This is about using AI as a smart junior assistant for lawyers — helping read huge piles of documents, draft routine language, and surface relevant cases so the attorney can focus on judgment and strategy.
Lawyers spend massive amounts of time on repetitive, document-heavy work (review, drafting, research). The article describes how modern AI can automate and accelerate these tasks while keeping humans in control, changing cost structures and service models in law.
For law firms and legal departments, the moat will come from proprietary, curated legal work product (briefs, memos, email advice, playbooks) wired into AI workflows, plus client relationships and integration into daily matter workflows, rather than the underlying models themselves.
Hybrid
Vector Search
Medium (Integration logic)
Context window cost and strict data-privacy/compliance requirements for confidential client documents.
Early Majority
Positioned as a broad inflection point in how legal work is done with AI, emphasizing workflow-wide transformation (research, drafting, review) rather than a single-point tool; real differentiation for adopters will come from how deeply they embed AI into matter management and knowledge management rather than the base model choice.