Brown: Traditional high-rate law firms will shrink or shutter within a decade
Logan Brown · Deploying Agentic AI for Legal Support with Logan Brown of Soxton | The Innovators & Investors Podcast · Jun 30, 2026 · at 11:18
Logan Brown, founder and CEO of Soxton, discusses how automation and AI investment will disrupt traditional law firms charging $1,000 per hour.
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“I think there's no way the legal industry looks the same as it does in five and 10 years. I think that some law firms will be skeletons of what they were. I think that some law firms that do things that ultimately doesn't make sense for humans to be doing at a thousand dollars an hour are not, no longer around.”
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