Six-month Recap: Legal links and Milestones

This is part of the full AI Virtual Inn of Court September 2025 Member Meeting presentation.

Jan 10, 2025
“Working paper argues AI creates an “inflection point” for each job type. Before that, AI boosts freelancer earnings (web devs saw a +65% increase). After, AI replaces freelancers (translators saw -30% drop). They suggest that once AI starts replacing a job, it doesn’t go back.
https://x.com/emollick/status/1875975178041389547

Jan 17, 2025
Wall Street Expected to Shed 200,000 Jobs as AI Erodes Roles – Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-09/wall-street-expected-to-shed-200-000-jobs-as-ai-erodes-roles  

“Harvey, the AI for law firms, is raising another round from Sequoia ($300M at $3B). Last round was Series C in July, $100M at $1.5B led by GV. They were estimated to have $30M of revenue then, wonder what revenue looks like now” / X
https://x.com/pitdesi/status/1879982274831347890?s=46

Jan 24, 2025
AI tool can give ministers ‘vibe check’ on whether MPs will like policies | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/20/ai-tool-can-give-ministers-vibe-check-on-whether-mps-will-like-policies

UK uses AI to tackle ‘bid-rigging’ collusion in public procurement contracts | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/06/uk-uses-ai-to-tackle-bid-rigging-collusion-in-public-procurement-contracts/

Jan 30, 2025
Law School (Case Western Reserve University School of Law) Now Requires Students To Get Artificial Intelligence Certification – Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/01/law-school-now-requires-students-to-get-artificial-intelligence-certification/ 

“I think a lot of people on this site underestimate the suspicion with which General Counsel’s offices already view LLMs. I bet that there will be a reluctance in US firms to adopt or use DeepSeek even if it is the best open, local model as they are worried about unspecified risks” / X
https://x.com/emollick/status/1883572124801200311 

Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2 Copyrightability Report
https://copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-2-Copyrightability-Report.pdf 

“Really good to see the Copyright Office moving towards understanding the full extent of what AI tools can offer to the industry. “The use of AI tools to assist rather than stand in for human creativity does not affect the availability of copyright protection for the output,”” / X
https://x.com/c_valenzuelab/status/1884638441008181573 

“This is a huge victory for A.I. Filmmakers across the world. The Copyright Office has officially declared what I’ve been preaching for so long. Work that has been manipulated and transformed by humans is indeed copyrightable, even if the tools used were rooted in A.I. . This is a” / X
https://x.com/NemPerez/status/1884659054863077669

Feb 07, 2025
Copyright Office Offers Assurance on AI Filmmaking Tools
https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/copyright-ai-tools-filmmaking-studios-office-1236288969/

US Copyright Office rules out copyright for AI created content without human input | TechSpot
https://www.techspot.com/news/106562-us-copyright-office-rules-out-copyright-ai-created.html 

“The US Copyright office has ruled that AI/human combined work can be copyrighted as long as a human is adding, changing or selecting elements. Prompts alone do not usually produce copyrighted work. Everything is case-by-case, but the report is clear and thoughtful about reasoning
https://x.com/emollick/status/1884956650919887327 

Feb 14, 2025
Australian lawyer caught using ChatGPT filed court documents referencing ‘non-existent’ cases | Australia news | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/01/australian-lawyer-caught-using-chatgpt-filed-court-documents-referencing-non-existent-cases 

Feb 27, 2025
“I built a multi-agent framework that pre-approves loan applications in under 5 minutes 🎉 1. Integrated 5 agents that make use of @Experian and @Plaid APIs for real-time credit and financial verification 2. The agents look up credit score, DTI, LTV, assets, property valuation https://x.com/n_sri_laasya/status/1890132203419627562

“Last week, @NWischoff asked for an “AI agent to underwrite a mortgage or even do a partially underwritten pre-approval in less than 24 hours.” @AgentOpsAI build a fully functional agent that pre-approves loan applications in under 5 minutes. Comment below if you are interested https://x.com/AtomSilverman/status/1891965335169008133

