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I'm a litigator, and Westlaw's built-in AI has essentially replaced interns and is in serious danger of replacing 1st year attorneys for me. I find the AI requires roughly the same amount of prompting to produce roughly the same quality of work, only instead of getting a memo of middling usefulness in 5 days, I get it in 45 seconds. And I'm not expected to provide edits or mentorship to an AI. The AI is generally pretty good at getting me in the general ballpark of what I'm looking for, before doing the rest of my research manually. I have not been willing to try using AI in the drafting process yet, as that seems like a bridge too far in having something else doing my thinking for me.
It's tough, because we still need to make the long term investment in keeping the pipeline full of young attorneys who will eventually be able to provide value that can't be replicated by an AI, but it's at the point where I give the interns assignments for the job training, without actually using any of their work. They'd be crushed if they knew.
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