7 Aug 2025
Episode 45 - We Love AI - How AI Makes Us Better
Dan Watkins brings more than 40 years of perspective to the topic of Artificial Intelligence or AI. This isn't something to be feared - it's something to be embraced. It makes us better at our jobs, saves our clients time and money. Saves our attorneys time, allowing us to spend more time with our clients and getting to know the nuances, the facts, the details surrounding the events in question, or their business goals, challenges and opportunities.
We think AI is great. AI is like these other programs, and if your lawyer's up to speed, which they should be on emails, communications, text messages, computer research, then this is just a transition for them. It's not much of a change because AI summarizes the law we already know. And a lot of our time is spent with clients trying to educate them on what the law is. So when a says, 'I used AI and I asked about my case,' first thing we say is, 'you didn't mention your own name, did you?' Keep it anonymous because AI gets shared with everybody on the planet.
But use AI because instead of the hundreds of dollars an hour you pay your lawyer to explain what the law is, you could already have an understanding of what the law is from your questions to AI and save a ton of money. Then we can spend your time talking about the nuances, the important details of your specific case and how it changes. Because unless you've gone to law school, you can't ask yourself questions that we need to ask you to get to the really important details that may make your case wonderful, or Oh boy, we're in trouble.
The more you're allowed to talk to your lawyer about you, the better your attorney can do representing you. I love it when I can have a client into my office and talk to them and they just talk and talk and talk, and we listen. We take notes, we get all this wonderful information, and then if we're in a litigation, we crush the other side. If we're in a transaction, we know which deal points to push, which deal points to go soft on, go easy. What you really need in the deal, where you are in your life, all the background, all that information about you is gold for us lawyers when it comes to being successful and what we do. So use AI. Let's talk about what AI is. Alright, from a lawyer's perspective, AI is the next step in research and analysis, all these programs just like looking up a question on Google, but it's faster, and you'll often get a better answer, quicker.
