{"id":156877,"date":"2026-07-15T15:27:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T23:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/15\/collateral-damage-across-the-legal-industry\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:27:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T23:27:28","slug":"collateral-damage-across-the-legal-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/15\/collateral-damage-across-the-legal-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Collateral Damage Across The Legal Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everyone talks about conflicts and redundancies, but the saddest merger collateral damage is forcing legacy lawyers to <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/the-downside-of-a-biglaw-merger-legacy-cadwalader-timekeepers-get-a-not-so-fun-homework-assignment\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">go back through the last six months of their time<\/a>. That\u2019s what\u2019s happening to the Cadwalader associates as their timekeeping system merges with Hogan Lovells. On the law school side, the University of Chicago unveiled its new AI policy to keep students genuinely learning while still tackling the reality of a future AI-enhanced workflow. But laptops became the collateral damage there, as the new policy bans students from bringing their computers to class at all. And we have a deep dive into <em>Moana<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/collateral-damage-across-the-legal-industry\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Collateral Damage Across The Legal Industry<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-1218283510-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everyone talks about conflicts and redundancies, but the saddest merger collateral damage is forcing legacy lawyers to <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/the-downside-of-a-biglaw-merger-legacy-cadwalader-timekeepers-get-a-not-so-fun-homework-assignment\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">go back through the last six months of their time<\/a>. That\u2019s what\u2019s happening to the Cadwalader associates as their timekeeping system merges with Hogan Lovells. On the law school side, the University of Chicago unveiled its new AI policy to keep students genuinely learning while still tackling the reality of a future AI-enhanced workflow. But laptops became the collateral damage there, as the new policy bans students from bringing their computers to class at all. And we have a deep dive into <em>Moana<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone talks about conflicts and redundancies, but the saddest merger collateral damage is forcing legacy lawyers to go back through the last six months of their time. That\u2019s what\u2019s happening to the Cadwalader associates as their timekeeping system merges with Hogan Lovells. On the law school side, the University of Chicago unveiled its new AI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":156878,"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-156877","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\/07\/GettyImages-1218283510-scaled-Cf2NG8.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156877","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=156877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}