In one of the first acquisitions of its kind, legal tech company Lawhive recently acquired outright a UK law firm. This could signal the beginning of a fundamental shift in how legal services are delivered.
As Jordan Furlong recently predicted, AI may enable firms to “generate output that can be sold to clients with no lawyer involvement at all.”The Lawhive acquisition makes this prediction feel less theoretical. Some key questions, though: Will clients know when AI handles their work? How do we balance efficiency gains with quality safeguards? And are we witnessing the first domino in a larger transformation of the legal profession?
Here’s my Above the Law post.