Hi Eric! Interesting take. I think with Claude's skills, you can go even deeper to specify your drafting style, research, and structure. Furthermore, this is what I believe Kirkland & Ellis is attempting to do by encoding partner judgment into AI. This would also help junior associates pick up judgment quickly.
I write about LegalTech, analyzing startups, trends, and investment opportunities in the space. Would love to know your thoughts on my post analyzing three white spaces to look out for in 2026!
Thanks Harshith - there are definitely limits to what we can encode, and there'll always be a premium for real human judgment when it counts. Agent-to-agent interactions will become more common soon, and that'll be another opportunity to test out this thesis. Thanks for sharing.
@Eric Xiyu Li! Yes, agent-to-agent interactions will become much more common, but I think the real skill set of the lawyer would be to build standardized evaluation processes to catch errors generated by such agents. This would ensure human-in-the-loop while also enabling productivity gains.
Obsessed with this. Think about how this can impact switching costs for GCs. Rapid acceleration from an old school firm and one thay can ingest a mindset.md and hit the ground running. Even more powerful for a firm that can ingest client's feedback seamlessly and build its own mindset.md that is continually improved through each interaction. I am thinking we could even build some standard mindset files for new clients to choose from at onboarding, like a jump off point.
It will be interesting to see how these professional social norms will evolve over time as people adapt to new tech and ways of working. Business cards aren’t common in my work these days, but scanning someone’s LinkedIn profile QR code certainly is.
Hi Eric! Interesting take. I think with Claude's skills, you can go even deeper to specify your drafting style, research, and structure. Furthermore, this is what I believe Kirkland & Ellis is attempting to do by encoding partner judgment into AI. This would also help junior associates pick up judgment quickly.
I write about LegalTech, analyzing startups, trends, and investment opportunities in the space. Would love to know your thoughts on my post analyzing three white spaces to look out for in 2026!
https://harshithviswanath.substack.com/p/three-legaltech-whitespace-plays
Thanks Harshith - there are definitely limits to what we can encode, and there'll always be a premium for real human judgment when it counts. Agent-to-agent interactions will become more common soon, and that'll be another opportunity to test out this thesis. Thanks for sharing.
@Eric Xiyu Li! Yes, agent-to-agent interactions will become much more common, but I think the real skill set of the lawyer would be to build standardized evaluation processes to catch errors generated by such agents. This would ensure human-in-the-loop while also enabling productivity gains.
Obsessed with this. Think about how this can impact switching costs for GCs. Rapid acceleration from an old school firm and one thay can ingest a mindset.md and hit the ground running. Even more powerful for a firm that can ingest client's feedback seamlessly and build its own mindset.md that is continually improved through each interaction. I am thinking we could even build some standard mindset files for new clients to choose from at onboarding, like a jump off point.
It will be interesting to see how these professional social norms will evolve over time as people adapt to new tech and ways of working. Business cards aren’t common in my work these days, but scanning someone’s LinkedIn profile QR code certainly is.