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@damienriehl @BLaw Yes, I agree. The big difference is that legal departments can more readily pull work inhouse.

@ronfriedmann @BLaw With ALSPs and LPOs: - Firms → ALSP / LPO - Substantive work = ↓ - Non-Lawyer Competitors With AI: - Law Depts do work themselves - Substantive work = ↑ - Clients = Competitors If "this time it's different," maybe b/c competitive landscape is fundamentally different? 🤷

AI-Native Firms Are Luring Frustrated Lawyers Away From Big Law @BLaw news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-p… Many articles on AI native law firms. This was also true in the early days of #ALSP, then #LPO. Will the hype this time come true? It did not for LPO.

In-house legal teams struggle to demonstrate ROI on their AI investments - @Axiom_Law report @GlobalLegalPost globallegalpost.com/news/in-house-… Many recent surveys say in-house legal is ahead of Big Law. That was not my experience in 5 yrs advising them at Gartner. This one feels right.

See Jae's comments on LinkedIn as well linkedin.com/posts/jaesunum…

Now partnering: @harvey + Lumio It's interesting because it bring the economics of #BigLaw by leading expert @jaesunum directly into widely used AI. - I hear fewer asking about AI ROI; it's become embedded. Not, it's figuring out impact on work + price harvey.ai/blog/harvey-an…

AI use at Dutch law firms reduces demand for routine legal services @NL_Times nltimes.nl/2026/07/09/ai-… I would have expected this and great to see confirmation. - Q: Will this trend negatively affect #ALSP #LPO?

"Microsoft…said it had already found a promising model: cross-training its entry-level lawyers in different parts of the organization and equipping them with A.I. skills in order for them to be repositioned as technology evolves." nytimes.com/2026/06/25/bus…

Scale matters now in Big Law. It didn't used to. Join the conversation. linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

IBM debuts world’s first sub-1 nanometer chip technology @FastCompany fastcompany.com/91564027/ibm-d… Atomic-level engineering. I love a quote here: “We have entered a domain in semiconductor manufacturing [that] works between magic and physics,”

Exclusive: HSF Kramer develops proprietary AI platform with Acora and Microsoft @LITI_News legaltechnology.com/exclusive-hsf-… Showing again that AI in Big Law is all about the data and governance

A Big Law CEO and Top GC Agree: AI Is Forcing a New Firm Model news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-p… by @RoyWStrom @BLaw In the AI era, it's no surprise. Post the GFC in 2008, it became apparent that Big Law strategy matters, Same for AI - it will separate large law firm winners + losers

The impact of AI on the future of Big Law and corporate legal departments. @GulfLTC interviews me (via YouTube). youtube.com/watch?v=hstqV1…

BARBRI acquires Lega: Interview with co-CEO Lucie Allen Congrats @christianllang legaltechnology.com/barbri-acquire…

How Hallucinatory A.I. Helps Science Dream Up Big Breakthroughs nytimes.com/2024/12/23/sci… via @NYTimes

I've set up over at @bluesky and will post more there than here, at least short term as I experiment. I hope it brings us back to what Twitter was a few years ago I'm at bsky.app/profile/ronfri…

This company wants to be your law firm and legal AI tech provider in one @LegalDive legaldive.com/news/this-comp… Explains Avantia Law legal services with GenAI #LLM Interesting read #NewLaw or #ALSP 2.0 ?

UI range for GenAI per ⁦@NicoleBradick⁩

At legal GenAI conference, session on agentic AI: Will agents become like Lotus Notes, with 5 apps for every workflow, ie, reinventing wheel. Great question.

Generative AI and the New Era of Preventive Lawyering @stephenembryjd techlawcrossroads.com/2024/11/genera… Glad to see another voice discussing #DoLessLaw

@jborstein @RoyWStrom Even dinners, disruption in #BigLaw has been an evergreen topic for much of this century. My Q: when folks talk about it, are they forecasting, or just wishing it?

@ronfriedmann @RoyWStrom Shocker: AI didn’t “eat their lunch” yet. Every business I’ve been in was about to “eat law firms lunches,” yet we had lunch and they had lunch. Amazing. It’s almost as if innovation creates more lunches.

Law Firm Revenue Soars 12% as Lawyers Get Back to Being Busy @RoyWStrom news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-p… "Top lines at the 50 largest law firms grew 14%" thru Q3 per Citi Demand up 3.2% Tech spending up (not quantified)