What Happens to Training of Junior Attorneys when AI Takes Over their Tasks?

Right now, AI is being trained to handle the grunt work that junior attorneys cut their teeth on. Redlines, contract reviews, research, basic analysis — AI will soon be able to do it faster, cheaper, and with fewer errors.

But these tasks were essential for us to develop our critical thinking, learning from mistakes and building the foundation of a legal career.

So if AI handles the basics, what happens to the critical training that junior lawyers once received?

Will they still get the opportunity to develop their lawyering skills that define the early years of our profession?

Or are we investing more in the next generation of AI than in the next generation of attorneys?

IMO - Different types of legal training will need to evolve as quickly as legal tech. Otherwise, we might find ourselves with a generation of lawyers who missed out on learning the ropes because the ropes were handed over to a machine.

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