Congrats! 👏

I have never eaten bacon in my entire life and was only a resident of NYC for 11 months and I know that ain’t what it called 😂

And the crazy part is that is the part of the job that has become the hardest to make more efficient over the last 80 years (i.e. the least subject to automation)

(Can you tell I am finalizing my generative AI and attorney billing article draft this week)

Awesome!

Preheat before hand for as long as possible. I always have peel problems 😢 but when it works it SO works.

I think its a really good questions. Another way of framing it might be that in the age of generative AI a bigger group of people can play the role of "senior partners" (e.g. the decisionmakers) but it also means that succeeding as a senior partner may require a new or refined set of skills.

Totally--but then how would we classify them? As senior lawyers or junior. I guess it requires more precision on my part between senior in terms of experience v. senior in terms of hierarchy.

So you end up with a legal profession that is bi-modal (big firms and tiny firms). Not sure if thats where I'd bet but its certainly possible.

Of course another way to think about it which is an argument I plan to make is that if AI takes out some "junior lawyer" tasks then more people can be senior partners (aka more people can be solo and small-firm practitioners) which seems pretty consistent with what technology has done in past.

I haven't seen that argument -- the reason I think is if its replacing senior partners (instead of supporting them) then the implication is that we don't need (human) lawyers at all (maybe).

In this blog post I discuss a new article in which Kevin Tobia and I examine how widespread AI texts are in legal institutions, initial policy responses some have made, and the concerns all of this raises alongside opportunities: www.wilftownsend.net/p/when-compu...