{"id":153194,"date":"2026-05-29T06:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/29\/biglaws-latest-ai-pitch-faster-associates-more-deals\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T06:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:19:15","slug":"biglaws-latest-ai-pitch-faster-associates-more-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/29\/biglaws-latest-ai-pitch-faster-associates-more-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"Biglaw\u2019s Latest AI Pitch: Faster Associates, More Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

It enables you to do more deals. We do expect a junior would become what we think of now as a mid-level faster.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0\u00a0Becky Zelenka<\/a>, co-head of the private funds group at Fried Frank, in comments given to Bloomberg Law<\/a>, concerning the firm\u2019s new internally built artificial intelligence platform, FundAssist. She went on to say that instead of cutting the number associates in the PE funds group, the AI tool will help them \u201cramp up\u201d more quickly.<\/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 Biglaw\u2019s Latest AI Pitch: Faster Associates, More Deals<\/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

It enables you to do more deals. We do expect a junior would become what we think of now as a mid-level faster.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0\u00a0Becky Zelenka<\/a>, co-head of the private funds group at Fried Frank, in comments given to Bloomberg Law<\/a>, concerning the firm\u2019s new internally built artificial intelligence platform, FundAssist. She went on to say that instead of cutting the number associates in the PE funds group, the AI tool will help them \u201cramp up\u201d more quickly.<\/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

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Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. It enables you to do more deals. We do expect a junior would become what we think of now as a mid-level faster. \u2014\u00a0\u00a0Becky Zelenka, co-head of the private funds group at Fried Frank, in comments given to Bloomberg Law, concerning the firm\u2019s new internally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":153128,"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-153194","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-fOlCPP.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153194","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=153194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}