Josh Kern, in his article for CLIO blog, argues that AI can deliver significant efficiency and cost-saving benefits to legal practice, helping automate routine tasks such as legal research and analysis, document management, and billing. 

He reviews five AI-driven tools that can help the profession practice law more efficiently and become more client-centric in areas ranging from E-Discovery, legal research, document management and automation, due diligence, to litigation analysis. 

He concludes that while AI can save lawyers time, support automation, improve legal writing, it’s not here to steal billable hours from its human counterparts.