Odd Lots · Monday, July 13, 2026
The rise of AI is transforming legal training, moving junior lawyers away from tedious grunt work and towards more interesting tasks earlier in their careers. Lowenstein Sandler is adapting by integrating AI tools into training, allowing associates to use AI for tasks like drafting favorable provisions and accessing firm-wide deal knowledge.
“So the tedious jobs are going away. First, junior lawyers, I think are going to be doing more interesting work sooner. We have to. We have not fully figured out yet and we will solve, but we haven't full yet how to train people without going through that tedious work.”
“We're now going to What we've started doing is make sure everybody brings their laptop with them to the training and that they have their AI tools open at the at the same time and as part of the training, you're saying, Okay, now take this provision and put it in this tool and see what the responses are. See tell it you're representing a seller, and give me a seller favorable provision to negotiate it.”
“Using this technology, I can make sure every junior lawyer has access to all of the knowledge of our entire firm in doing similar types of deals or litigation or bankruptcy proceedings. As opposed to just having a walk through the halls and try to find somebody who's done it before and just talk to them about what they've done. You will now have access to basically a dashboard with all with all prior documents, and I think that makes you much smarter faster.”