- law dawg
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Clio just released its 2026 Legal Trends Report. Unsurprisingly, one of the key points is “AI-adopting firms are recording higher utilization, collection rates, and revenue per responsible lawyer compared with non-adopters.” Just two years ago, their report was pointing out that 48% of law firms can’t be reached by phone and now they’re telling us almost everyone has AI. We thought we throw that topic out for discussion today given how quickly AI has come to the forefront of the legal profession. Is your frim using AI on a regular basis? Do you have a policy on how you use it or is it still the Wild West? What are you using it for? And to tie it into that stat about firms being unreachable, do you use AI in your answering system now? Would you ever? Do you even leave voicemails anymore? Does anyone get on the phone or is everything done by email and text? What aspect of your practice has most dramatically changed with the onset of AI? What would you like to see it change next?
AI is an arms race to nowhere in the legal field. It hasn’t made anything more efficient. What would have been a minor discovery issue with a phone call and short email is an exchange of multiple 10 page letters now.
I think that criticism says more about how someone (you) is using AI than about the technology itself.
I use AI to speed up certain things that would take a human long to do, but i always fact check and review the work for accuracy before submitting anything. it has saved me a couple hours here and there and im fine with that. i still like to actually work.
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AI’m walking here!
AI has completely transformed my practice. As an AV-rated, Preeminent family law attorney and, quite frankly, the best attorney in Nevada, I have embraced AI as a force multiplier that allows me to operate at a level of efficiency and precision that would have been difficult to imagine just a few years ago.