I am concerned with a trend in the legal community: the notion that it suffices to merely verify the output of agentic systems, ensuring no hallucinations, errors, or material omissions. Is a brief that is technically correct necessarily rendered with requisite diligence? I argue no.

A growing number of lawyers and firms now publicly advertise the tools they use, even sharing details of their AI-assisted workflows. Most are making the same mistake.

For all the talk of “integrating transformational technology,” law firms have shown little meaningful improvement in the cost of generating work product in complex litigation. Why?