This is an English summary of my conversation with Lucienne van der Geld, managing director of Netwerk Notarissen and lecturer in notarial law at Radboud University.
Lucienne occupies a unique position in the debate on legal AI. She strongly believes in the importance of human judgement, empathy, and independence in the legal profession. At the same time, she is one of the driving forces behind AI adoption within the notarial sector.
I went into this conversation convinced that AI would eventually replace a large part of the work notaries do. By the end of our conversation, I thought differently.
We discuss why better AI does not automatically lead to less work. Lucienne explains why prompt engineering is unlikely to become a skill every legal professional needs to master, why AI will increasingly disappear into the software professionals already use every day, and why the growing stream of AI generated information may become one of the biggest challenges facing the notarial profession.
Naturally, we also discuss the economic impact of AI on the notarial profession. Will AI lead to lower prices? Will value based pricing become the new standard? Or will clients continue to pay by the hour for something technology cannot provide?
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