Goldberg Segalla partner Frank Ramos authored an intriguing article – “The AI Paradox: How the Biggest Critics of AI Are Best Poised to Use It” – which was published by the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel.

“What I perceive to be a paradox in the use of AI by lawyers is that our most experienced lawyers, some of whom express the most hesitation when using AI, are ironically the best situated to use it,” Frank begins.

As a nationally recognized legal advisor and litigator, Frank has been defending clients in civil litigation for more than 26 years, and he believes that experience serves as a prism to knowledgeably accept or reject each portion of AI’s output – something a less seasoned attorney may not have the requisite skills to do effectively.

“My experience enables me to make these distinctions,” he says. “If you have experience with a given task, you can use AI to augment your approach to that task, and your experience will filter out the portions of the output that are not helpful, useful, or productive.”

When it comes to firms adopting AI, Frank proposes starting with the more experienced attorneys – teach them how to use AI productively and ethically so that it creates a training loop in which they educate junior attorneys on best practices for incorporating AI into their practice.

“The goal of AI usage is not only to confirm that the output is accurate when it comes to legal or factual research,” he suggests, “but also to appreciate, when using AI to brainstorm, whether the output is helpful and, just as importantly, discard what is useless, or worse, what undermines your case.”

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE: “The AI Paradox: How the Biggest Critics of AI Are Best Poised to Use It,” FDCC, June 2025

MORE ABOUT GOLDBERG SEGALLA’S FRANK RAMOS:

A nationally recognized legal advisor and litigator, Frank has been defending clients in civil litigation for more than 26 years, focusing his practice on retail, product liability, premises liability, trucking, insurance, and commercial disputes. A seasoned litigator, he has taken numerous trials and arbitrations to verdict or award.

Frank uses his extensive litigation experience to provide counsel, defense, and strategic guidance to retailers, developers, restaurants, fitness chains, hotels, resorts and other hospitality businesses. His representation has included negligent security, slip/trip and falls, catastrophic personal injury, trucking and motor vehicle accidents, employment and construction claims, as well as a variety of commercial disputes ranging from intellectual property and breach of contract to bad faith, franchise agreements, and landlord-tenant issues.