Harvey has replaced any need I have to work with students or juniors. I feel bad for them and I’m sure I’m next, but damn.

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Can Harvey make a mid level or a senior? How will you get them?

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There is significant tension in law firms about everyone’s roles and where energy should be expended re mentoring and training vs client service and billable hours.

I think they are aligned and you need to properly train and mentor lawyers to provide the best client service, but I have been shouted down in many a partner meeting by folks who think otherwise, saying that is not their job. Their job is to serve the client. The juniors need to figure out how to best serve them to serve the client. They don’t have hours in the day for hand holding.

To be fair, that’s a more factual argument in less leveraged practices where they are partner heavy and only have a handful of associates because, ideally, most mentoring comes from someone 1-2 class years ahead. Most partners haven’t done junior associate tasks in too long to to do or teach them efficiently and are also terrible people managers.

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Harvey and other so called AI will likely do the same thing to law firms as what use of email, the MS suite and the internet did back in the day. It will further reduce paralegal and support jobs and increase profitability by replacing expensive human labor with cheaper machine labor. Law firms used to have two paralegals for every attorney and now it’s far less and the firms are doing very well.

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Also, for what it’s worth, just got an invite from Mercor asking me to train an AI to do senior level work. I signed up to do work for them on other stuff when I took a break from big law before going in house. I don’t think any of us should think we are safe. They know Senior level work is an area of opportunity for them.

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Can Harvey track hundreds of emails, tell which ones we need to address, ask me a few questions, and then respond?

But I’m incredibly reliant on the 50 percent that can

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