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Broken Ladder: Are Lawyers Sleepwalking into a Competence Crisis?
By James Tuke, CEO, AI Futures Forum. It is late January 2026. For the past two years, the legal sector has been in a race …
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What Can Lawyers Learn from Accountants’ AI Experience?
The legal world tends to look inwards, which is understandable given its complexity. But, AI’s impact is unrestricted and is affecting all professions. What can …
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Are We Approaching Peak Big Law?
As AI tools and hybrid law firms promise to perform complex legal work at a fraction of the usual cost, one question resounds: are we …
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When AI Starts to Think Like a Lawyer
By Matthew Leopold, LexisNexis. Most legal AI today still behaves like a vending machine. Feed in a prompt, wait, and hope the output resembles something …
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The AI Infra Boom: Another Industrial Revolution?
By John Nay, CEO, Norm Ai. Over the past two years, much of the conversation around AI has shifted from algorithms to atoms. Tech giants are ploughing money …
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What Do We Want From Legal AI?
What do we want from legal AI? Is it primarily there to act as an assistant, operating at the edges of a lawyer’s work, or …
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Will AI ‘Dumb Down’ The Legal World?
By Richard Tromans, Artificial Lawyer. This site strongly supports the use of AI in the legal sector. But, we should not avoid the tough questions, …
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The Ferrari Fallacy: Legal Tech Races Ahead, Lawyers Are Stuck In Traffic
By Thomas Pfennig, Transforming.Legal. For the past 18 months, I’ve had the privilege of acting squarely within the global legal tech and AI transformation space …
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AI Should Absorb Legal Tasks, Not Replace Lawyers
If the ultimate goal of legal AI is simply to remain ‘in support’ and never really change the status quo, then this entire endeavour will …
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‘A Law Firm Is A Legal Wrapper With Human Agents’
If you were going to design a major law firm from scratch in 2024, taking into account the current wave of genAI technology, how would …