The Fulfilling Future of Law: How AI Enhances Professional Satisfaction
24 May 2025Vincent AIvLex Insights
People go to law school because they want to make a difference. Maybe they’re drawn to the intellectual challenge of the legal profession and want to shape public policy. Maybe they imagine zealously advocating for clients and fighting injustice. Maybe they simply watched too many episodes of Suits. The bottom line is: people become lawyers because they love the law.
At vLex, we love the law, but we also recognize the reality that many lawyers may not anymore, due to some of the uncomfortable truths about legal practice. That’s why our team is so dedicated to engineering AI that can help lighten lawyers’ loads. Our Vincent AI platform has over twenty workflows capable of performing some of the legal field’s most frustrating and time-consuming tasks.
Let Vincent do the heavy lifting for the mundane parts of your job, so you’ll have more time to be the kind of lawyer you envisioned when you were a wide-eyed and hopeful first year.
The Uncomfortable Truth About Legal Practice
The data paints a grim picture. Lawyers rank among the unhappiest of professionals, with nearly a quarter grappling with chronic stress and anxiety that often starts early in their careers and never relents. Depression touches nearly half of attorneys at some point. Burnout is rampant. Even 47% of in-house counsel report that they are “very or extremely stressed/burned out.”
The sobering result is that huge numbers of lawyers are considering leaving the profession:
- A survey of Massachusetts lawyers found that 40% were contemplating leaving law.
- The New Jersey Bar Association found that 28% of lawyers have considered leaving the profession because of mental health, burnout, or stress.
- A staggering one in five young attorneys plan to quit the field entirely within five years of graduation.
Rediscovering Your Passion for Practice
A major culprit causing lawyers to dislike their careers are the monotonous, repetitive tasks that are time-consuming and dull. This might include things like document review, legal research, or drafting routine documents.
These types of tasks are inherent to practicing law and critical to client success, but are considered time-consuming grunt work within the industry. That’s why these kinds of tasks are often delegated to younger associates, while more senior attorneys have earned the authority to work solely on the higher-value tasks they enjoy.
For small law firms and solo practitioners, passing off less desirable work as you grow more senior might be impossible. What if you don’t have any associates?
Our Vincent AI platform was engineered specifically for lawyers, with over twenty workflows like “Explore a Collection” that helps review documents and “Ask a Research Question,” which performs legal research. Vincent even has a “50 State Survey” workflow that can perform one of the most labor-intensive legal tasks, which would traditionally take weeks or months, in a matter of minutes.
Lawyers go into the profession because they genuinely like having their intellect challenged and helping their clients. By letting Vincent handle the monotonous tasks, lawyers have more time for the tasks they want to do, like courtroom advocacy, client counseling, or negotiating deals.
Or Maybe It’s About the People You Love
For many lawyers, the issue isn't just performing tasks they don’t like—it's about their job keeping them from the people they love the most. The long hours, weekend work, and constant stress can strain personal relationships and prevent attorneys from being present for important moments.
What you do with the extra time you gain with Vincent's help is entirely up to you: grow your book of business or leave your business in the rear view at 5 o’clock sharp.
Here are some unfiltered insights from legal innovators who have implemented AI in their law firms:
In my crystal ball, we're going to be talking a lot more about how GenAI actually increases the satisfaction and the quality of life for legal professionals. I don't think we're talking about that enough. This is a wonderful profession, and I'm grateful every day that I went to law school. But it's intense and it's demanding and it's deadline based and it's unpredictable. And this technology has the potential to really help manage some of those challenges.
The night before a trial, I needed to research a unique legal issue, file a motion, and write a new complaint. While I could have completed these tasks without Vincent AI, the tool’s efficiency allowed me to spend the evening with my baby daughter instead of working.
I think it has a really great potential to help people be where they want to be when they want to be there. For some lawyers, that might be working with more clients, getting more work. For other lawyers, they might love to do the big, high-end work, but they want a better work-life balance, so they want to be able to go to their kid’s little league game.
Don’t Leave the Law, Learn to Love It Again
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, making this an important time to acknowledge the very real challenges facing the legal profession. The high rates of anxiety, depression, and burnout aren't just statistics—they represent real people struggling to maintain their wellbeing while practicing law.
You don't have to join the many lawyers considering an exit from the profession. Vincent AI can provide you with career satisfaction by helping you complete the tasks you don't like doing faster, so you can spend your time with the people you love or on the parts of practicing law you enjoy.
When you make Vincent part of your legal team, you aren't just buying cutting-edge legal technology—you're buying more time dedicated to growing your practice; you're buying back your weekends; and you're buying back your love for the law.
Ready to fall back in love with the law? Start your free trial of Vincent AI today to experience AI engineered for lawyers.
Authored by
Sierra Van Allen