Shared Links (weekly) Jan. 25, 2026
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Worth Reading – The Legal Profession Cannot Yoga Its Way Out of a Mental Health Crisis
Yoga or mindfulness seminars are nice, but they won’t eliminate the mental health impacts of working 60-80 hours every week. If that’s your expectation, you are harming your employees. If your business model depends on causing this harm, don’t be surprised that people opt to do something other than continuing to work for you. It’s in their best interests.
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Worth Reading – AI Is Killing The Billable Hour (And It’s About Time)
For lawyers and other professionals, billing hours is indeed a dumb approach. It hasn’t made sense in years. If AI finally pushes that out of our way, we’ll owe it thanks for that alone. I don’t think AI is good enough to do work on its own, though, so the question then becomes, what are we billing for? Where’s the work? Do you have solid baselines for how much value AI brings versus how much a human is having to contribute to make up for times when the AI falls short, and who decides that?
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Shared Links (weekly) May 18, 2025
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Shared Links (weekly) April 27, 2025
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Linked – ‘Give Us Legal AI Or We’re Leaving’ – Survey
The hype around AI has reached levels we’ve never seen before. Even skeptics of how well AI works must acknowledge that most professionals are aware of AI tools and curious enough to try them out. Do those efforts match the hype? Likely not, but the fact that AI is everywhere they look right now, except at work, tells them a lot about the firm they are working in. It’s not what they want to see from their firm.
What would be interesting to me is a follow-up survey of how many partners would leave if the firm did embrace AI and push them to use it in their practice.
