A Law Firm Just Hired Its First Artificial Intelligence Attorney . While only a portion of the typical attorney's work involves legal research and creation of memoranda of law and tables of authorities, AI Ross can apparently understand natural language queries, perform legal research, and spit out memoranda of law and answers without human intervention. A human lawyer can then evaluate the response, and advise clients accordingly. Will AI lawyers take over the practice, or will they just enhance the ability of the lawyers still working? What if clients decide that the quaility of the work product and the answers of the AI computer give them the option to cut out the middleman?