Will AI make lawyers richer or put them out of work?

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Sun, 07 Sep 2025

By Justin FoxThe potential for generative artificial intelligence to transform the legal profession was obvious even before OpenAI’s ChatGPT appeared on the scene in 2022. What large-language models do – plough through huge quantities of text and data and come up with convincing-sounding things to say about them – is similar to what many lawyers do. But numerous attorneys and judges have learned to their great embarrassment that ChatGPT and other LLMs do not confine themselves to existing case law when making legal argume...

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