In 2025, clients draft contracts with Grok Deep Research and law firms deploy Harvey Workflows, while courts scrutinize AI-generated citations after incidents of fabricated references. Users report 15-minute drafting that would have cost ~$2,000; firms explore workflow builders and new pricing; controlled studies using o1-preview report effects but remain scarce. The near-term pattern is AI-drafted documents reviewed by counsel and increased in-house use, with risk concentrated in citation verification.
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Tbh it’s now irresponsible to NOT use AI for this kind of thing https://t.co/6I1fAQwbfb
Are we going to pretend $750/hour law firms are going to be business as usual in the AI age? I just used Grok Deep Research to draft a simple contract. Took 15 minutes. Would have cost $2,000 with a lawyer. When I sent it to my attorney to review, his response was "looks good" 2 days later. I had already sent the contract lol. It was signed by the client. Thanks Mr. Attorney. Lawyers and accountants keep insisting that AI is just a toy and real work requires human judgment. Meanwhile, their billable hours model is silently imploding. I've watched this pattern play out before. First comes denial. Then "it only works for simple stuff." Then "it can't handle nuance." Finally, massive restructuring. Law firms won't disappear, but the pyramid of junior associates doing document review and contract drafting is evaporating overnight. What nobody's talking about is how the next generation will learn when the entry-level jobs that have always been the training ground are precisely what AI does best. I wouldn't be surprised if the biggest shock to law firms comes when their own clients start bringing AI-drafted documents to meetings and just asking for quick reviews. The real change won't be dramatic - it'll be the slow realization that clients are paying for 1 hour of work instead of 10, while still getting the same outcome. It'll be death by a thousand cuts as more routine legal work gets handled by in-house teams with AI assistance. We're watching the complete reinvention of professional services happen in real-time, and pretending nothing will change.
I’m a lawyer. I use ChatGPT daily. I feel like causing some chaos in my profession. The following is PART ONE of a series I’m calling: “Things ChatGPT can do right now that (maybe) you no longer need to pay lawyers for!” [*Please see the disclaimers at the end] https://t.co/3a6CPs7GxT