{"id":144664,"date":"2026-02-23T16:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T00:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/23\/did-baker-mckenzie-just-give-biglaw-permission-to-blame-ai-for-mass-layoffs\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T16:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T00:57:14","slug":"did-baker-mckenzie-just-give-biglaw-permission-to-blame-ai-for-mass-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/23\/did-baker-mckenzie-just-give-biglaw-permission-to-blame-ai-for-mass-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Baker McKenzie Just Give Biglaw Permission To Blame AI For Mass Layoffs?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

If they use AI to justify it, they won\u2019t look as cruel when they make that many staff cuts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Scott Love, president of legal industry recruiter The Attorney Search Group, in comments given to the New York Law Journal<\/a>, concerning the recent spate of layoffs at Baker McKenzie, where the firm parted ways with hundreds of business professionals<\/a> while noting that artificial intelligence factored into the move. Industry insiders predict that more layoffs may be on the way, with Baker\u2019s cuts offering permission for other firms to move forward with their own. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Did Baker McKenzie Just Give Biglaw Permission To Blame AI For Mass Layoffs?<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

If they use AI to justify it, they won\u2019t look as cruel when they make that many staff cuts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Scott Love, president of legal industry recruiter The Attorney Search Group, in comments given to the New York Law Journal<\/a>, concerning the recent spate of layoffs at Baker McKenzie, where the firm parted ways with hundreds of business professionals<\/a> while noting that artificial intelligence factored into the move. Industry insiders predict that more layoffs may be on the way, with Baker\u2019s cuts offering permission for other firms to move forward with their own. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Did Baker McKenzie Just Give Biglaw Permission To Blame AI For Mass Layoffs?<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. If they use AI to justify it, they won\u2019t look as cruel when they make that many staff cuts. \u2014\u00a0Scott Love, president of legal industry recruiter The Attorney Search Group, in comments given to the New York Law Journal, concerning the recent spate of layoffs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":144665,"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-144664","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\/02\/Staci-Zaretsky-17yySU.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144664","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=144664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}