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How law firms should change in the generative AI era

Noriaki Asato
Written by Noriaki Asato Representative Attorney / Founder & CEO, Legal Agent

Supports corporate legal work, M&A, startup fundraising, contract review, and generative AI legal operations.

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This English page summarizes the Japanese article for readers who prefer English. LegalAgent is an AI Native Law Firm focused on corporate legal work, legal outsourcing and practical legal operations for modern companies.

Overview

Traditional law firm work has long been designed around human labor. This article discusses how an AI Native Law Firm should operate.

The central point is that corporate legal work should be designed around business speed, legal quality and operational clarity. Generative AI can support initial organization, comparison and drafting, but lawyers should remain responsible for final legal judgment.

Practical perspective

In practice, legal advice is useful only when it reflects the business model, internal rules, counterparty relationship, risk tolerance and timing of the decision. LegalAgent therefore combines specialist lawyers with AI-assisted workflows to provide advice that can be used by business teams.

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