“Just to be a mediocre lawyer in general, you have to understand AI,” Glatstein told Berkeley Law’s Irene Liu during an online event Tuesday. For those with higher aspirations, he said, “there’s really no substitute for just digging in and doing the work.”
Generative AI is quickly changing the way lawyers work, and ignoring how the technology functions is no longer an option, according to Microsoft Assistant General Counsel Ben Glatstein.
“Just to be a mediocre lawyer in general, you have to understand AI,” he said. “If you want to be a great AI lawyer, I think you should be playing around with the technology, you should be curious and you should be experimenting.”
