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Scale armies are dead in the water. AI is already obliterating the high-leverage model. We are a million miles from that, but even we have started recruiting less, at the junior levels, support, everywhere.
— An unnamed Biglaw partner, in comments given to The Global Lawyer, concerning how his firm is using the rise of artificial intelligence to its advantage. Two other partners also suggested that their firms were looking at ways to “get smaller” in terms of lawyer headcount at both the associate and partner level.
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