Some of the early lawyerly uses of AI have been no bueno.[0] Yet the legal need to produce knowledge from huge amounts of text is such an obvious alignment with LLMs...
I think most everyone would agree that using early LLMs (and personally I'd still consider current LLMs to be early) in legal contexts is ill-advised, at best. Circle back to this question in 5 years and I think the response will be very different.
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/29/canada-lawyer-... https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/27/nyregion/avianca-airline-... https://www.npr.org/2023/12/30/1222273745/michael-cohen-ai-f...