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What Legal AI Is Really Changing in Law Firm Economics

Legal commentary on artificial intelligence in law practice often focuses on speed: drafts that once took days can now be produced in hours, and research that once took hours can now be narrowed in minutes. Those gains are real, but they do not resolve the more important operational questions.

What Legal AI Is Really Changing in Law Firm Economics

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Legal commentary on artificial intelligence in law practice often focuses on speed: drafts that once took days can now be produced in hours, and research that once took hours can now be narrowed in minutes.

Those gains are real, but they do not resolve the more important operational questions.

Many firms still don't know whether faster tools are producing better realization or improved profitability....

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Legal commentary on artificial intelligence in law practice often focuses on speed: drafts that once took days can now be produced in hours, and research that once took hours can now be narrowed in minutes. Those gains are real, but they do not resolve the more important operational questions. Many firms still don't know whether faster tools are producing better realization or improved profitability....

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