Sharp, opinionated commentary on the ideas, arguments, and absurdities shaping the future of the legal profession. Not neutral. Not balanced. Just honest.
When GPT-4 passed the bar exam in 2023, the legal press treated it as a watershed moment. Two years on, it looks more like a parlour trick. The real disruption is happening somewhere far less dramatic — and far more consequential.
Every legal tech founder positions their product against the billable hour as if it were a moral failing rather than a business model. But the billable hour solved a real problem. What replaces it needs to solve an equally real one.
It appears in every legal tech pitch deck, every bar association report, every government consultation. It has become a kind of incantation — repeated so often it now functions as a placeholder for actual thinking.
The merger and acquisition activity in legal technology has accelerated dramatically since 2024. The firms writing the cheques are not startups. They are the same institutions the startups were supposed to disrupt.
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