The Gap Is Closing: Why AI Is Breaking The Billable Hour Model
For legal operations professionals, the question is no longer whether AI will change the billable hour model, but whether your department is ready to manage that change.
For legal operations professionals, the question is no longer whether AI will change the billable hour model, but whether your department is ready to manage that change.
This episode of UpLevel View is for legal leaders looking to stay ahead in an AI-driven world.
Legal and operational leaders are gathering May 6–7 in Fort Lauderdale to confront the questions the industry hasn't answered—with a keynote from Amanda Knox setting the tone.
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Rita Gunther McGrath, Columbia Business School professor and Wall Street Journal columnist, discusses how AI is forcing professional services to price outcomes instead of hours.
2026 won’t reward speed for its own sake. It will reward clarity, structure, and operational maturity.
The new generation of AI-related legal issues are inherently cross-disciplinary, implicating corporate law, intellectual property, data privacy, employment, corporate governance and regulatory compliance.
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When operations lead the strategy, AI becomes an amplifier for good work, not a replacement for it.
Grubhub's law department head joins the latest UpLevel View podcast.
The real question for legal leadership is not whether to modernize. It is where to focus first.
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