Brendan W. Miller argues that while AI adoption in the legal profession is accelerating rapidly, professionals’ ability to exercise sound judgment about when and how to use these tools has not kept pace. He emphasizes that lawyers cannot delegate their duty of verification to AI systems, citing cases such as Mata v. Avianca in which attorneys faced sanctions for submitting hallucinated case citations. Miller proposes strategies for building “judgment maturity,” including scenario-based training on AI limitations and categorizing AI use cases by risk level, arguing that legal organizations must shift from teaching prompting techniques to developing professionals who can make sound decisions about AI deployment.
