AI And The Future Of Legal Work: Augmentation, Not Automation

AI And The Future Of Legal Work: Augmentation, Not Automation

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Is AI Erasing Legal Careers? Here’s The Short Answer Is AI Erasing Legal Careers? Here’s The Short Answer

AI is reshaping, not erasing, legal careers. Recent reports from MIT, Deloitte, Thomson Reuters and others show generative tools can automate up to a quarter of legal tasks and expose about 11.7% of jobs economy‑wide, especially routine research and drafting. Yet firms are using AI primarily to boost productivity, redesign junior roles and create new AI is reshaping, not erasing, legal careers. Recent reports from MIT, Deloitte, Thomson Reuters …