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As AI agents become integrated into legal teams, there is a need for a clear governance framework within AI legal platforms to enable effective supervision and management of these agents.
Anyone else obsessed with what the capabilities of clawdbots / moltbots could mean for legal? This feels like a HUGE moment. I’ve always said, change in legal doesn’t happen linearly, but in step changes.... and this may be the biggest one yet. For years, AI in legal has lived at the edges through research, drafting, and summaries. Helpful, yes. But what we’re seeing now is different. These arent just agents. The rise of AI assistants that can execute, coordinate, and reason is the shift from tools around the edges to something much bigger, especially for knowledge workers. This is what AI promised us, what we've been waiting for. I have always thought the idea of "robot lawyers" was possible but still years away. Suddenly, that timeline feels very compressed. We’re at the dawn of what I’d call "legal AI employees." So now the real question isn’t IF, but how fast and at what level. Do these agents show up first as paralegals and legal assistants? Or do we move quickly into associate-level work… and beyond? No one knows. And that uncertainty will make people nervous. Perhaps as always, there’s nothing to fear. The world is only getting more complex which means demand for legal services keeps growing. What I do know is that the era of “AI as a drafting tool” is ending. The era of "AI as a legal colleague" is beginning. Giddy up. We're experiencing the next great accelerator of change... What an incredible time to be in Legal!