  Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) that are
being applied to legal efforts have raised controversial questions about the
existent restrictions imposed on the practice-of-law. Generally, the legal
field has sought to define Authorized Practices of Law (APL) versus
Unauthorized Practices of Law (UPL), though the boundaries are at times
amorphous and some contend capricious and self-serving, rather than being
devised holistically for the benefit of society all told. A missing ingredient
in these arguments is the realization that impending legal profession
disruptions due to AI can be more robustly discerned by examining the matter
through the lens of a framework utilizing the autonomous levels of AI Legal
Reasoning (AILR). This paper explores a newly derived instrumental grid
depicting the key characteristics underlying APL and UPL as they apply to the
AILR autonomous levels and offers key insights for the furtherance of these
crucial practice-of-law debates.
