We see high-powered legal teams now becoming business advisers too- with the aid of AI, scouring legal and commercial data, analysing market trends to anticipate changes. They are in best position to advise beyond legal to help identify opportunities and risks that tomorrow holds. They are the fence at the edge of the cliff rather than the ambulance at the bottom.
The legal profession has long been regarded as resistant to change and driven by tradition rather than innovation. However, COVID forcefully steered this field into adopting technology which showed some amazing results – and now there’s no going back! AI is disrupting the legal field with its pervasive presence – and it is for the better. As the science fiction writer William Gibson memorably said, ‘the future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed’.