The Legal AI Profession Is Ready for AI — Just Not the AI That’s Coming

Trip report from the AI for Legal Reasoning and Adjudication Conference, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, April 2, 2026 Source: http://mywebcache.com/photos/ [ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ ] The first Thursday in April, I spent the day at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law for a conference on AI in legal reasoning and adjudication organized by Prof. Dan Linna and his team where I also participated in the afternoon panel on AI capabilities and what courts should do to prepare. The room was impressive: federal judges, appellate court justices, law and computer science pro