{"id":152626,"date":"2026-05-22T06:24:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/22\/keeping-up-with-ai-has-become-biglaws-full-time-job\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T06:24:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:24:55","slug":"keeping-up-with-ai-has-become-biglaws-full-time-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/22\/keeping-up-with-ai-has-become-biglaws-full-time-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Up With AI Has Become Biglaw\u2019s Full-Time Job"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Certainly, nobody wants to say we don\u2019t know what we\u2019re doing. But the reality is, if we\u2019re honest about it, they don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen and they\u2019re desperate to keep up with what\u2019s happening.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What has changed is there is beginning to be some appreciation for doing things first or being ahead of the market. Firms are willing to at least say that.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0\u00a0Ryan McClead, chief executive officer of legal tech consultancy Sente Advisors, in comments given to Bloomberg Law<\/a>, concerning rapid artificial intelligence innovation within the legal profession that has left Biglaw firms scrambling to keep up with the latest technologies. <\/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 Keeping Up With AI Has Become Biglaw\u2019s Full-Time Job<\/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

Certainly, nobody wants to say we don\u2019t know what we\u2019re doing. But the reality is, if we\u2019re honest about it, they don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen and they\u2019re desperate to keep up with what\u2019s happening.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What has changed is there is beginning to be some appreciation for doing things first or being ahead of the market. Firms are willing to at least say that.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0\u00a0Ryan McClead, chief executive officer of legal tech consultancy Sente Advisors, in comments given to Bloomberg Law<\/a>, concerning rapid artificial intelligence innovation within the legal profession that has left Biglaw firms scrambling to keep up with the latest technologies. <\/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. Certainly, nobody wants to say we don\u2019t know what we\u2019re doing. But the reality is, if we\u2019re honest about it, they don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen and they\u2019re desperate to keep up with what\u2019s happening. What has changed is there is beginning to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":152577,"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-152626","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\/05\/Staci-Zaretsky-YVA8P6.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152626","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=152626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}