CAOC Forum - September/October 2026

Technology’s Effect on Advocacy staff, investing in their success, and taking a vested interest as they do their part in the collective fight for justice. Building a strong roster of law firm teammates provides the invaluable opportunity to seek justice on a larger scale.

help you retain even more righteous cases, and elevate the reputation of your firm. Each human in your firm provides another touch-point to the community. The embedded network of each individual creates a new and valuable resource for the firm. Employees maintain their own circles of friends, family, former colleagues, teammates, and other community members who may eventually find themselves in need of representation or know someone else who does.

The AI Question Is an Access-To-Justice Question

In an era when access to justice is constantly under attack, it is now more important than ever for us to cling to our humanity like civil justice depends on it. Because it does. The minute we hand over control to the robots is the moment we hand over our power— our own power as advocates, and by extension, that of California consumers and employees.

The Value to Society

In addition to providing benefits to the firm, hiring human team members also adds value to society as a whole. We have all had legal mentors who have been instrumental in our careers or practice. The law firm is also a place where we can pay it forward to the next generation by training up rising attorneys and legal

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FORUM September/October 2026

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