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Anyone who has watched the TV show Suits will likely remember dozens of legal associates trawling through reams of documents, all in the same cramped room, late into the night. As archaic as those scenes now look, we know this often happened during a typical associate's legal career.

Artificial intelligence now frees up time for everyday lawyers, who are no longer chained to their desks and now brimming with capacity to take on strategic responsibility. Whether that means crunching down on cases, winning new business, or coming up with fresh and innovative ideas to benefit the firm, surely lawyers are more able to leave the monotony behind and engage with the higher-end work that really matters to the business.

That's the promise anyway, but is it reality?