Dave Kimelberg - Due Processor

No. 2026.1111 Nov 11, 2026

The Firm Is the Product: The Rise of AI-Native Law Firms

Two weeks ago, the management committee of Weil, Gotshal & Manges recommended an orderly wind-down of a 95-year-old firm that billed roughly $2.1 billion last year. Within days, the trade press was reporting that AI Native

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No. 2026.1111 Nov 11, 2026

Law Is Made, Not Found: Why the Singularity Stops at the Courthouse Door

A superintelligent machine can transform mathematics (which it is doing). It cannot do the same to law, because law is something people make, not something waiting to be discovered (with all due respect to natural law theorists). The singularity, and

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No. 2026.1111 Nov 11, 2026

The Missing Rung: AI Is Doing the Junior's Job. Who Trains the Next Partner?

AI can now do much of the work that used to fill a first-year associate's week, and it does it faster and cheaper. What nobody has worked out is how lawyers will learn judgment once that work

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