The billable hour encourages lawyers to prioritize productivity over self-awareness, often leading to stress, burnout, and disconnection from their bodies. Instead of abandoning it, lawyers can ...

First-years at Ropes & Gray can now spend a fifth of their required billable hours exploring AI Plaintiffs' firm wins lead counsel bid after fight over press releases Objectors miss chance to ...

Most lawyers can skillfully handle stress. After all, we managed to make it through law school, bar exams, and our grueling early years of practice. We’re also used to high-pressure situations like ...

Billable hours remain the economic engine of many law firms, particularly those involved in litigation. In firms that operate on a billable-hour model, profitability depends on competent, ...

Who can argue with better, quicker outcomes as artificial intelligence becomes more reliable? The demise of billable hours will lead to healthier lives for attorneys (“It May Be Time’s Up for the ...

For independent lawyers and small offices without dedicated billing staff, that invisible friction translates directly into ...

If you’ve ever hired a lawyer, you know the pain of the billable hour. You get the invoice, and it’s filled with charges like “0.1 hours to read an email” or “0.3 hours for a phone call.” I know this ...

Jeff Bleich, now Anthropic's general counsel, thinks artificial intelligence will usher in the death of the billable hour business model for law firms.John Salangsang/Variety via Getty Images The ...

There is growing agreement across the legal industry that artificial intelligence may mark the end of the billable hour. When intelligent systems can complete discrete legal tasks faster, more ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LegalZoom.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: LZ), America’s #1 online legal services company, today announced LegalZoom’s attorney-services integration directly into the Claude ...

Rita Gunther McGrath (@rgmcgrath) is an academic director in executive education at Columbia Business School and author of “Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They ...