Source: Hackaday
Legal professionals are absorbing disciplinary penalties as a cost of doing business rather than abandoning AI assistance. The efficiency gains outweigh the reputational and financial risks in a competitive market. This mirrors how other knowledge workers have adopted unvetted tools—the penalty structure isn't working as a deterrent because the alternative (manual work at scale) is economically untenable. Regulatory frameworks built for human-only workflows can't force workers backward once they've seen what automation enables.