{"id":47922,"date":"2026-03-19T09:11:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/chief-justice-john-roberts-says-in-the-age-of-ai-its-going-to-be-really-tough-for-young-lawyers\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:11:17","slug":"chief-justice-john-roberts-says-in-the-age-of-ai-its-going-to-be-really-tough-for-young-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/chief-justice-john-roberts-says-in-the-age-of-ai-its-going-to-be-really-tough-for-young-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief Justice John Roberts says in the age of AI &#8216;it&#8217;s going to be really tough for young lawyers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69bb0fead387710cb9e4608e?format=jpeg\" alt=\"John Roberts speaks during an event at Georgetown Law School\"\/><figcaption>Chief Justice John Roberts said he asked his son to show him what AI can do.  The results left Roberts &quot;completely befuddled.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Manuel Balce Ceneta\/File\/AP<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Chief Justice John Roberts is worried about how AI will affect the legal profession.<\/li>\n<li>Roberts is especially concerned for young lawyers.<\/li>\n<li>Roberts says he was left &quot;completely befuddled&quot; when his son showed him how AI could create a song about their dog.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chief Justice John Roberts said AI will put pressure on everyone, from prospective law students to judges.<\/p>\n<p>The legal profession will change as a result, Roberts said. His advice is that future lawyers will need to be &quot;pretty nimble&quot; in response to how AI alters the industry. He said he still hopes that &quot;good people&quot; continue to enter the field.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The job of both young lawyers and partners is going to change,&quot; Roberts said during a public appearance at Rice University on Tuesday evening. &quot;And I think people, and I certainly hope good people, continue to go into law, but they&#039;re going to have to be pretty nimble to change in response to those.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j8vUUl_vcKc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Roberts&#039; comments come as multiple AI startups compete over the future of corporate law and the estimated $1 trillion legal market. Harvey, the biggest name in the space, already has a valuation above $8 billion.<\/p>\n<p>AI firms in general and startups in the legal space are continuing to work to weed out hallucinations, to try to prevent lawyers from citing made-up cases. Roberts said that &quot;AI will make mistakes, but so do young lawyers. &quot;<\/p>\n<p>The nation&#039;s chief justice expressed particular concern for &quot;the types of pressures&quot; young lawyers may face as AI advances to the point that it can complete tasks traditionally reserved for junior associates.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I think it&#039;s going to be really tough for young lawyers,&quot; he said. &quot;Four or five years out, AI is going to be \u2014 a partner&#039;s going to come to you and say, &#039;I need you to analyze this statute and how it&#039;s been treated.&#039; If AI is going to give an answer in three minutes, it&#039;s going to take the young lawyer, who knows, three days more than that. &quot;<\/p>\n<p>Roberts said he&#039;s also worried about how judges like himself might be affected by AI. He appears to remain behind his 2023 prediction that &quot;human judges will be around for a while, but AI pressures are about more than just job displacement.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;One thing that worries me, for example, you can put records in cases into the computer and tell AI who should win, whether it&#039;s under the law of Nebraska or law generally, it&#039;ll come out, and it&#039;ll give you an answer,&quot; he said. &quot;Based on this record, 68% of the time, the plaintiff will win. Now, if you&#039;re a judge and you get the same sort of case, there&#039;s some pressure, isn&#039;t there? I want to be right, 68% more likelihood of being right.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>As for himself, Roberts, a self-described &quot;dinosaur when it comes to the technology,&quot; said he&#039;ll mostly rely on his clerks to keep him abreast of AI advancements. He also has his two kids, both in their mid-20s, whom he said love playing around with it. Roberts said his son, Jack, showed him how he used AI to create a song about the family&#039;s dog visiting the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;And so he goes, &#039;Write a song about a little dog named Jojo who goes to the court where his owner is the chief justice.&#039; He says, &#039;And do it in rap.&#039; Like that,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The chief justice was utterly amazed.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I mean, how do they do that?&quot; he said. The song comes out, &#039;Jojo, go, the court.&#039; And then he says, &#039;Okay, now do it in Country Western,&#039; different voice, same sort of thing. I remember whatever it is, and then, &#039;Do it as an orchestra. Do it.&#039; And I&#039;m just completely befuddled by how that can happen.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Justice John Roberts said he asked his son to show him what AI can do. The results left Roberts &quot;completely befuddled.&quot; Manuel Balce Ceneta\/File\/AP Chief Justice John Roberts is worried about how AI will affect the legal profession. Roberts is especially concerned for young lawyers. 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