Goldman Sachs predicts that artificial intelligence will disrupt 44% of legal jobs.  While no one is suggesting that four out of ten lawyers will be replaced by technology advances, make no mistake:  companies prefer fewer lawyers to more lawyers, and corporate counsel should prepare for the future accordingly.

Forward thinkers like Richard Susskind (“End of Lawyers”) and Jeff Carr (former general counsel of Univar and FMC Technologies) have been predicting true disruption in LawWorld for years.  But the historical business model of our profession has held stubbornly firm and the human billable hour remains king as of 2023.