Most lawyers cringe at the thought of artificial intelligence or chatbots doing the work that lawyers in the form of actual people are best suited to do. A great lawyer adapts to a set of circumstances that no artificial intelligence can keep up with. After all, every single case has its unique traits. But what if we embraced artificial intelligence to bring in a new era of trial lawyers — a new era of practicing law?

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that the legal profession will grow 10% from 2021 to 2031, which would be faster than the average for all other occupations. At the same time, other reports predict a lawyer shortage, due to perceived unrealistic demands of the job, work/life balance or lack of opportunity for growth. Most recent law graduates and junior lawyers who want to have a career in litigation want to be trained in real life scenarios and not just become the worker bee for a more senior lawyer. But the ability to access courts or hold a multi-day trial is becoming more and more unavailable.

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