Legal AI expert Sophia Snomi launches scholarly book on machine-assisted legal practice - Businessday NG
Legal AI expert Sophia Snomi releases her book “The Supervised Attorney,” examining AI’s role, liability, and ethics in legal practice.Summary
Sophia Snomi, founder of VerdictAI and former legal counsel at Chocolate City Group and Texas attorney, has launched the scholarly book “The Supervised Attorney: Professional Liability, Legal AI, and the Boundaries of Machine-Assisted Practice” through Lambert Academic Publishers. The book targets practicing attorneys, legal technologists, ethics scholars, regulators, and policymakers, offering a practical examination of AI’s role in law rather than a technical primer. It explores how AI processes legal text, where it succeeds and fails, professional responsibility under Model Rules, liability for AI-generated advice, and the implications of black‑box systems for reasoned adjudication. Drawing on her experience building VerdictAI, the book also details AI system design for high‑volume legal practices, including intake scoring, medical record analysis, and settlement support. Snomi emphasizes that while AI is now a present‑day tool in courtrooms and offices worldwide, lawyers must use it with the rigor and accountability the profession demands, and she compares AI governance approaches in the US, EU, and UK, advocating for stronger third‑party auditing.
(Source：Business News Nigeria)
