{"id":144377,"date":"2026-02-18T15:44:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/18\/ai-takes-the-blame-epstein-takes-the-careers\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T15:44:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:44:02","slug":"ai-takes-the-blame-epstein-takes-the-careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/18\/ai-takes-the-blame-epstein-takes-the-careers\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Takes The Blame, Epstein Takes The Careers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a Biglaw firm <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/02\/top-10-biglaw-firm-to-conduct-massive-layoff-leaving-hundreds-jobless-thanks-to-ai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">officially blaming staff layoffs on AI<\/a>, what is it going to look like if and when layoffs come for lawyers? It\u2019s unlikely to <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/02\/baker-mckenzie-blamed-ai-for-massive-layoff-but-the-problem-is-much-more-complicated\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">look the same for every Biglaw business model<\/a>. And it could look even more <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/02\/instead-of-replacing-departing-associate-firm-leaned-on-ai-costs-are-down-27-percent-and-profits-are-up\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">different for boutiques<\/a>. Embattled Goldman Sachs chief legal officer Kathryn Ruemmler announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/02\/ok-we-need-to-talk-about-what-these-kathryn-ruemmler-jeffrey-epstein-emails-really-mean\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">she\u2019d be leaving her role<\/a> after her Jeffrey Epstein connections came out in the last file dump. And we found out that the late <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/02\/ken-starr-writing-to-my-friend-my-brother-jeffrey-epstein\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Starr thought of Epstein as a brother<\/a>, which tracks. We also saw the first majr firm strike a blow against the <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/02\/top-biglaw-firm-pumps-the-brakes-on-early-recruiting-in-a-rare-win-for-law-students\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expedited law school recruiting cycle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/02\/ai-takes-the-blame-epstein-takes-the-careers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI Takes The Blame, Epstein Takes The Careers<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With a Biglaw firm <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/02\/top-10-biglaw-firm-to-conduct-massive-layoff-leaving-hundreds-jobless-thanks-to-ai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">officially blaming staff layoffs on AI<\/a>, what is it going to look like if and when layoffs come for lawyers? It\u2019s unlikely to <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/02\/baker-mckenzie-blamed-ai-for-massive-layoff-but-the-problem-is-much-more-complicated\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">look the same for every Biglaw business model<\/a>. And it could look even more <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/02\/instead-of-replacing-departing-associate-firm-leaned-on-ai-costs-are-down-27-percent-and-profits-are-up\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">different for boutiques<\/a>. Embattled Goldman Sachs chief legal officer Kathryn Ruemmler announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/02\/ok-we-need-to-talk-about-what-these-kathryn-ruemmler-jeffrey-epstein-emails-really-mean\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">she\u2019d be leaving her role<\/a> after her Jeffrey Epstein connections came out in the last file dump. And we found out that the late <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/02\/ken-starr-writing-to-my-friend-my-brother-jeffrey-epstein\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Starr thought of Epstein as a brother<\/a>, which tracks. We also saw the first majr firm strike a blow against the <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/02\/top-biglaw-firm-pumps-the-brakes-on-early-recruiting-in-a-rare-win-for-law-students\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expedited law school recruiting cycle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/02\/ai-takes-the-blame-epstein-takes-the-careers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI Takes The Blame, Epstein Takes The Careers<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a Biglaw firm officially blaming staff layoffs on AI, what is it going to look like if and when layoffs come for lawyers? It\u2019s unlikely to look the same for every Biglaw business model. And it could look even more different for boutiques. Embattled Goldman Sachs chief legal officer Kathryn Ruemmler announced that she\u2019d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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-144377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144377","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=144377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}