Technology,
Law Practice
Feb. 17, 2026
The impact of general-purpose AI on legal practice, staffing and the economics of legal research
For decades, legal research rested on the scarcity of authoritative information; general-purpose AI now places that assumption under pressure by changing how experienced lawyers test, refine and pressure-check legal reasoning.
Neal J. Fialkow
Attorney and Founder
The Law Office of Neal J. Fialkow Inc.
Labor and Employment
Phone: (626) 584-6060
Email: nfialkow@fialkowlawgroup.com
For decades, legal research and legal staffing have rested on a largely unexamined assumption: that authoritative legal information is scarce, expensive to curate and inseparable from the daily work of individual lawyers. From that premise flowed an entire economic structure. Research platforms charged high per-seat prices. Law firms distributed access broadly. Junior lawyers learned by retrieving law...
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