I’ve been training lawyers to think of GenAI as the world’s most tireless paralegal—brilliant, fast, and helpful, but with one strange quirk: it forgets everything the moment you close the file. When we stop expecting it to be a wise old partner and start treating it like a competent (but amnesiac) assistant, its power becomes not just useful—but transformative. I write more about this paradox in AI on Trial. patrickbarone.substack.…