Welcome to Season 14, Episode 10 of Notes to My (Legal) Self®, the in-house counsel podcast exploring AI, legal judgment, and the future of the legal profession.
Host Olga V. Mack talks with Dharshi Harindra, Assistant General Counsel for APAC at FTI Consulting, live from Singapore. Drawing on 20 years across big law, TMT, and data privacy in the UK, Australia, Dubai, and Singapore, Dharshi challenges the popular claim that ""AI won't replace lawyers, but lawyers who use AI will."" Her view: AI is a mirror, and without strong human judgment it only produces confident but risky answers faster.
This general counsel podcast conversation is for in-house lawyers, legal leaders, and anyone navigating legal tech and AI adoption.
In this episode, you'll learn:
- Why human judgment, not technical fluency, will set lawyers apart
- Which traditional lawyer labels are weakening and what is replacing them
- How AI can amplify bias, and why lawyers are positioned to correct it
- A practical framework for legal judgment: what matters, what doesn't, what happens next, and who owns the consequences
- How early-career lawyers can build judgment without years of ""learning by osmosis""
- Why legal tech needs subject matter experts at the table
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
01:06 Meet Dharshi: a global legal career from London to Singapore
03:48 Is ""lawyers who use AI will replace lawyers"" the right framing?
07:10 The lawyer labels that are weakening
11:35 How AI mirrors and amplifies bias
15:21 What legal judgment looks like in practice
21:29 Technically right vs. strategically wise
25:17 Why lawyers should document how they think
31:24 Skills early-career lawyers need now
35:13 Pairing legal tech with subject matter expertise
39:25 Redefining the exceptional lawyer
41:33 The profession five years from now
44:35 Final takeaway
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