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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: 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: 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…”