{"id":149244,"date":"2026-04-20T14:51:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/20\/in-biglaw-ai-adoption-is-no-longer-optional\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T14:51:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:51:26","slug":"in-biglaw-ai-adoption-is-no-longer-optional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/20\/in-biglaw-ai-adoption-is-no-longer-optional\/","title":{"rendered":"In Biglaw, AI Adoption Is No Longer Optional"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

I remember not so long ago that clients would say to me \u2018Please tell me you\u2019re not using AI.\u2019 And now they\u2019re saying to me \u2018Please tell me you are using AI.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0 Stacy Ackermann<\/a>, global managing partner of K&L Gates, in comments given during an appearance on Bloomberg Law\u2019s On The Merits podcast<\/a>, concerning clients encouraging her firm\u2019s use of artificial intelligence, even after attorneys were slapped with a $31,000 sanction<\/a> for using hallucinated citations in court filings.<\/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 In Biglaw, AI Adoption Is No Longer Optional<\/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

I remember not so long ago that clients would say to me \u2018Please tell me you\u2019re not using AI.\u2019 And now they\u2019re saying to me \u2018Please tell me you are using AI.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0 Stacy Ackermann<\/a>, global managing partner of K&L Gates, in comments given during an appearance on Bloomberg Law\u2019s On The Merits podcast<\/a>, concerning clients encouraging her firm\u2019s use of artificial intelligence, even after attorneys were slapped with a $31,000 sanction<\/a> for using hallucinated citations in court filings.<\/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 In Biglaw, AI Adoption Is No Longer Optional<\/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. I remember not so long ago that clients would say to me \u2018Please tell me you\u2019re not using AI.\u2019 And now they\u2019re saying to me \u2018Please tell me you are using AI.\u2019 \u2014\u00a0 Stacy Ackermann, global managing partner of K&L Gates, in comments given during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":149245,"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-149244","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\/04\/Staci-Zaretsky-FXp1fB.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149244","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=149244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}