{"id":167325,"date":"2026-11-13T08:02:38","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T16:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=167325"},"modified":"2026-11-13T08:02:38","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T16:02:38","slug":"law-firms-have-adopted-ai-the-returns-depend-on-how-they-run-the-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/11\/13\/law-firms-have-adopted-ai-the-returns-depend-on-how-they-run-the-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Law Firms Have Adopted AI: The Returns Depend on How They Run the Business"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the uncomfortable truth about AI in law firms: adoption was the easy part. Firms did in two years what this profession failed to do with almost every technology before it. But adoption was never the goal. Return is. And on return, the evidence is starting to come in \u2014 and it should get every managing partner’s attention.<\/p>\n

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Here is the uncomfortable truth about AI in law firms: adoption was the easy part. Firms did in two years what this profession failed to do with almost every technology before it. But adoption was never the goal. Return is. And on return, the evidence is starting to come in \u2014 and it should get every managing partner’s attention.<\/p>\n

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Here is the uncomfortable truth about AI in law firms: adoption was the easy part. Firms did in two years what this profession failed to do with almost every technology before it. But adoption was never the goal. Return is. And on return, the evidence is starting to come in \u2014 and it should get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":167326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167325","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=167325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167329,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167325\/revisions\/167329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}