The Augmented Intelligence Era: Unlocking Unlimited Potential for the Future of Legal Work with Eudia https://www.eudia.com/blog/the-augmented-intelligence-era-unlocking-unlimited-potential-for-the-future-of-legal-work-with-eudia

“Deep Research as a small business incorporation legal consultant. Usually charged hundreds or even thousands of dollars an hour to offer this. Now free, only on Perplexity. https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1891563239240069245

“Harvey is THE vanguard AI app startup @NoPriorsPod w/ Cofounder-CEO @winstonweinberg on: *capability improvement *co-pilots, end to end task completion, and product strategy for AI apps *selling AI to enterprise *hiring philosophy *what lawyers do in 5 years links 👇 https://x.com/saranormous/status/1890437612327874751

“so. this will never* happen because law firms have to be owned 100% by attorneys. so it’s impossible* to make a law firm that is also a tech company that rewards non-lawyers with equity” / X https://x.com/andersonbcdefg/status/1891329620558983633

“I think this is directionally accurate tbh I am increasingly bearish on service companies (consulting/accounting/law firms) increasing their margins and becoming more akin to software companies” / X  https://x.com/finbarrtimbers/status/1891308159530082315

“put differently if Harvey (WLOG) is actually the future of law (which I largely believe) the natural conclusion is to launch their own law firm and dominate the vertical” / X https://x.com/finbarrtimbers/status/1891308426841461054

“Representative survey of US workers finds that GenAI use continues to grow: 30% use GenAI at work, 1/3 of those use it every day And the productivity gains appear large: workers report that when they use AI it triples their productivity (reduces a 90 minute task to 30 minutes) https://x.com/emollick/status/1890236327582658595

Surprise Move: Judge Walks Back AI Copyright Ruling in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS | BakerHostetler – JDSupra  https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/surprise-move-judge-walks-back-ai-6219521/

Feb 28, 2025
Dench.com is transforming legal lead qualification with AI voice agents. They offer real-time lead qualification, 24/7 availability, and seamless CRM integration at a fraction of the cost.
https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mr3-dench-com-ai-intake-for-law-firms

March 07, 2025
“Perplexity deep research just got me out of a $160 speeding ticket I had perplexity come up with a defence for my automatic speeding camera ticket based on local traffic laws and the documents they had mailed to me I read the image below and it worked (not legal advice) https://x.com/AtomSilverman/status/1895195144951079318

“notaries are the purest example of a rent seeking BS job that solely exists due to regulations & bullshit jobs are mostly immune to AI. we might actually instead see the “notarization” of other jobs to protect them from AI disruption ie regulations requiring humans in the loop” / X https://x.com/fabianstelzer/status/1897882991184994444

Surprise Move: Judge Walks Back AI Copyright Ruling in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS | BakerHostetler – JDSupra  https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/surprise-move-judge-walks-back-ai-6219521/

“Randomized trial AI for legal work finds Reasoning models are a big deal: Law students using o1-preview had the quality of their work on most tasks increase (up to 28%) & time savings of 12-28%. There were a few hallucinations, but a RAG-based AI reduced those to human level. https://x.com/emollick/status/1896625618877583431

March 14, 2025
Introducing Harvey Agents https://x.com/harvey__ai/status/1899491666429632907

“Harvey released Workflows AI agents for legal tasks, with reasoning, planning, and adapting capabilities In blind reviews, lawyer evaluators rated legal work produced by workflow agents as equal to or better than that of human lawyers  https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1899713342484173043

Judge allows authors’ AI copyright lawsuit against Meta to move forward | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/08/judge-allows-authors-ai-copyright-lawsuit-against-meta-to-move-forward/

March 21, 2025
“I just build notice explainer ai using @lovable_dev I built this to make sense of confusing tax notices that needs a clear breakdown. You can try it free with 5 credits, and I’d love your feedback! Also, feel free to test it on any kind of document—not just tax notices.” / X https://x.com/abhirb/status/1900173948794409074

