having to spend more money.

In litigation, AI will probably replace doc review. But doc review is not generally how young lawyers are trained -- it is mostly conducted by low level contract attorneys who will aren't even eligible for partnership. It's often overseen by associates on partnership track, but the AI doc review will have to overseen by a human attorney too, so that won't really change. [/quote]

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