Artificial intelligence is now part of everyday legal work. For sports lawyers, it can help summarize documents, extract clauses, produce first drafts, compare versions, translate, prepare chronologies and identify inconsistencies. Its value lies in speed, structure and disciplined verification. The value of counsel lies elsewhere: case theory, judgment, strategy, credibility, tactical restraint and professional responsibility. Used without control, AI can invent authorities, miss factual nuance, overlook procedural consequences or create confidentiality and professional-risk issues. The sound approach is to use AI as a supervised assistant in an approved environment, grounded in source documents and followed by human verification before anything is filed, sent or relied upon