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'Hopeless' to potentially handy: law firm puts AI to the test

Despite 'incredible' progress AI tools still aren't up to the level of even a junior lawyer, research suggests.

The international law firm Hill Dickinson recently blocked general access to several AI tools after it found a "significant increase in usage" by its staff. It added that despite the "incredible" progress made in recent years there remained questions about whether that would be replicated in future, or if there were "inherent limitations" in what AI tools could do. In any case, it said, client relations would always be a key part of what lawyers did, so even future advances in AI tools would not necessarily bring to an end what it called the "fleshy bits in the delivery of legal services".

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