Code of law
The legal industry is at the tip of the spear in the AI shift, and top firms like Gilbert + Tobin are racing to make it part of every lawyer’s toolkit.
The growing impact of AI on the broader economy and workforce is one of the hottest topics in business at the moment. And few industries are more exposed to disruption by the current generation of AI models and agentic systems than law.
Law firms might balk at the oversimplification, but they are, in essence, giant text-processing machines. Their work revolves around large volumes of dense, structured text governed by plenty of formal rules, from contracts and case law to discovery documents and compliance materials.
And modern AI models from providers like OpenAI and Anthropic are, if nothing else, quite adept at parsing, summarising, generating and interpreting patterns in large volumes of text.
Gilbert + Tobin is one of several top-tier law firms rethinking their operations for the AI era. This week, our legal editor Michael Pelly sat down with AI leaders at the firm to find out how.
