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.

$8 billion legal behemoth Harvey is getting into the startup investing game

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Harvey cofounders Winston Weinberg and Gabe Pereyra.

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AI legal giant Legora lands its first acquisition, and the great legal-tech rollup continues

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Max Junestrand

Legora

Investors fear AI will undercut LexisNexis. The company says it's driving growth.

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Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO of LexisNexis' global legal business, said the company's proprietary data "cannot be replicated."

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Docusign's former CEO took a risk jumping into an older corner of legal tech. The numbers suggest it's working.

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Anthropic's latest AI tool was seen by the legal software industry as a 'shot across the bow.' Here's what it means.

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei

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Get ready for legal tech's merger mania

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Harvey's CEO explains his early tactic to get customers: telling lawyers how bad their arguments were

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Harvey's CEO reveals an early tactic that helped him win customers for his legal AI startup.

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This consultant advised Big Law at McKinsey. Now Sequoia is backing his AI startup for in-house lawyers.

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