Over the weekend we heard from several more firms…
Experimenting with AI inside their operations.
Trying it out on small things.
One firm is testing an AI system that flags missing intake information before a case is accepted.
Another reviews deposition transcripts and highlights inconsistencies across witness statements.
A mid-size firm in the Midwest built an internal assistant.
Every morning it summarizes their litigation calendar…
And flags deadlines that moved the previous day.
None of these things sound particularly revolutionary.
But taken together…
They point to something interesting happening inside law firms right now.
The lawyers getting the most leverage out of AI aren’t trying to replace legal work.
They’re eliminating the small things that silently waste time.
Workflow bottlenecks that everyone complains about…
But no one ever fixes.
And once you start looking at a firm through that lens…
You begin to notice how many of those friction points exist.
Most firms don’t see them clearly…
Because they’ve been working around them for years.
But AI forces the issue.
Because when a process gets automated…
Every flaw in the workflow suddenly becomes obvious.
And when lawyers start fixing those workflows…
Something else happens.
The firm starts operating differently.
Cleaner files and faster decisions.
Less confusion between staff.
Five minutes saved here.
Ten minutes saved there.
Small changes…
That compound quickly across an entire firm.
We’ve been digging into how firms are doing this behind the scenes.
Not the weird brags and rage bait on LinkedIn…
But the operational experiments happening inside firms.
Some of what we’re seeing is pretty interesting.
Later this week we’re going to walk through one example.
A workflow some firms are using to digest hundreds of pages of documents in minutes.
It’s simple.
But the implications are bigger than most people realize.
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🔎 What Else We’re Seeing Behind The Scenes
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been tracking:
• Judges sanctioning AI misuse
• VC-backed firms moving faster than expected
• Hundreds of plaintiff firms admitting workflow gaps
• Associates using AI without clear supervision
• Intake systems that fall apart under automation
This is all relevant to operations.
There’s nothing theoretical here.
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