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IT Home reported on November 7 that, according to a Business Insider report published early today (the 7th), Alex Spiro, a prominent lawyer frequently hired by Musk and a partner in the New York office of Quinn Emanuel, believes AI could significantly streamline redundant litigation procedures in the legal industry, allowing more cases to settle quickly or go straight to trial.
Spiro said AI tools can help lawyers decide more quickly whether a case is worth litigating. “I think AI can eliminate many unnecessary steps in the work we do, including my own. Removing those steps would let us establish the facts and organize the information more quickly. With that information, we can decide sooner whether a case should settle or whether we should fight it to the end.”
Spiro has represented actor Alec Baldwin, rapper Jay-Z, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, and former New York City mayor Eric Adams.
He believes AI could reduce the number of cases that remain tied up in litigation for long periods, consuming considerable time and money. “Perhaps many of the cumbersome intermediate steps will be eliminated, so cases either settle quickly or go straight to trial, without going through so many pointless litigation procedures that drag things back and forth between settlement and trial.”
AI could also bring more cases to trial, because lawyers can analyze the facts more quickly and decide which cases are worth pursuing. “Maybe more cases will actually go to trial. People can say, ‘Okay, we’ve just analyzed 10 cases. 9 should settle, and the remaining 1 cannot settle; we have to fight it to the end.’ That way, they won’t be so hesitant. Some companies clearly believe ‘These 3 cases need to go to trial,’ but end up compromising because they are too afraid of the risk.”
Spiro stressed, however, that AI will not change his litigation strategy. “The way I litigate and the way I present a case to a jury have not changed in 20 years. Some arguments work, and some simply don’t. Jurors won’t change because of AI, either. So I’ll still communicate with them the same way. The only change is that I may not need as many people gathering material for me to turn into arguments, or that technological tools may make it simpler and more direct for them to obtain information, allowing them to do their work faster and more efficiently.”
Asked whether AI might make clients overly confident in their own legal judgments, Spiro joked that he was all too familiar with that situation: “Almost every client I represent thinks they know the law better than I do. That’s my specialty.”