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AI contract tools are everywhere now, and the pitch is always the same: faster review, smarter redlines, better outcomes. Some of it is true. Most of it is oversold. The lawyers who are actually winning with these tools aren't the ones who adopted everything —...
For decades, the logic was simple: if your company had a serious legal problem, you hired a serious firm. That meant Cravath. It meant Skadden. It meant billing rates north of $1,500 an hour and associates billing for work partners would handle tomorrow. The prestige...
The paralegal who spends three hours summarizing a deposition transcript is already obsolete. So is the one who manually combs through 40,000 documents in discovery, flags contract renewal dates by hand, or builds a timeline from scratch by reading case files sequentially. These were real,...
The funding numbers look great on a slide deck. The reality of building inside them is considerably messier.
The Cravath system has governed American legal practice for over a century. You join as an associate, bill extraordinary hours, survive a brutal tournament, and — if you are among the fortunate few — make partner. The partnership itself operates as a profit-sharing collective, distributing...
Most law firm AI policies I've reviewed fall into one of two categories: a three-paragraph memo that says "use AI carefully," or a 40-page document that nobody reads past the table of contents. Neither protects your clients, your attorneys, or your firm. What follows is...
Enterprise legal departments have never had more technology to choose from — and have never been worse at choosing it. The average Fortune 500 legal ops team now manages between 12 and 18 distinct software platforms, according to the 2025 Thomson Reuters Legal Tracker Benchmark...
The gap in coverage has been glaring long enough. We've run exhaustive analysis on e-discovery platforms, contract lifecycle management, and AI-assisted document review, but virtually nothing on what happens when a litigator actually has to perform — in a hearing, before a jury, in a...
The legal AI funding wave didn't crest — it bifurcated. On one side, you have a cluster of well-capitalized companies building horizontally across the legal stack, chasing law firm and in-house enterprise deals worth seven figures annually. On the other, a scrappier cohort is going...