25/10/2025
Every young lawyer I meet today starts their day with ChatGPT.
And honestly? I don’t blame them.
When I started out, "research" meant flipping through 500-page digests and hoping the right precedent appeared before your deadline did.
Today, you can type a few prompts and get ten case summaries in under a minute.
It’s efficient. It’s smart. It’s terrifying.
Because in this profession, speed is not the same as understanding.
The first time I saw an AI-generated legal draft, I remember thinking- "Impressive… but it doesn’t feel like law."
The structure was perfect. The tone was off.
It lacked judgment...the human kind.
That’s why I strongly agree with what Supreme Court Justice Surya Kant said recently:
"AI can guide, but lawyers and judges must be the final arbiters."
I have seen both sides of this profession.
The days when you’d spend 6 hours just finding the right case law.. and the days when you can get the same result in 6 seconds.
But here’s what has not changed:
The law still demands context, conscience, and courage.
AI can help us find answers.
But it can’t decide what’s right.
Maybe that’s where our real role begins now- not as data gatherers, but as interpreters of judgment.
Because law will always need something no algorithm can replicate- a sense of justice. 🙏
