Two years ago, I published a work for hire with a leading legal publisher. Today, I received a letter from the publisher I wrote for, informing me that any content prepared for and owned by them could not be uploaded to Large Language Model (LMM) like ChatGPT, or any other form of generative AI. Using this content in an LLM, they stated, would violate their copyright.

Yesterday, I wrote about how the rise of AI will change the lawyer’s job, shifting emphasis from information processing to quintessentially human attributes like emotional intelligence and predictive strategy.

These are skills that require strength in functions performed by the DMN, like being creative, predicting the future, and understanding what others are thinking.

I’m only going to hire a lawyer to provide the things I can’t get from a machine - the human aspects. And when I need that kind of service, I’ll want a lawyer who has thought consciously about how to incorporate humanity into law practice, and who is skilled at doing so.

To develop this narrative requires the lawyer to use elements of the entrepreneurship method, whether consciously or unconsciously.

For my first ever experience creating with AI, I prompted the AI tool on Shutterstock to create an image of “West Virginia and the scales of justice.”

We don’t know what the future will look like, but we know for sure is that AI will radically change information processing, and therefore lawyering. What will the role of the lawyer be when my students are my age? There’s no way to know - but there is a way to prepare.