Extract from Kristy Esparza’s article “From Hesitation to Mastery: AI Visionaries’ Tips for Legal Professionals”
2013 was a simpler time. Everyone was doing the Harlem Shake, we collectively wondered what the fox says, and AI was just beginning to make waves in the legal world. When I started at Relativity in 2013, technology-assisted review was the hot new tool. We’d often compare it to Netflix—it was an easy, attainable way to explain how the technology recommends documents for review.
We’ve come a long way since that once-simple analogy, and while the world is considerably more comfortable with AI, there’s still … a hesitation. A tendency to dip a toe, rather than dive in headfirst.
Then, there are the AI Visionaries. The legal professionals who cannonball into the deep end—and help others do the same.
So, we asked a few of members of our 2025 cohort: What should legal professionals know about learning to work with AI?
