Jay McAllister: The Next Evolution of AI in Legal Practice

By Steve Fretzin on February 13, 2025

In this episode, Steve Fretzin and Jay McAllister discuss:

The evolving role of AI in legal practice
Leveraging AI for business development and marketing
Ethical and risk considerations when using AI in law
The future of legal technology and the rise of agentic AI

Key Takeaways:

Many law firms have shifted from traditional keyword-based legal research to AI-powered tools that analyze case law and provide curated, context-aware results, significantly reducing time spent on research.
Insurance carriers and other clients are leveraging data analytics and AI to challenge the hours law firms bill, forcing firms to adopt more efficient AI-driven workflows.
A Stanford AI ethics professor submitted a legal brief with fabricated citations generated by AI, leading the judge to reject it outright and issue a warning that lawyers must verify AI-generated content before submitting it to court.
Future AI systems will not only respond to queries but proactively complete legal tasks by recognizing key case milestones, drafting motions automatically, and sending them for attorney review.

“There were jobs that were lost, but ultimately, I don’t think of it as a job that was lost. These jobs were transitioned to perform more useful, more useful activities.” — Jay McAllister

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About Jay McAllister: Jay McAllister is the CEO of Paragon Tech. Driven by an unquenchable thirst for applied learning and innovation, Jay helps lawyers get the most out of their technology. In other words, they go from low-tech and busy to high-tech and productive.

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