By Bao Nguyen

RETHINKING LEGAL CAREERS IN THE AI ERA

Acknowledgment: The author is grateful to Mr Bui Ngoc Hong (Partner at LNT & Partners) for his thoughtful comments and practical insights, which helped improve this article.

AI won’t replace human lawyers, but it will redefine what makes lawyers valuable. And we must build our strategies to maximise where human lawyers are valued most, and ultimate providing clients more efficiently with robust, trusted, and sophisticated advice.

This is the argument that I want to make. Often, we see a concern that AI will soon replace lawyers in much of legal work, pushing lawyers to change or risk being gradually sidelined. I agree that lawyers must change. But change driven by unfounded fear of AI, or simply Fear-of-Missing-Out (FOMO) could be worse than no change at all.

It may not be realistic for lawyers to stop serving clients to rethink their practice or test every new approach. Change must happen while client work continues, like changing a wheel on a moving car. It is challenging, and therefore requires a strategy for adaption.

In this article, I first examine the core values that today’s clients seek from today’s lawyers, then consider the areas where AI can help. Based on that, I discuss how lawyers can adapt to the AI era proactively and strategically, rather than changing merely because everyone else is rushing to do so. As most of my career has been in law firms, this article focuses on law firm career development in the AI era.

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