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“So I don't necessarily, I wouldn't advise any, you know, potential entrepreneur who's now in high school to follow the legal route to, as a stepping stone to becoming a lawyer.”

“So the lawyers pay us a 10% commission.”

“There's really no way of knowing what you should be paying for legal advice. And also that lawyers tend to quote, you know, very different amounts for the same job, all based on a different, you know, perception of the complexities of the matter.”

“Lawyers that I knew that trained at the larger firms and were really good, but who for lifestyle reasons had either started their own practice or joined a smaller boutique firm. And generally speaking, they would charge themselves out for half their previous h…”

“You should not give regulation to lawyers. Yourself, you know, you need to go as deep as possible.”

“The lawyer that you engage will tell you, you've got a great case when you start out. As you get closer, To the courtroom door. And as you spent more and more money, they start changing the tune slightly just because suddenly, and maybe just not hearing what t…”

“For every dollar lawyers spend on software, they spend five dollars on Westlaw Thomson Reuters for actual legal information.”

“Selling software to lawyers is a particularly shitty business. It's a more constrained business. You've got to do more. You've got to help more. You've got to speed them up”

“We only have one shot with these lawyers because they are very impatient. If it doesn't work, they're not going to come back.”

“There are going to be more lawyers in the next five years than we have today.”

“So naturally there, there's roles, I think that, that creep in, you know, you get the, like a lawyer and accountant are not going to work in the same way that you know, a software engineer might. And that's just a fact of life. So, okay. So if they don't want …”

“Eventually, lawyers will not be nitty gritty about the language of the contracts. They will work a level above, which is maybe like, What's our negotiation stance? Like what risks are we okay? Which ones are we not okay taking? And not sit and type into word.”

“Almost always performance. Performance is more important. Almost always. If you're a lawyer, you can wait two seconds more for the output if it's better. You can probably wait an hour more for the output if it's better.”