AI is one of the first things I find being discussed when I meet lawyers from around the world.
We discuss the question of how accurate our respective AI systems are. How will younger lawyers ever get to learn what good drafting looks like.  How will we work out what to charge our clients when we have spent at least 35 years charging on the basis of the hourly rate.
What we forget is that until we started charging by time, lawyers would charge by the letter, by the phone call, by the attendance note, and meeting. When hourly rates became the absolute way to charge, no doubt the law firm managers of those days threw their hands up in horror – will life, they must have thought, ever be the same again?
I remember too when I got my first computer on my desk at work. I was the second solicitor in my then firm to get one. Again, everyone used to say, it is the end of life as we know it: books were written about the end of lawyers.  Computers would take over.  In fact, law firms have grown hugely since those days, with even more lawyers, producing even more documents, even more quickly. 
So, here we are again, at another dramatic cross-roads for law firms, where, indeed, life won’t be the same.  But I suspect it will be ok for those of us who adopt to the new ways, and new types of work will be developed, and more lawyering will be done more quickly than ever before. And in some time in the future, someone like me will look back nostalgically at those days in 2025 when we didn’t know how AI will play out.
Sometimes, you gotta roll with it.