AI Can’t Take a Lawyer’s Job. We’re Going to be Okay. ft. Christina Natale

Quotes:

• “If I'm gonna be back in the weeds and I really love and want to litigate at a high level and service my clients, how can I do that if we're not leveraging technology in a way that makes our lives easier and takes some of the tedious or repetitive tasks that are really important?”

• “There has to be a better way and understanding it from that level of depth of knowing what we mean when we say law firm operations are managing cases, what really goes into the day to day, what resources our teams need.”

• “I do think that innovation is critical to our profession. I think that it makes us better at serving our clients. I think that we're going to get to a really good place where we can hopefully find that and optimize that.”

• “I've mentored law students since I've graduated. And, you know, the questions are always like, I don't know what I want to do, like what type of law do I want to practice, et cetera. And like almost any lawyer you know, or anyone who's come from being a lawyer into some transition could tell you that they're not doing anything that they thought they'd be doing when they were in law school. I don't mean this in a negative way, they're probably not doing anything they learned in law school.”

• “I don't think we'll ever be in a place where AI is capable of practicing law in the way that we think of. I keep seeing stuff on Reddit every day. It's like, look at all these people who are using AI to fight traffic tickets and break their leases and they're winning. But as lawyers, I do think again, and especially in more complex matters and matters that require expertise and experience, there's no substitute for that. There really just isn't.”