Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
They need to be very, very good at utilizing these tools and investing in themselves. If you need motivation to learn how to use AI in your career right now, we probably have other things that we should be concerned about with you.
— Chase Simmons, chair of Polsinelli, in comments given during an appearance on Bloomberg Law’s On The Merits podcast, concerning attorneys’ use of artificial intelligence at the firm. He went on to say that lawyers at the firm won’t receive billable credit for their AI training, noting, “[t]his should just be every day you wake up and have breakfast and think about how to incorporate this into your career.”
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