{"id":157575,"date":"2026-07-20T15:43:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/20\/biglaw-may-want-to-break-up-with-the-billable-hour-thanks-to-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T15:43:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:43:37","slug":"biglaw-may-want-to-break-up-with-the-billable-hour-thanks-to-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/20\/biglaw-may-want-to-break-up-with-the-billable-hour-thanks-to-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Biglaw May Want To Break Up With The Billable Hour Thanks To AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

We all need to collectively move on in our thinking to get alternative fee arrangements working in the right way.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0<\/i><\/span>Sunny Mann<\/a>, global chair of Baker McKenzie, in comments given during a recent appearance on Bloomberg Law\u2019s On The Merits podcast<\/a>, concerning the future of the billable hour, and the way billing may change thanks to the rise of AI.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is 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 email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Biglaw May Want To Break Up With The Billable Hour Thanks To AI<\/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

We all need to collectively move on in our thinking to get alternative fee arrangements working in the right way.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0<\/i>Sunny Mann<\/a>, global chair of Baker McKenzie, in comments given during a recent appearance on , concerning the future of the billable hour, and the way billing may change thanks to the rise of AI.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is 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 email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. We all need to collectively move on in our thinking to get alternative fee arrangements working in the right way. \u2014\u00a0Sunny Mann, global chair of Baker McKenzie, in comments given during a recent appearance on Bloomberg Law\u2019s On The Merits podcast, concerning the future of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":157576,"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-157575","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\/Staci-Zaretsky-7ajDs8.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157575","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=157575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}