How Many Biglaw Associates Will Lose Their Jobs Because Of AI?

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Should you’re capable of remove a lot of the routine work, and a Massive Legislation lawyer is now referred to as upon for the extra fascinating advisory work, I can envisage we’ll see a reshaping of the leverage mannequin, even when the scale of regulation companies stays just like the place it’s now.

— Gretta Rusanow, managing director and head of advisory companies at Citi Personal Financial institution Legislation Agency Group, in feedback given to Bloomberg Legislation on the rise of generative AI and the way it will change regulation agency leverage. As AI takes on extra primary duties, she stated, the variety of entry-level attorneys will possible lower whereas the variety of extra senior attorneys will enhance, in order that they’ll supply “strategic recommendation.”

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