We’re excited to share that Alex Su has been named President of Latitude! Since joining Latitude in 2024, Alex has played an important role in a period of significant growth for our team. Read more: latitudelegal.com/resources/… #FlexibleLegalTalent #LegalLeadership

I work at an AI-native law firm and I'm extremely bullish on them. But I also think the entire category is going to disappear.

NEW: Kirkland & Ellis will stop sharing its financial figures with the legal industry’s flagship ranking of law firm profits and revenues, concluding it is no longer “appropriate or necessary” to disclose results. With @kayewiggins & @journosooz

New legal startup Teddy AI raised $60 million today. Many basic details about the business, including the specific area of law it operates in and the identities of key executives, remain confidential. law360.com/pulse/legal-tech/…

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OpenAI is looking for a bigger foothold in legal. A new partnership offers a clue as to how it plans to get there: not just by selling models and software, but by sending people to help customers actually use them. Telon, a London startup, is one of the companies giving it boots on the ground. Rather than sell software, Telon hires and trains "legal engineers" — mostly former lawyers who embed inside law firms and corporate legal teams to help them get more out of the tech they already buy. The model is a bit like forward-deployed engineering-as-a-service. @BusinessInsider’s @meliarobin businessinsider.com/telon-op…

Every journalist asks me a version of the same question. Will AI mean fewer lawyers? Our customers are hiring more of them. Put complexity of the task on one axis and volume on the other. Low-complexity, high-volume work moves to agents, and that pushes the pyramid up. More of the hard work gets done, because someone finally has the capacity to do it. Then there is demand. When something gets faster and better, the world asks for more of it. Jevons noticed it in 1865. Better steam engines made Britain burn far more coal. That was coal, not law, but the mechanism is the same. More M&A, more disputes, more regulatory work, more companies being started. The pie is growing. An independent study interviewed 30 firms across the AmLaw 200, Magic Circle and top international firms. 42% said Legora has helped them win new work, directly or indirectly. 45% said the same about expanding relationships with clients they already had. 39% have taken on matters that would previously have needed more people, more time, or a no. One firm in that study went through a corporate client's entire technology supply chain, every contract, to work out what they were paying and where. A human team would have needed weeks and the cost would have killed the project before it started. With Legora it took four to five days. Their own summary: it was work that we would not have done in the past. The work was not economical before, so nobody did it and nobody billed for it. Now it gets done, and someone has to do it.