{"id":96775,"date":"2025-09-19T09:41:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=96775"},"modified":"2025-09-19T09:42:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:42:26","slug":"ai-could-rehumanize-the-legal-profession-other-items-involving-legaltech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/09\/19\/ai-could-rehumanize-the-legal-profession-other-items-involving-legaltech\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;AI could rehumanize the legal profession&#8221; + other items involving legaltech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/law.stanford.edu\/press\/stanford-law-unveils-liftlab-a-groundbreaking-ai-initiative-focused-on-the-legal-professions-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Stanford Law Unveils liftlab, a Groundbreaking AI Initiative Focused on the Legal Profession\u2019s Future<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from law.stanford.edu<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">September\u00a015, 2025 \u2014 Stanford, CA \u2014 Stanford Law School today announced the launch of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/law.stanford.edu\/liftlab\/\">Legal Innovation through Frontier Technology Lab<\/a>, or liftlab, to explore how artificial intelligence can reshape legal services\u2014<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>not just to make them faster and cheaper, but better and more widely accessible.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Led by Professor\u00a0Julian Nyarko\u00a0and Executive Director\u00a0Megan Ma, liftlab is among the first academic efforts in legal AI to unite research, prototyping, and real-time collaboration with industry. While much of AI innovation in law has so far focused on streamlining routine tasks, liftlab is taking a broader and more ambitious approach. The goal is to tap AI\u2019s potential to fundamentally change the way legal work serves society.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jordanfurlong.substack.com\/p\/the-divergence-of-law-firms-from\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The divergence of law firms from lawyers<\/a> <\/strong>&#8212; from jordanfurlong.substack.com by Jordan Furlong<br \/>\n<em>LLMs&#8217; absorption of legal task performance will drive law firms towards commoditized service hubs while raising lawyers to unique callings as trustworthy legal guides \u2014 so long as we do this right.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Generative AI is going to weaken and potentially dissolve that relationship. Law firms will become capable of generating output that can be sold to clients with no lawyer involvement at all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Right now, it\u2019s possible for an ordinary person to obtain from an LLM like ChatGPT-5 the performance of a legal task \u2014 the provision of legal analysis, the production of a legal instrument, the delivery of legal advice \u2014 that previously could only be acquired from a human lawyer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I\u2019m not saying a person\u00a0<em>should<\/em>\u00a0do that. The LLM\u2019s output might be effective and reliable, or it might prove disastrously off-base. But many people are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lexisnexis.com\/community\/insights\/legal\/b\/thought-leadership\/posts\/new-survey-identifies-how-consumers-would-be-willing-to-use-generative-ai-to-address-legal-needs\" rel=\"\">already using LLMs in this way<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jordanfurlong.substack.com\/p\/level-the-playing-field-give-consumers\" rel=\"\">in the absence of other accessible options<\/a>\u00a0for legal assistance, they will continue to do so.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/legal.thomsonreuters.com\/blog\/why-legal-professionals-need-purpose-built-agentic-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Why legal professionals need purpose-built agentic AI<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from legal.thomsonreuters.com by Frank Schilder with Thomson Reuters Labs<\/p>\n<p><strong>Highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Professional-grade agentic AI systems are architecturally distinct from consumer chatbots, utilizing domain-specific data and robust verification mechanisms to deliver the high accuracy and reliability essential for legal work, whereas consumer tools prioritize conversational flow using unvetted web data.<\/li>\n<li>True agentic AI for legal professionals offers transparent, multi-agent workflows, integrates with authoritative legal databases for verification, and applies domain-specific reasoning to understand legal nuances, unlike traditional chatbots that lack this complexity and autonomy.<\/li>\n<li>When evaluating legal AI, professionals should avoid solutions that lack workflow transparency, offer no human checkpoints for oversight, and cannot integrate with professional databases, ensuring the chosen tool enhances, rather than replaces, expert judgment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/legal-exchange-insights-and-commentary\/how-i-left-corporate-law-to-become-a-legal-tech-entrepreneur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>How I Left Corporate Law to Become a Legal Tech Entrepreneur<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from news.bloomberglaw.com by Adam Nguyen; <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>behind a paywall<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">If you\u2019re a lawyer wondering whether to take the leap into entrepreneurship, I understand the apprehension that comes with leaving a predictable path. Embracing the fear, uncertainty, challenges, and constant evolution integral to an entrepreneur\u2019s journey has been worth it for me.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/09\/lawyering-in-the-age-of-ai-why-artificial-intelligence-might-make-lawyers-more-human\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Lawyering In The Age Of AI: Why Artificial Intelligence Might Make Lawyers More Human<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from abovethelaw.com by Lisa Lang and Joshua Horenstein<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>AI could rehumanize the legal profession.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">AI is already adept at doing what law school trained us to do \u2014 identifying risks, spotting issues, and referencing precedent. What it\u2019s not good at is nuance, trust, or judgment \u2014 skills that define great lawyering.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">When AI handles some of the drudgery \u2014 like contract clause spotting and formatting \u2014 it gives us something precious back: time. That time forces lawyers to stop hiding behind legalese and impractical analysis. It allows \u2014 and even demands \u2014 that we communicate like leaders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Imagine walking into a business meeting and, instead of delivering a 20-page memo, offering a single slide with a recommendation tied directly to company goals. That\u2019s not just good lawyering; that\u2019s leadership. And AI may be the catalyst that gets us there.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>AI changes the game. When generative tools can translate clauses into plain English, the old value proposition of complexity begins to crumble. The playing field shifts \u2014 from who can analyze the most thoroughly to who can communicate the most clearly.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>That\u2019s not a threat. It\u2019s an opportunity \u2014 one for lawyers to become better partners to the business by focusing on what matters most: sound judgment delivered in plain language.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanford Law Unveils liftlab, a Groundbreaking AI Initiative Focused on the Legal Profession\u2019s Future\u00a0&#8212; from law.stanford.edu September\u00a015, 2025 \u2014 Stanford, CA \u2014 Stanford Law School today announced the launch of the\u00a0Legal Innovation through Frontier Technology Lab, or liftlab, to explore how artificial intelligence can reshape legal services\u2014not just to make them faster and cheaper, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,832,356,817,473,86,209,433,237,419,180,825,837,833,830,285,321,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-access-to-justice","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-bots","category-canada","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-communications","category-entrepreneurship","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-law-schools","category-legal-operations","category-legal-reform","category-legal-technologies","category-legislation-legislatures","category-united-states","category-englishwriting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96775"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96795,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96775\/revisions\/96795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}