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.

The power of this new technology brought about a shared moment of reflection for the legal sector, hastening a collective realization that change is not only necessary but long overdue. Industry standard—but archaic—processes, stoic operating frameworks, and punishingly long hours have kept our industry stuck in the past. Yet, with every turn of technology introduced into the legal industry—take, for example, legal research—lawyers have had more business, not less.