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To start with when you hire a lawyer, you know, you get that billable hour. It's, it's scary. It's like 0.1 hours to even think about you, to read an email, whatever it may be. So I wrote this story for my newsletter and called the current. Right. And all about how billable hours are going away because now the law firms are using artificial intelligence.

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But why is that billable hours going away? If they're using AI, then it would just be less of a billable time. Right? So instead of point of an hour.

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It'S 0.5 or is 30 seconds. Right. Okay, so law firms are saying like, so how are we going to bill? Because if we can't bill 40 seconds, if we're going to be analyzing 100 pages in order to present a case about you to a judge, which probably.

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Took them what, an hour before?

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Two hours? No, that probably. You kidding? A thousand. Probably 20 hours. Wow. I mean, because they have to sort through it. They got to find the risks and they have to do all this. And you know, and I'm not dissing lawyers. I love lawyers. Some of my best friends are lawyers. They're always super smart. But I can't stand paying $700 an hour, $500 an hour for all this stuff. As a matter of fact, when Barry's on the phone with a lawyer, I'm like, he doesn't need to know about the weather. Okay, just. Just keep it right here, keep it right here, keep it right here. And so they're getting into flat fees, and so a contract could be like 2 grand. A divorce, 5 grand, 7 grand, whatever it may be.

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But is that going to end up being more expensive?

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I don't think so. Okay. I don't think so because. Because I think you now have like a fixed fee and you have a deliverable, so there's a value for that product. And so my. I got a text from my favorite lawyer, John Duran, and he just said to me, you're killing me. You're killing me.

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Is this your lawyer?

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Yes.

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So you must have fired him or told him to change his rates, Right?

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He knows it's coming, I guess you'd say. But it's also coming for anyone else who trades time for money. CPAs, marketing companies, I mean, anybody that you can really use AI. And it's also going to affect the learning pool because if you have a law firm of 100 guys and gals, 20% may be juniors and they're the ones that normally doing all the grunt work. Well, if AI is doing the grunt work, do we need the junior lawyers anymore?

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Nope.

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