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There are 87 posts. These are the ones I would hand someone first, grouped by the argument they belong to rather than by date.
The thesis 3 posts
If you read three things, read these. The argument the rest of the writing builds on.
The economics 4 posts
Why the billable hour decides what gets adopted, and what happens to the partnership when it stops.
- The 11 Big Law sacred cows AI slaughters:
- A paper written by a Yale Law School professor in 2019 tells us how AI will kill law firms.
- Everyone keeps asking whether outside investors can “own” a law firm.
- Law firms spent 2.4% of revenue on technology in 2024 but still FAR less than their knowledge industry peers.
Building it, not buying it 5 posts
The case for owning the capability inside the firm rather than renting it from a vendor.
- I talk a lot about the skill layer being THE most important asset and why the firm must own where it lives.
- The biggest legal AI risk isn’t vendor selection.
- I spent the last several weeks researching what objectives Big Law leaders say they are prioritizing as part of their AI transformation and these are the 9 that show up most.
- Writing an AI policy is the easiest part of AI governance.
- Your legal AI is flying partially blind.
Reading the market 5 posts
What the valuations, funding rounds and vendor moves actually tell you.
- Airtable just sold for 2.7x revenue.
- Harvey is the fastest growing legal tech company in history.
- Anthropic launched a legal plugin for Claude, and $285 billion in market value disappeared in 48 hours.
- Harvey pays its legal engineers up to $320K.
- Legal AI vendors are hoovering up a lot of the legal engineering/innovation talent from law firms and then selling their time back to them at 4-5x.
Who actually does the work 5 posts
The people AI adoption runs through, and why it stalls when nobody has a mandate.
- The most important job in the AI-era law firm might be one that a third of firms have never written down.
- Lawyers don't resist change because they're stubborn.
- In 2011, Harvard's Michael Norton ran a study where people paid 63% more for furniture they assembled themselves.
- Ford's General Counsel just told law firms they're losing the AI race...to their own clients.
- Only 7% of legal tech jobs are pure AI roles.