April 11, 2025
“I built a web app using @lovable_dev that leverages AI trained in Nigerian Tenancy Law to: ✅ Inform tenants & landlords about their rights ⚖️ Connect users with real lawyers for dispute resolution 💰 Enable rent payments & property management
https://x.com/boysod_/status/1906760339158343764 

April 18, 2025
Transforming government service delivery in Abu Dhabi with LangGraph
The Abu Dhabi government’s AI Assistant, TAMM 3.0, now delivers 940+ services across all platforms with personalized, seamless interactions.
https://blog.langchain.com/customers-abu-dhabi-government/ 

April 25, 2025
“A new @HarvardBiz article shows a clear shift over the last year in how people are using AI. What started as a workplace tool is quickly becoming a daily companion. People are now turning to AI for everything from personal decision-making to thoughtful conversations, help https://x.com/yusuf_i_mehdi/status/1912995881567260964

UAE set to use AI to write laws in world first
https://archive.md/ubZAW 

UAE to use AI for writing laws  https://www.techinasia.com/news/uae-ai-writing-laws

“What is the next actual job that AI will actually replace. Customer Service has jailbreak issues Doctors/Lawyers/Accountants have reliability issues Therapists? or what can they reliably and safely do right now that can replace a currently real job?”  https://x.com/Teknium1/status/1914079672071331865

May 02, 2025
“AI is changing the way we work. The question now is, how do businesses and workers adapt? Check out how in the just-released 2025 Work Trend Index Annual Report: https://x.com/Microsoft365/status/1915103504500216121 

Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all • The Register https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/29/generative_ai_no_effect_jobs_wages/

“Today’s AIs are already hyper persuasive. A controversial study where LLMs tried to persuade users on Reddit found: “Notably, all our treatments surpass human performance substantially, achieving persuasive rates between three and six times higher than the human baseline.” https://x.com/emollick/status/1916905103358931084

May 09, 2025
Legal AI Contract Review & Drafting | Spellbook
https://www.spellbook.legal/ 

May 23, 2025
[2505.09662] Large Language Models Are More Persuasive Than Incentivized Human Persuaders https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09662 

The most obvious, lowest risk way to use AI (and to get a sense of how good it is) is to ask it for second opinions in your area of expertise. This works across most fields. And I’d go further: increasingly, not using AI as a second opinion is going to lead to worse outcomes.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1924152902907494870

May 30, 2025
UBS deploys AI analyst clones – SWI swissinfo.ch https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-ai/ubs-deploys-ai-analyst-clones/89349363

June 06, 2025
Claude Gov Models for U.S. National Security Customers \ Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-gov-models-for-u-s-national-security-customers

Learn how @jpmorgan developed a multi-agent system architecture for investment research. David Odomirok and Zheng Xue reveal how they built “”Ask David”” – a sophisticated multi-agent AI system designed to automate investment research for thousands of financial products. Watch https://x.com/LangChainAI/status/1928135137658818711

Large language models are proficient in solving and creating emotional intelligence tests | Communications Psychology https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-025-00258-x

June 13, 2025
The future of government work is here. Using Caucus, government employees can automate repetitive clerical tasks. With MCP integrations (including the first ever built for https://x.com/trycaucus/status/1929264100044931330

🔥 @harvey__ai’s Ben Liebald shares their proven approach to building legal AI agents using LangSmith evaluations and lawyer-in-the-loop methodology that lawyers trust for complex legal work. 🔥 Watch the full video to see their approach:  https://x.com/LangChainAI/status/1932858287265099900

Extract – a system built by the UK government, using our Gemini foundational model – will help council planners make faster decisions. 🚀 Using multimodal reasoning, it turns complex planning documents – even handwritten notes and blurry maps – into digital data in just 40s. https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1932032485254217799

