Everyone's asking how AI will change legal work which is the wrong angle on the question.

For episode 100 of Legal Innovation Spotlight, I asked Ed Walters a better one.

What will great lawyers do in 2027 that AI cannot?

His answer reframed everything for me.

If we keep training lawyers to be the lawyers of 2007, we are going to fail.

Computers keep getting better at brute force legal work.

So the edge moves.

In 2027, the ceiling is built on human skills:
• Counseling
• Discernment
• Judgment
• Supervising software
• Picking the right tool
• Weighing risk with clients

Not soft skills.

Human skills.

AI raises the floor. Human skills raise the ceiling.

Episode 100 drops today.

Available wherever you listen to podcasts and on the Legal Innovation Spotlight website.

What human skill do you think will matter most?