{"id":141142,"date":"2026-01-07T09:38:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/07\/2026-prediction-time\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T09:38:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:38:40","slug":"2026-prediction-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/07\/2026-prediction-time\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Prediction Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We begin the year by peering into our crystal balls and issuing some <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/12\/7-predictions-for-2026-that-should-come-true-but-wont\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">predictions for 2026<\/a>. Who will be fired? What\u2019s going to happen with law schools? Is a big change on the horizon for Biglaw? Our predictions will inevitably be wrong, but we\u2019ll offer them with a lot of confidence \u2014 just like AI would.<\/p>\n<p>Also a whole lot of sports talk for a law podcast.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/2026-prediction-time\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 Prediction Time!<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-874639574-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>We begin the year by peering into our crystal balls and issuing some <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/12\/7-predictions-for-2026-that-should-come-true-but-wont\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">predictions for 2026<\/a>. Who will be fired? What\u2019s going to happen with law schools? Is a big change on the horizon for Biglaw? Our predictions will inevitably be wrong, but we\u2019ll offer them with a lot of confidence \u2014 just like AI would.<\/p>\n<p>Also a whole lot of sports talk for a law podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We begin the year by peering into our crystal balls and issuing some predictions for 2026. Who will be fired? What\u2019s going to happen with law schools? Is a big change on the horizon for Biglaw? Our predictions will inevitably be wrong, but we\u2019ll offer them with a lot of confidence \u2014 just like AI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":141143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-874639574-scaled-NemwXY.jpg?fit=2560%2C2560&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}