June 20, 2025
Rewiring the way McKinsey works with Lilli, our generative AI platform | McKinsey Digital | McKinsey & Company https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/how-we-help-clients/rewiring-the-way-mckinsey-works-with-lilli

Inside the AI Tool Used by DOGE to Review Veterans Affairs Contracts — ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ai-tool-doge-veterans-affairs-contracts-sahil-lavingia 

These are tools for processing and analyzing VA contracts.
va/contracts/process_contracts.py at 35e3ff1b9e0eb1c8aaaebf3bfe76f2002354b782 · slavingia/va https://github.com/slavingia/va/blob/35e3ff1b9e0eb1c8aaaebf3bfe76f2002354b782/contracts/process_contracts.py 

More Than 40% of Employees Are Using AI at Work, a New Poll Says – CNET https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/more-than-40-of-employees-are-using-ai-at-work-a-new-poll-says/

Error checking is a great application of generative AI capabilities and there are low-hanging fruits in just about every domain: – Software: automatic detection of security vulnerabilities – Writing: identifying logical gaps, unclear structure, and weak arguments (can be seen as”” / X https://x.com/random_walker/status/1935311882857947507

SAKANA, generating loan approval documents with AI Multiple agents collaborate 🐟🐠🐡
“Mr. Ito emphasizes, ‘Instead of covering a broad field, we want to maximize precision.’ Given that general-purpose AI has a limited scope for automation in specialized domains and can be seen as ‘a jack of all trades, master of none,’ he believes they have a strong chance of success.”https://x.com/SakanaAILabs/status/1935136742459552170

📄🔍 GraphRAG Contract Analysis A powerful solution combining GraphRAG and LangGraph agents to analyze legal contracts using Neo4j knowledge graphs, featuring benchmarks across multiple LLMs. Check out the full implementation guide ➡️ https://x.com/LangChainAI/status/1934294834086387829

June 27, 2025
AI Is Going to ‘Replace Everybody’ in Several Fields. Paralegals, call centers most at risk. only top-skilled people will find jobs. – Geoffrey Hinton AGI could soon replace most human work, driving wages toward zero. – Anton Korinek, leading Economist  https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1937143790633906650

ChatGPT drafted a California renter-law rebuttal, nullifying a $275 cleaning fee. Fee waiver granted within five minutes. Such cases are plenty. Personally, ChatGPT is my best lawyer over the last 1 year. https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1938107456242270595

As I wrote a couple years ago, systems assuming writing can act as a proof of effort, ability, or care are going to collapse and need to be reconstituted. Everything from letters of recommendation to expert reports to essays to performance reviews…
https://x.com/emollick/status/1937562158281424943

🤖📄 Smart Document Assistant An AI agent that intelligently manages and processes documents, leveraging LangChain’s RAG technology to handle multiple files and provide accurate answers to your queries. Check out the implementation on GitHub 🔍 https://x.com/LangChainAI/status/1936846649852076197

Building AI Agents that Actually Automate Knowledge Work 👷🤖 My full talk at the @aiDotEngineer World Fair is available on YouTube! The talk breaks down what this concept of “knowledge automation” means (not necessarily calling any particular company, just take a look at any https://x.com/jerryjliu0/status/1937681047875191159

July 04, 2025
Introducing Workflows: a powerful new way to orchestrate complex legal tasks – a market-first leap in legal automation.
https://legora.com/product/workflows

Thomson Reuters survey finds 53% of legal, audit, and accounting firms already profit from AI; Even ad-hoc adopters saw ROI Source:
fortune.com/2025/07/01/ai-lawyers-accountants-auditors-lessons-for-us-all / https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1940349733555630101

Number of new UK entry-level jobs has dived since ChatGPT launch – research – Vacancies for graduate jobs, apprenticeships, internships and junior jobs with no degree requirement have dropped 32%, Adzuna finds | Economics | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jun/30/uk-entry-level-jobs-chatgpt-launch-adzuna

ai-copyright-lawsuits – a Hugging Face Space by fdaudens https://huggingface.co/spaces/fdaudens/ai-copyright-lawsuits

