Lawyers' billed hours constitute the inventory of law firms and the foundation of their profits. Legally trained AI will decimate those hours. What happens then?| jordanfurlong.substack.com
We spent decades training lawyers to be knowledge specialists. Now AI is poised to take on that role. But upgrading to "wise counsel" won't be as easy as it sounds.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
Generative AI will take over legal task performance and catalyze an identity crisis for the legal profession — unless lawyers instead turn this into an opportunity to redefine their purpose and value.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
We all know lawyers’ commercial role, to be professional guides for human affairs. But we also need lawyers to bring the law’s guarantees to life for people and in society. And we need it right now.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
Integrating Generative AI into law firms will make the firms more efficient and their lawyers more creative. It will also completely change those firms' productivity, profitability, and purpose.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
As artificial assistants become ubiquitous in law firms, lawyers with clear legal minds who can methodically analyze problems and point the AI towards practical solutions will be essential.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
Will Generative AI destroy law firms? Only if lawyers are too fixed in their ways to see the possibilities that lie beyond who we've always been and what we've always done.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
The false dichotomy of "work that matters" and "work that doesn't" wreaks havoc on law firms' priorities and lawyers' morale. Here's how to escape it.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
Gen AI will bring an end to the era when lawyers' value hinged on performing billable work. Grab the coming opportunity to re-prioritize your daily activities and redefine your professional purpose.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
We spent decades training lawyers to be knowledge specialists. Now AI is poised to take on that role. But upgrading to "wise counsel" won't be as easy as it sounds.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
The more you study how Generative AI works, the more parallels emerge with how lawyers think — and that has implications. With Gen AI getting better every day, we need to get our act together, fast.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
Generative AI doesn't have to cause mass unemployment or mass overwork in the legal profession. We can use it to free lawyers from task performance and enter a new era of client-centred productivity.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
Gen AI is climbing the "legal skills ladder" with alarming speed. What if lawyers responded with comprehensive “legal-plus” oversight of their clients’ affairs? Welcome to Peace Of Mind As A Service.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
When things stop making sense, people look to lawyers for explanations and guidance. But what happens when we have no good answers to give them? A short guide for lawyers trying to navigate the storm.| Jordan Furlong
In a chaotic world, you can't sit back waiting for the next bombshell to drop. You need to anticipate, analyze, and address critical new developments — before they affect your firm and its clients.| Jordan Furlong
We can't dismiss extreme possibilities anymore, in either the geopolitical or the legal worlds. We need to recognize radical change and prepare new strategies for exceptional times.| Jordan Furlong
Law firms still measure key aspects of their business — productivity, pricing, and growth — in "lawyer terms." Here are superior metrics that calculate success in real-world outcomes and experiences.| Jordan Furlong
We're running out of time to identify the functions and design the competencies of the post-AI legal profession. Here's my latest "Future Lawyer Starter Kit." Tell me what you think.| Jordan Furlong
Civil justice systems aren't serving the public interest. It's time to break new ground and chart paths towards fast and fair dispute resolution that will meet people's actual needs.| Jordan Furlong
A new legal market will create a new type of lawyer: Specialized, flexible, customized, fractional, home-based and online, exclusive, balanced and focused. This could be your future legal career.| Jordan Furlong
The false dichotomy of "work that matters" and "work that doesn't" wreaks havoc on law firms' priorities and lawyers' morale. Here's how to escape it.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
By putting business ahead of the rule of law when faced with assaults on their independence, many large US law firms have tarnished their reputations. Tomorrow's lawyers could make them pay the price.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
Failure is an unavoidable reality for lawyers — but we run from it all the same, afraid to face our imperfections, unable to forgive our errors. We need to teach new lawyers how to fail and survive.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
In all this chaos, stop and remember: The legal profession has made extraordinary gains in just a few short years. Change for the better in law is here, and it's real. You can take us even farther.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
If we agree people shouldn't use ChatGPT for legal issues, what should they use instead? The public deserves a better answer than "Go without." Here's how lawyers can provide one.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
Speak out against injustice and corruption. Fight for universal legal access. Restore people's lost faith that law and government can serve them. The battle for the Rule of Law starts now.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
Generative AI is going to free up hundreds of hours of lawyers' time, whether the lawyers like it or not. How should they use this gift? By reinvesting those hours in these four types of development.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
Some people think Large Language Models will transform the practice of law. I think it's bigger than that.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
Generational differences are a fact of law firm life, but they don't have to be a source of tension. Reframe and restructure your approach to demographic diversity and make it a competitive strength.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
As we enter the Age of Accessible Law, a wave of new demand is coming our way — but AI will meet most of the surge. What will be left for lawyers? Just the most valuable and irreplaceable role in law.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
Legally trained generative AI will "free up" lawyers by taking away millions of hours of work. The profession's future depends on what comes after that.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
The ability to initiate, grow, and maintain professional business relationships is absolutely critical to your future legal career. Here's why these skills matter and how to start developing them.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
Our legal education and licensing systems produce one kind of lawyer. The legal market of the near future will need another kind. If we can't close this gap fast, we'll have a very serious problem.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
Generative AI is going to wreck the traditional methods by which new lawyers learn the ropes. What can we do? Forecast lawyers' future roles and reverse-engineer their development.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
The slow collapse of first-year hiring at law firms will reveal all the defects in our lawyer licensing system. If we want there to be a legal profession in 2050, we need to act now.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
Legal regulators have failed to strike the right balance between accessibility and quality in legal services. It's just possible that Gen AI could open the door to an entirely new solution.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
These are the three essential roles lawyers will play in the post-AI era. We need to start preparing legal education, lawyer licensing, and law practices to adapt.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
Integrating Generative AI into law firms will make the firms more efficient and their lawyers more creative. It will also completely change those firms' productivity, profitability, and purpose.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
Generational differences play a part, but the crisis of disengaged associates in law firms is really about whether a firm has a meaningful value proposition that can earn (young) lawyers' commitment.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
As artificial assistants become ubiquitous in law firms, lawyers with clear legal minds who can methodically analyze problems and point the AI towards practical solutions will be essential.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
For decades, the legal profession has outsourced to law firms the early-years development of its newest members. Law firms, tiring of the deal, are in a position to demand an entirely new arrangement.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
The traditional legal workplace is passing away. The law office of the future will put people at the center of its purpose and design. Here's what that'll look like.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
As technical legal work falls into the vortex of generative AI, we need to redesign lawyer formation to engage and develop the humanity of legal professionals.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
Several American states are rewriting the rules of lawyer licensure and bringing the US into line with a key element of lawyer formation worldwide: supervised practice.| jordanfurlong.substack.com