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Alex Spiro says AI could push legal cases toward settlement or trial
Alex Spiro, a New York partner at law firm Quinn Emanuel and Elon Musk’s go-to lawyer, says artificial intelligence could change how legal cases move forward.
Speaking on a tech talk show, he said AI tools could help lawyers analyze cases and reach decisions faster.
Quicker analysis could help lawyers decide which cases to settle and which to take to trial.
Spiro said this could reduce costly litigation that drags on between those two outcomes.
He also suggested that more cases might go to trial if lawyers can better identify which ones are worth fighting.
Spiro said AI would not change how he presents arguments to juries, but it could help legal teams get him information faster.
He did not say when or how widely these changes might happen.
Alex Spiro said artificial intelligence could push legal cases toward quicker settlements or full trials.
The New York-based partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan said AI could help lawyers assess cases faster.
He said this could reduce costly litigation that sits between settlement and trial.
Spiro said AI might lead to more trials by helping lawyers identify which cases are worth fighting.
He said the technology would not change how he presents cases to juries.
- Who
- Alex Spiro, a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan.
- What
- He said AI could help lawyers assess cases faster and push them toward settlement or trial.
- When
- Thursday, during an appearance on TBPN. The article was published on November 6, 2026.
- Where
- On the tech talk show TBPN; Spiro is based in the firm's New York office.
- Why
- AI tools could help lawyers get to the facts and analyze cases more quickly.
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- Name
- Alex Spiro
- Firm
- Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
- Office
- New York
- Appearance
- TBPN
- Publication date
- November 6, 2026
What people are saying
I think AI will eliminate a layer of a lot of things, including my day job.
Cases will settle quickly or go to trial, and there won't be as much in-between litigation that is pointless and sort of ebbing between the two.
Maybe there are more trials, frankly, because people just say, 'Okay we just did an analysis of these 10 cases. These nine should settle. This one shouldn't. We're going all the way,'
Jurors are not changing based on AI.