Mike Burshteyn

There's not a single law firm I use that I would stay with if a key lawyer working on my stuff left. I don't think I'm all that unique among my peers. Law firms better figure that out.

Seems like many firms may eventually move to a Wachtell-like partner:associate ratio (less than 2:1). Even with AI support, rainmaking partners will still need junior level lawyers to manage the legal workflow, but maybe fewer than in the current model. This may actually encourage even more lateral movement among rainmakers, at least until there is a new equilibrium. Fare-Weil to biglaw's golden age.

There are three ways a lawyer reacts the first time Claude gives a wrong answer. One ignores it and files anyway. One panics and bans AI from the file entirely. One asks why it was wrong, learns the gap, and keeps using the tool smarter than before. Only the third camp is actually getting better at this whole "AI thing." The other two just found two different ways to stay stuck.

the next set of startups that will grow rapidly, with margin despite not being “tech companies” are cyber incident response companies

Will is correct. Lawyers are only just scratching the surface of what’s possible. Most are using it as a better search tool. But we know so much more is possible if we use vibe coding as our guide. And I can see just how much more there is to go from the tools that we are building internally. xitter.cf/willchen500/status/210…

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Steve Kerr says Roger Federer taught his Warriors team the secret to sustained success wasn’t outworking everyone, it was building a life around your craft you never want to escape from “I’ll tell you a great story about Roger Federer. We were playing in China with the Warriors in 2017. Roger was in Shanghai for the Masters tournament, so we invited him to come speak to the team.” “Draymond Green asked him, ‘How do you sustain success? How have you managed to win majors 20 years after you first won one?’ Everyone was expecting him to say, ‘I work harder than everybody,’ the will, all the clichés.” “Roger Federer says, ‘I get up every morning and I make breakfast for my kids. Then I take them to school and drop them off. Then I go practice tennis for about two hours, and I’ve figured out a really good routine where I don’t destroy my body, but I can get all the work in I need.” “‘Then I go have lunch with my wife. In the evening, we cook dinner together. The kids are all home from school. We ask them about school. There’s so much joy in the house. We put them to bed, and then I put my head on the pillow and go, “Man, that was just a great day.” And I’ve been doing that for 20 years.’” “And it was like, yes. That’s it. That’s the formula. That’s what leads to sustained success. He loves tennis. He loves his family. He loves life. It’s not outworking everybody and banging your head against the wall, ‘I’m going to be better than everybody.’ It’s allowing your natural talent to shine through with a work ethic, with a great family life, with perspective, with peace, with mindfulness.” “It’s perspective. It’s joy. It’s passion. It’s mindfulness. It’s an awareness that we are truly lucky. To get the most out of ourselves, it’s our daily rituals and experiences and love and joy.”

hey Astra, how fast are you really at using a computer?

This is the difficulty faced by non-practicing software engineers building legal AI.