Many firms built around the limitations & cost assumptions of GPT-3.5 class models, and are now stuck with complex solutions that are more expensive & worse than a reasoner without any scaffolding You need to build solutions with an eye towards riding the cost/performance curve.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1939494862438453717

Fall in entry-level jobs linked to rise of AI tools – Personnel Today https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/fall-in-entry-level-jobs-linked-to-rise-of-ai-tools/

July 11, 2025
One of the biggest pain points in using LLMs for large-scale document extraction is actually coming up with the schema in the first place – it’s a long and tedious process ⏳ We built an two-stage, e2e agent workflow that does both schema generation and extraction: 1️⃣ It first https://x.com/jerryjliu0/status/1942375929353035897

Agentic Document Extraction now supports field extraction! Many doc extraction use cases extract specific fields from forms and other structured documents. You can now input a picture or PDF of an invoice, request the vendor name, item list, and prices, and get back the extracted https://x.com/AndrewYNg/status/1943319708859834499

July 18, 2025
Goldman Sachs is testing viral AI agent Devin as a ‘new employee’ | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/11/goldman-sachs-is-testing-viral-ai-agent-devin-as-a-new-employee/

An MCP Server for Legal Research (SCOTUS Opinions) 🧑‍⚖️ In less than 10 minutes I indexed 100+ Supreme Court opinions from 2022-2024, using LlamaCloud to parse/index the data with really high accuracy, and then made it available as an MCP server to any AI client. You can then use https://x.com/jerryjliu0/status/1941181730536444134

July 25, 2025
Citi is now deploying Devin across their engineering teams. We’re proud to partner with one of the world’s leading financial institutions to accelerate software development. More details below in @Citi’s story in American Banker. https://x.com/cognition_labs/status/1945904648629707093

OpenAI and UK sign deal to use AI in public services
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czdv68gejm7o 

Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07935 

August 01, 2025
There are far too few careful studies of the progress of AI in key professions and fields that may be most impacted Example: there are only a couple of good controlled studies on lawyers working with AI, the most recent used (now obsolete) o1-preview & even that had big effects.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1949495067309133836

August 08, 2025
We are actively evaluating GPT-5 models on document understanding capabilities 🔎📄 – specifically screenshotting the page and feeding it into the model. A WIP preliminary finding is that even though on paper GPT-5 is $1.25 per 1M tokens, it uses 4-5x more tokens than GPT-4.1, https://x.com/jerryjliu0/status/1953582723672814054

ChatGPT for speeding up North Carolina public servants (e.g. reducing some tasks from 20 minutes to 20 seconds): https://x.com/gdb/status/1951376444363514100

In partnership with the Government Services Administration, we are providing ChatGPT to the entire U.S. federal workforce for essentially no cost for the next year.
https://x.com/gdb/status/1953120865115074805

Providing ChatGPT to the entire U.S. federal workforce | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/providing-chatgpt-to-the-entire-us-federal-workforce/

“My attorney is personally fascinated with an ongoing issue: a lot of federal judges (who can’t be fired, ever, btw) are using AI to draft opinions. The results are ENFORCED ORDERS that cite parties not relevant to the case and who do not exist, and case law that never happened.” / X
https://x.com/XJosh/status/1950636177067020639 

“Yikes! Another hallucinated opinion, this time justifying a temporary restraining order enjoining enforcement of a State law. The rush to issue orders like this undermines the judiciary. Even worse–apparently the “corrected” opinion still has a hallucinated case . . . https://t.co/qfnRaMtSGQ” / X
https://x.com/EWess92/status/1950564393558913090

“Plus, these judges are likely using free or default models. Even o1-preview significantly reduced hallucinations, let alone more recent or more grounded models. (Though, to be clear, AI should definitely not be used to create legal opinions from sitting judges at this point)”
https://x.com/emollick/status/1950742345546150237