As a commercial lawyer, I use AI every day. Unlike much of the commentary around it, it doesn’t save me much time. If anything, it makes me slower and more careful. If I am lazy and ask it for an answer I have to check almost every legal principle it gives me, because it confidently makes things up. What I find it useful for is thinking. Where I might once have bounced an issue off a colleague and then made the call, I now use AI in that role and still make the call. If you’re using it to do the bulk of your drafting or to give advice without verification, you’re not a modern lawyer. You’re outsourcing judgment, and that will almost certainly end in an avoidable mistake. Judgment is what clients actually pay lawyers for. And it’s the one thing you can’t responsibly delegate.