Anthropic's top lawyer says AI will kill the legal profession's dreaded billable hour

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Jeff Bleich, now Anthropic's general counsel, thinks artificial intelligence will usher in the death of the billable hour business model for law firms.

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Big Law's outlaw has something to prove

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Max Junestrand
Max Junestrand.

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Silicon Valley loves a rivalry, and right now one of its most closely watched showdowns is unfolding in an unlikely arena: corporate law.

I used ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity to research a gnarly NYC rent situation. Here's what I learned.

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Nolita is an upscale neighborhood in NYC brimming with boutiques and restaurants.
Nolita is an upscale neighborhood in NYC brimming with boutiques and restaurants.

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'Task' versus 'purpose': Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang explains why AI won't kill jobs.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

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2 lawyers are engaged in a bizarre power struggle over Nicolás Maduro

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Venezuela's captured President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores attend their arraignment with defense lawyers Barry Pollack and Mark Donnelly to face U.S.

ChatGPT is the new WebMD

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Three hands reaching up: a doctor's with a stethoscope, a judge's with a gavel, and a hand holding a ChatGPT message bubble.

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Venture funds don't often make their top lawyer a partner. Menlo Ventures just did.

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Deborah Carrillo.

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I left my dream job as a trial attorney and pivoted into AI at age 40. It showed me the power of leaving my comfort zone.

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Aurora Bryant
Aurora Bryant pivoted from working as a trial attorney to working in legal AI solutions.

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Steve Bannon discussed using an obscure legal tactic to join Jeffrey Epstein's legal team

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Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon were in constant communication about a media project they were working on together in the months before the pedophile's death.

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How can lawyers stop AI's hallucinations? More AI, of course.

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It's hard to stop a curious legal associate from pasting a draft into a free, browser-based chatbot like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.

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