AI Agents Are Reshaping Legal Work: What Lawyers Need to Know

Agentic AI tools now take autonomous real-world actions, forcing lawyers to adopt new supervision, competence, and accountability practices akin to managing junior staff.

• Agentic shift defined: Hosts distinguish chatbots (text-only, requires back-and-forth) from agentic AI, which takes a high-level goal, breaks it into subtasks, and acts autonomously via APIs, browsers, and payment credentials.
• Personal assistants go mainstream: Both hosts use Instinct, a consumer AI agent in beta that independently negotiated contractor bids, paved a driveway, and planned a birthday party end-to-end; Instinct reportedly raised $1B at a $10B valuation.

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