{"id":141998,"date":"2026-01-16T15:47:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/16\/supreme-court-advocate-compares-using-ai-in-legal-practice-to-working-with-a-brilliant-associate-whos-also-schizophrenic\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T15:47:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:47:47","slug":"supreme-court-advocate-compares-using-ai-in-legal-practice-to-working-with-a-brilliant-associate-whos-also-schizophrenic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/16\/supreme-court-advocate-compares-using-ai-in-legal-practice-to-working-with-a-brilliant-associate-whos-also-schizophrenic\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Advocate Compares Using AI In Legal Practice To Working With A \u2018Brilliant Associate Who\u2019s Also Schizophrenic\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The technology is there. It\u2019s usable now. You have to guard against hallucinations, but it has made any one lawyer immensely more powerful and productive. You can generate drafts of stuff that would have taken hours, in minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0A Supreme Court practitioner, in anonymous comments given to the National Law Journal<\/a>, concerning the use of generative artificial intelligence tools in their legal practice. The SCOTUS advocate went on to note that AI can now perform most tasks that are typically assigned to associates, but cautioned, \u201cIt\u2019s like having a brilliant associate who\u2019s also a schizophrenic. It\u2019s bad for the associates because we will need fewer of them<\/strong>.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Supreme Court Advocate Compares Using AI In Legal Practice To Working With A \u2018Brilliant Associate Who\u2019s Also Schizophrenic\u2019<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The technology is there. It\u2019s usable now. You have to guard against hallucinations, but it has made any one lawyer immensely more powerful and productive. You can generate drafts of stuff that would have taken hours, in minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0A Supreme Court practitioner, in anonymous comments given to the National Law Journal<\/a>, concerning the use of generative artificial intelligence tools in their legal practice. The SCOTUS advocate went on to note that AI can now perform most tasks that are typically assigned to associates, but cautioned, \u201cIt\u2019s like having a brilliant associate who\u2019s also a schizophrenic. It\u2019s bad for the associates because we will need fewer of them<\/strong>.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. The technology is there. It\u2019s usable now. You have to guard against hallucinations, but it has made any one lawyer immensely more powerful and productive. You can generate drafts of stuff that would have taken hours, in minutes. \u2014\u00a0A Supreme Court practitioner, in anonymous comments […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":141978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Staci-Zaretsky-GHH1Qa.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}