TechLaw10: AI & its impact on law firms

In this episode of TechLaw10, Punter Southall Law’s Jonathan Armstrong and Eric Sinrod, a professor and attorney at Duane Morris LLP, chat with returning special guest Jill Kawakami.

Jill, Jonathan & Eric discuss a number of issues including:

• how AI has changed law firms
• what are the concerns of junior lawyers and what do they want from a post-AI world?
• the economics of use of AI in the law
• what seems to be the world’s first ban for a lawyer for hallucination
• some of the positive uses for AI in the law
• the issues with access to justice
• the impact on privilege
• how law firms can grade AI use
• how law firms can deal with the scrutiny gap
• what some law firms are doing to train their lawyers
• the issues with token wastage
• the latest figures on AI reducing headcount
• the issues with AI anxiety
• AI displacement
• the impact on diversity & social advancement

This is episode 302 in the popular TechLaw10 series.