Lately, it seems there are a lot of reasons to fear AI. But this blog post by Sam Bock at Relativity shows 3 reasons lawyers shouldn’t fear AI.

The post, titled 3 Reasons Lawyers Shouldn’t Fear AI According to 2025 AI Visionaries (available here), discusses that despite common misconceptions, AI isn’t here to replace lawyers and legal teams; it’s here to help them. Rest assured that humans retain all the power when it comes to legal applications of AI—as they should.

Relativity’s 2025 AI Visionaries are here to show us three key reasons each of us should start to feel a sense of growing confidence in an AI-powered legal career. Here’s one of them:

#1: AI won’t just help legal teams work faster or cheaper; it’ll help them work better.

Yes, it’s great that AI can help you accelerate timelines and deliver results using a smaller chunk of change.

But more important than that is AI’s ability to improve the quality and accuracy of your work, especially on traditionally exhausting, human-error-prone projects like document review.

“For me, as a busy mother of two, AI helps get the job done right the first time, aligning with my focus on effective and clear communication. It’s not just about speed; it’s about achieving better results, and defensibly,” says Fiona Campbell, head of electronic disclosure at Fieldfisher LLP.

“Lawyers, bound by practicing certificates and their duties as officers of the court, must stand over their work, using AI as a supportive tool rather than a replacement,” she continues. “By streamlining labor-intensive tasks and providing robust audit trails, AI enables better, faster outcomes for both teams and clients.”

Legal practitioners should feel eager to adopt AI, therefore, knowing that they won’t just be chewing through projects faster—they’ll be providing their clients with better service, too.

“The prize we have been chasing in e-discovery for the last two decades is how to do review cheaper and faster, but also with better quality results. Generative AI is a tool that potentially can move us closer to that previously unachievable goal,” says Matt Jackson, counsel of data analytics and e-discovery at Sidley Austin LLP.

So, what are the other 2 of 3 reasons lawyers shouldn’t fear AI? Find out here, it’s only one click! You can click before you count to…three! 😉

So, what do you think? What are your fears of AI? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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