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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]yes, biglaw has changed from what it was before the 2008 crash, but I don't see where automation is having an effect. it's clients demanding more for less money spent. automation can help a bit here, but in the long run isn't going to have a real effect. it's true that clients don't want to pay for first years to learn, [b]but what is a biglaw firm going to do - not hire first years?[/b] they need midlevels and seniors and can only rely so much on hiring laterals from boutiques and midlaw.[/quote]

How about hire first years but do not bill them out at exorbitant rates?  As a GC, I am not going to pay $350/hr for Biglaw to teach a first year how to put together a transactional closing checklist as a "teaching exercise" when a half-decent paralegal can pull it together at less than half the rate in half the time.  Biglaw needs to build training into its business model ---not just expect clients to pay full freight for first years who know NOTHING.  I only pay for one lawyer at a meeting---don't put the partner on the call and have an associate sitting there in the background and then bill me $1000+/hr for both.

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Totally agree. The U.S. law school model is broken. Period. Just look at our neighbors to the north or across the Atlantic. They adopt a apprenticeship approach where students are required to work for a year (or two(?)) at a firm as a trainee to become barred and licensed. Just like how residency is here in the U.S. It's unfortunate how the money-hungry lawyers of the profession have corrupted the education and training. [/quote]

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