Ross Barnes

What did you just show me?

Because you're either in or you're out, right?

And that you've got two employees in the same team at the same level.

And one is probably compounding and increasing their productivity at such an astonishing rate.

And one is probably terrified.

So look, I think the reason we use lawyers is because we understand the challenges.

Lawyers are the knowledge workers of knowledge workers.

They are also at the frontier of the most regulation, the most risk and the most danger if something were to go wrong.

So that paralysis or tension is completely understandable.

However,

Being a knowledge worker is going to become harder and harder as knowledge becomes a commodity.

What lawyers have to be good at is, again, the four H's, is about seeing through the knowledge, the insight.

And in truth, that is what they are good at.

So the reticence of saying they're going to be automated isn't true because they will just have better ways of getting to the answers or the strategies that they need to.

And then needing to talk to them about none of this needs to be client facing.

None of this needs to be completely automated.

Let's identify where the risks are and let's put humans who understand output or understand systems in the loop so that nothing can go wrong.

And if it does go wrong and an AI gets something wrong, we can roll it back because we've caught it before it's caused any damage.

It is not about replacing them.

It is about giving them comfort and it is about giving them the ability to be the things that they should be, which are strategic thinkers who just have a better way to access the information rather than going through just the legal files to find precedent in 1852.