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AI is now shaking up the court and legal worlds. Do we need to pay lawyers huge amounts afor basic stuff AI can do? The other big issue: How do judges determine evidence is genuine and not AI-created?

In this Issue: AI isn’t replacing lawyers—it’s reprogramming the profession. From instant litigation drafts to collapsing junior training pathways, intelligent systems are redrawing legal work, ethics, and economics. A new AI-augmented counsel is emerging—faster, cheaper, sometimes dangerously flawed. Meanwhile, voice cloning scams hit government, with an AI-generated Marco Rubio duping foreign ministers. And in our Hot Take: Elon Musk’s xAI retools Grok to challenge media narratives—raising questions about truth, bias, and chatbot controversy.

You Used to Call Your Lawyer. Now You Query the Model

Algorithmic Counsel: How AI Is Rewriting Law’s Rulebook

The age of machine advocacy isn’t looming—it’s already researching precedent, drafting motions, and compressing billable hours, forcing the legal profession to renegotiate value, training, and trust.

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