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Dec. 22, 2025

How legal professionals are using AI with Benjamin Softness, partner, King & Spalding LLP

Benjamin Softness is a litigator and former Silicon Valley in-house counsel focused on complex litigation, appellate and critical-issue advocacy, and regulatory investigations. He joined King & Spalding from Google, where he helped design and execute the company's AI regulatory strategy. 

How legal professionals are using AI with Benjamin Softness, partner, King & Spalding LLP

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the practice of law, from legal research and document review to case strategy and client communications. But how are California's legal professionals actually using these tools in their daily work? In this series, the Daily Journal speaks with judges, attorneys, mediators, support staff, academics and other legal practitioners about their experiences with AI -- exploring what's working, what concerns them, and how they're navi...

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