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AI-powered automation will augment, not replace.

A palpable wave of fear and uncertainty swept through the legal profession in the months after ChatGPT was released. Let's be honest—like professionals in many industries at the time, we attorneys, paralegals, and legal professionals worried about becoming irrelevant. We wondered if meticulously honed expertise, built over years of practice, could suddenly be replaced by lines of code. For a brief moment, members of one of the most notoriously pragmatic professions had to collectively consider whether the cryptid "robot lawyers" were coming for our jobs.