ANALYSIS: Will Basic Contract Skills Matter When AI Takes Over?

As generative artificial intelligence gains favor in transactional law, law firms and corporate legal departments will want to increase efforts to train their lawyers on using new AI tools to draft contracts. But do the attorneys most likely to be assigned such tasks have a firm enough grasp on the fundamental transactional legal skills needed to effectively validate AI results?

Veteran attorneys believe that their less-experienced counterparts could use some help in developing a grasp of basic contract drafting skills, according to results from a recent Bloomberg Law survey. This lack of full confidence suggests that in the coming year, ...