Lynda ArtesaniLegal Accountant and Data Migration Specialist at The Proper Trust

AI Brings Joy Back to Legal Work

17 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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In this segment of the YouTube video "AI Brings Joy Back to Legal Work," the speaker explains that AI can handle the repetitive, time‑consuming aspects of legal work—such as reading contracts, identifying missing clauses, and assessing the aggressiveness of contract language. By automating these routine tasks, attorneys no longer have to spend hours on rote intake and can instead focus on higher‑value activities like strategic analysis and client advocacy. The speaker emphasizes that this shift not only improves efficiency but also restores enjoyment to lawyers' daily work, as they spend more time on the aspects of the job they find intellectually rewarding.

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They're actually enjoying their jobs because let's face it, most of those tasks that are automatable right now with AI are the stuff that attorneys don't want to do anyway. They don't want to spend 3 hours analyzing a contract when they could use AI to query it and say, you know, what are the clauses that are missing in this contract? Or, you know, is this contract too, you know, overly aggressive, you know, towards my client or towards the counterparty, whatever it might be. The analysis and the strategy is what the lawyer wants to do. They don't want to do the rote, you know, reading and intake of information.