It would be highly irresponsible, and frankly abusive to the client, to continue to bill $800 an hour and not use AI to increase your productivity. As with work by a junior associate, you then have to actually look over the results, but that’s part of the job.
I would expect that the nature of the review is rather different. Senior lawyers today have not been trained on a working environment where a lot of their junior associates make up fake case citations, as LLMs have done. Human associates have something to lose by committing blatant misconduct; LLMs don’t (or if they do, they’re unaware of it); so the terms of the deal when employing LLMs are different from those when employing junior humans.
It would probably be a good idea to have the junior associate check the citations and read the document first, before the senior lawyer does. Still should save a lot of net time.
I would expect that the nature of the review is rather different. Senior lawyers today have not been trained on a working environment where a lot of their junior associates make up fake case citations, as LLMs have done. Human associates have something to lose by committing blatant misconduct; LLMs don’t (or if they do, they’re unaware of it); so the terms of the deal when employing LLMs are different from those when employing junior humans.
It would probably be a good idea to have the junior associate check the citations and read the document first, before the senior lawyer does. Still should save a lot of net time.