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I think that Professor Susskind may be confusing expert systems which use complex algorithms to emulate human behaviour with a genuine artificial intelligence; now referred to as general artificial intelligence (GAI).
GAI is not even on the horizon yet due to the lack of a functioning model for human consciousness.
If he is suggesting that expert systems will be developed and will involve the provision of legal advice and legal systems (by which I take him to mean transactional work and regulatory and governance advice) then I agree with him.
My problem with the good professor is that his message is interpreted by policy makers as justifying decisions that effectively remove access to lawyers, but without first checking that these AI legal services do actually exist and are accessible to ordinary people. If they are not then Professor Susskind may be the Pied Piper who carries the next generation of lawyers into a captivity of irrelevance.