Moving beyond the billable hour requires more than negotiating new fee structures with outside counsel.

Ruben Miessen, CEO of Belgium-based AI company Legalfly, predicts the billable hour will die in 2026, noting that generative ...

Rimon Law managing partner Juan Zuniga predicts that, aided by AI, the percentage of global revenue that arrives via ...

The ability of AI to reduce the time required for certain legal tasks is exposing the legal profession's reliance on the billable hour.

The ability of AI to reduce the time required for certain legal tasks is exposing both the legal profession’s reliance on the ...

Generative AI is transforming the legal industry, but attorneys say the billable hour is here to stay. Instead, they said the value of a lawyer's hour is likely to increase as AI tools help automate ...

Mark Doble is the Founder and CEO of Alexi, a legal intelligence platform helping law firms deploy AI on their own terms. There’s a common story in legal tech that the billable hour blocks innovation.

For decades, law firm financial models have been built on a simple premise: people doing lots of work. The industry has functioned on the billable hour, where time is directly equated with money. It ...

Early in my career, I was doing well at a midsized accounting firm. But one thing struck me as absurd. There was constant pressure on my team and me to hit a certain number of billable hours — a lot ...