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Junestrand: Anthropic and Gemini will outperform OpenAI in enterprise AI
“I'll bet based on what I've seen in the last sort of three, six months. I think for our type of work, it will either be cloud or Gemini. That is the top model. And it will be dependent on if context window is a very important factor or not. So far it is not be…”
Junestrand: Legora will win law firms even if Harvey is free
“Now I'm building Lagora in a way where even if Harvey's free, a firm will choose to work with us because that's how much better I want to be in terms of our product and our service offering and where we take our clients and the work we do for them.”
Junestrand: AI will lead to fewer junior lawyer and trainee roles
“I do think that there will Probably be less junior lawyers and trainees, but, because I think that you just won't need as many people to execute the work that the firm has.”
Junestrand: Mid-sized law firms will struggle while big and small law thrive
“I think big law will do really well because they have a lot of moats and a lot of brand and a lot of data. I think small law can do really well because that's still operating on a very, very personal basis. I think where it might get difficult is mid law, wher…”
Junestrand: More software engineers will be writing code in two years
“You'll have more people writing code and doing things or starting new things and projects and things in two years than you have today.”
Junestrand: AI will complete end-to-end legal tasks within 2 years
“Well, I think it's within that time frame that AI gets Pretty good at completing end-to-end tasks very deterministically within our vertical.”
Junestrand: Billable hours will persist because clients demand itemized breakdowns
“I think billing will move much slower than both you and I would think because some very often it's actually demanded by the clients because they want to get a breakdown of everything that the lawyers actually do. And it will start to be replaced by fixed fees …”
Junestrand: AI point solutions will not survive an AI bubble
“I really do believe in the platformization. I think there are way too many point solutions that will not survive a winter bubble, whatever you might call it, and they would They would deliver more value as being part of a broader ecosystem.”
Junestrand: Transactional law will adopt value-based pricing over billable hours
“And so you have a structure in the largest law firms in the world where they're moving from the billable hour to fixed pricing. And what you have in finance is you take a portion of the transaction value, and we will start to see that happening too in transact…”
Junestrand: Manual data room search by young lawyers will be obsolete in 10 years
“Young corporate lawyer sitting in the data room pressing Ctrl F to find clauses.”
Junestrand: OpenAI will win the consumer AI productivity market
“Now, I think the majority bucket here is in the general productivity for the general consumer, and I think OpenAI is going to win that game.”
Junestrand: Legora will immediately switch AI models if superior options emerge
“And so if a, if Gemini is better, we will switch immediately. Or if OpenAI is better, we will switch immediately. Or if a new model comes out that's better, we will switch immediately. You know, proving that the evals is better.”
Junestrand: AI platform pricing power will be far higher than SaaS
“Not only do I think it will get there, but I think your ability to price versus traditional sauce products will be insanely high.”
Legora CEO expects headcount to double from 300 to 600 in six months
“The biggest challenge that We have right now is growing from 30 to 300 and then doubling again in the next two quarters from 300 to 600 and maintaining the ambition, integrity, teamwork, and just like raw grit that got us here when you double the team.”
Junestrand: Private equity will drive massive law firm consolidation
“So I think law firms will go through a quite significant consolidation period, because so far there hasn't been a lot of incentives to consolidate law firms, but now actually private equity wants to get in on the action. They want to fund different law firms w…”