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Technology

Jul. 7, 2026

Why the litigator will outlive the machine, part one

The first of five letters on what artificial intelligence will do to the practice of law.

Bahram Seyedin-Noor

CEO and Founder
Alto Litigation, PC

Phone: (415) 868-5602

Email: bahram@altolit.com

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Why the litigator will outlive the machine, part one
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A good friend of mine asked me the other day whether his daughter should apply to law school. He is a thoughtful person who pays attention to where the world is going and he had heard what everyone has heard: that the artificial intelligence now loose in the world will, within a few years, make of the legal profession what Netflix made of Blockbuster. He did not want his daughter to be training for a career that might be obsolete by the time she was admitted to the bar.

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