Artificial Intelligence and the Legal Profession: A Paradigm Shift
I’ve always been deeply intrigued by the legal industry - first, because of its complexity, and second, because of its elusive nature. A close friend of mine, now a highly respected physician in England, once said, “Any field that doesn’t deal with numbers is just a place where students learn to push the clouds.” He was referring to disciplines like law - where success is not always quantifiable, and outcomes can be more philosophical than scientific. The irony? The law firm of the future is quite literally moving to the cloud. My first encounter with the law came not from textbooks, but from movies and literature. Fiction painted a world where good triumphs over evil, and justice prevails. That idealism...