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This year will be a tipping point in which the majority of the legal industry will be AI-powered, a leading solicitor said in a comment released for publication this week. But what does that mean?

Is artificial intelligence going to take over from the real thing? Will lawyers no longer be needed?

“We predict that AI will create a huge dividing line between small, innovative firms that use it to rapidly accelerate and more traditional firms who choose to remain set in their approach,” explained Jonathan Waters, who founded Helix Law as a boutique litigation practice nearly 15 years ago.

But what will the clients make of it? They may associate AI with non-existent cases cited by hapless lawyers or career-ending errors made by law enforcement chiefs.

To find out, I invited Waters to join me on A Lawyer Talks. His answers were both surprising and reassuring.

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