{"id":163995,"date":"2026-09-30T08:10:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/30\/this-legal-writing-expert-wants-lawyers-to-embrace-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T08:10:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:10:05","slug":"this-legal-writing-expert-wants-lawyers-to-embrace-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/30\/this-legal-writing-expert-wants-lawyers-to-embrace-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"This Legal Writing Expert Wants Lawyers To Embrace AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The closest analogy [for AI] is a U.S. Supreme Court clerk at your elbow: astonishingly well-read, relentlessly available and capable of an extraordinary turnaround. \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s why the clerk analogy is so apt. A clerk doesn\u2019t relieve a judge of judgment. A clerk makes more judgment possible.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i><\/span> American legal scholar and lexicographer<\/em> <\/b>Bryan Garner<\/a>, writing for the ABA Journal<\/a>, explaining why lawyers should view artificial intelligence as an exceptionally capable law clerk rather than a substitute for their own judgment. AI may research, analyze, and produce work at remarkable speed, but the lawyer must still decide what\u2019s accurate, relevant, and persuasive. As Garner puts it, when \u201cused properly,\u201d AI \u201ckeeps the lawyer in command while making the work quicker, tougher and better.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is 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 email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The post This Legal Writing Expert Wants Lawyers To Embrace AI<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

The closest analogy [for AI] is a U.S. Supreme Court clerk at your elbow: astonishingly well-read, relentlessly available and capable of an extraordinary turnaround. \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s why the clerk analogy is so apt. A clerk doesn\u2019t relieve a judge of judgment. A clerk makes more judgment possible.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i> American legal scholar and lexicographer<\/em> <\/b>Bryan Garner<\/a>, writing for the ABA Journal<\/a>, explaining why lawyers should view artificial intelligence as an exceptionally capable law clerk rather than a substitute for their own judgment. AI may research, analyze, and produce work at remarkable speed, but the lawyer must still decide what\u2019s accurate, relevant, and persuasive. As Garner puts it, when \u201cused properly,\u201d AI \u201ckeeps the lawyer in command while making the work quicker, tougher and better.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is 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 email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. The closest analogy [for AI] is a U.S. Supreme Court clerk at your elbow: astonishingly well-read, relentlessly available and capable of an extraordinary turnaround. \u2026 That\u2019s why the clerk analogy is so apt. A clerk doesn\u2019t relieve a judge of judgment. A clerk makes more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":163945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163995","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=163995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}