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ARTICLE · 04 NOVEMBER 2025

Artificial Intelligence And Legal Services: The Promise, The Progress, And The Pitfalls

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For professionals across industries, the benefits of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are simply too powerful to ignore. From healthcare to agriculture and education, tailored AI tools are already transforming how wo

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Foluso Olusanya
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For professionals across industries, the benefits of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are simply too powerful to ignore. From healthcare to agriculture and education, tailored AI tools are already transforming how work gets done. Now, the legal profession is discovering Generative AI — and the way legal services are delivered may never be the same again. Lawyers now stand at the edge of a major shift in how legal services are accessed, delivered, and understood.

Generative artificial intelligence (Generative AI) refers to deep-learning models (such as ChatGPT, Grok, Midjourney etc.) that can be used to create new content, including audio, code, images, text, simulations, and videos.1 It makes use of advanced algorithms to organize data or prompts into specific outputs.

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