{"id":167143,"date":"2026-11-10T23:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T07:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/11\/10\/guest-post-beyond-the-billable-hour-will-ai-finally-make-fixed-fees-the-norm\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T23:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T07:36:00","slug":"guest-post-beyond-the-billable-hour-will-ai-finally-make-fixed-fees-the-norm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/11\/10\/guest-post-beyond-the-billable-hour-will-ai-finally-make-fixed-fees-the-norm\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Post: Beyond the Billable Hour \u2014 Will AI Finally Make Fixed Fees the Norm?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawnext.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Beyond-the-Billable-Hour-Featured-1024x576.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\">Thirty-five years ago, lawyers told me fixed fees could never work. A skyscraper and a quarter helped me address their concerns but nothing ever changed. AI gives us a new reason to listen. There is plenty of talk today about whether AI will end the billable hour. If work that once took hours can be [\u2026]<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawnext.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Beyond-the-Billable-Hour-Featured-1024x576.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\">Thirty-five years ago, lawyers told me fixed fees could never work. A skyscraper and a quarter helped me address their concerns but nothing ever changed. AI gives us a new reason to listen. There is plenty of talk today about whether AI will end the billable hour. If work that once took hours can be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-five years ago, lawyers told me fixed fees could never work. A skyscraper and a quarter helped me address their concerns but nothing ever changed. AI gives us a new reason to listen. There is plenty of talk today about whether AI will end the billable hour. If work that once took hours can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":166545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawsite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167143","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=167143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}