OM DENNE EPISODE
AI can answer legal questions, draft contracts and even pass part of the bar exam. But as international legal advisor and tech founder Matti Neustadt explains, good legal counsel starts somewhere else: understanding a client’s business, goals and risks well enough to identify the questions they should be asking, not only answering the ones they bring to the table. In this episode, Matti explores how AI can strengthen that relationship, giving lawyers more time to apply the judgment and experience clients actually need.
We cover topics including:
- Why professional judgment matters more in an AI-enabled world, and how an experienced lawyer can uncover risks, priorities and questions a client may not know enough to identify on their own.
- How AI can become a relationship accelerator, helping lawyers learn their clients’ businesses faster, maintain that knowledge over time, and focus their attention where their expertise creates the greatest value.
- How greater efficiency could reshape the business of law, reducing time spent gathering information and producing routine work while putting greater value on strategy, judgment and trusted counsel.
AI may dramatically change how professional work gets done. But Matti makes the case that its greatest potential may be helping skilled professionals spend less time producing answers and more time understanding which questions really need to be asked.
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