{"id":147097,"date":"2026-03-25T14:25:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/25\/ai-training-is-a-must-at-this-biglaw-firm-but-lawyers-wont-receive-any-billable-hours-for-it\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T14:25:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:25:24","slug":"ai-training-is-a-must-at-this-biglaw-firm-but-lawyers-wont-receive-any-billable-hours-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/25\/ai-training-is-a-must-at-this-biglaw-firm-but-lawyers-wont-receive-any-billable-hours-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Training Is A Must At This Biglaw Firm, But Lawyers Won\u2019t Receive Any Billable Hours For It"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

They need to be very, very good at utilizing these tools and investing in themselves. If you need motivation to learn how to use AI in your career right now, we probably have other things that we should be concerned about with you.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0 Chase Simmons<\/a>, chair of Polsinelli, in comments given during an appearance on Bloomberg Law\u2019s On The Merits podcast<\/a>, concerning attorneys\u2019 use of artificial intelligence at the firm. He went on to say that lawyers at the firm won\u2019t receive billable credit for their AI training, noting, \u201c[t]his should just be every day you wake up and have breakfast and think about how to incorporate this into your career.\u201d<\/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 AI Training Is A Must At This Biglaw Firm, But Lawyers Won\u2019t Receive Any Billable Hours For It<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

They need to be very, very good at utilizing these tools and investing in themselves. If you need motivation to learn how to use AI in your career right now, we probably have other things that we should be concerned about with you.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0 Chase Simmons<\/a>, chair of Polsinelli, in comments given during an appearance on Bloomberg Law\u2019s On The Merits podcast<\/a>, concerning attorneys\u2019 use of artificial intelligence at the firm. He went on to say that lawyers at the firm won\u2019t receive billable credit for their AI training, noting, \u201c[t]his should just be every day you wake up and have breakfast and think about how to incorporate this into your career.\u201d<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. They need to be very, very good at utilizing these tools and investing in themselves. If you need motivation to learn how to use AI in your career right now, we probably have other things that we should be concerned about with you. \u2014\u00a0 Chase […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":147098,"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-147097","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\/03\/Staci-Zaretsky-JuCADE.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147097","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=147097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}