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Legal Thought Leadership

White & Case's Worldwide AI Adoption is a Turning Point When a firm the size and stature of White & Case  decides to deploy legal AI across its entire global office network, this is not a pilot. It is not innovation theater. And it is definitely not a “let’s see how this goes” experiment buried inside one practice group. It is a line in the sand. White & Case is rolling out Legora , a legal AI platform designed to support research, drafting, document review, and matter analys

My prediction is straightforward: Twenty five to thirty percent of the jobs people will hold five years from now, do not even exist today.    I prognosticated the perpetuation of AI before it was scaring the luddites, and well before it was auto completing anyone’s emails. I wrote about it crushing lawyers’ billable hours in Attorney at Law Magazine more than two years before ChatGPT arrived on the scene. When ChatGPT finally launched, my response was not awe or alarm. It wa

The legal MSO does not invent the outsourcing of business functions. It simply consolidates it.   Law firms have been outsourcing non-legal functions for decades. Tech was first. Then payroll. Then accounting. Then marketing. Then HR. Then intake. Then SEO. Then cybersecurity. Then some attorney figured out that hiring a fractional CFO would make sense. You can see where I’m going with this.And yet, when all of that gets organized into a single operating platform, some attorn

McDermott Will & Schulte just publicly announced  that they are exploring outside investment through an MSO platform. Yes, one of the BlueBloods of BigLaw has now publicly stated “Maybe a century old business model wherein people who aren’t trained to to handle the new, complex world of HR, Tech and other factors that didn't even exist when the profession started… could be improved upon!” Wow! Who could have seen THAT coming!!! Oh wait. I have been scrying my crystal ball and

By Frederick L. Shelton In 2020, the legal industry was dragged kicking, screaming, and clutching its billable-hour sheets - into the twenty-first century. Forced by circumstance, even the most rigid AmLaw firms discovered that remote work was not only possible, but profitable. Productivity increased, associates were happier, and firms quietly pocketed millions in saved overhead.   So naturally, the Boomers on the Executive Committee are going to eschew innovation and engage

For years, law schools warned students not to touch AI. That stance is shifting. The University of Michigan and the University of Miami...