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Law firms are bottlenecked by attorney capacity, not case volume

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“is, something they look at, which is how many cases can an attorney handle at once.”

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is, something they look at, which is how many cases can an attorney handle at once. And that is indirectly tied to how many cases can their marketing engine feed them with, how many cases are they able to kind of move on to the next step so they're not actively working on it, and ultimately, all of that is labor constraint. