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Technology

Oct. 17, 2025

Copycat law: Can AI replace my expensive legal team?

Using AI in place of a creative legal mind will only ever produce a cover version -- and in high-stakes battles, you need the kind of original thinking AI can't deliver.

Lielle Arad

Founder
Arad Law APC

She focuses on civil litigation and intellectual property disputes and writes on creativity and innovation in the legal profession.

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Copycat law: Can AI replace my expensive legal team?
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Every law that has ever been created started with some creative, original thinking. Yet 99% of lawyers are copycat lawyers. Only 1% lead the pack -- 99% follow.

Now as many lawyers and their clients are turning to artificial intelligence to think, write and even argue, the gap between the creative and the copycat is widening even more....

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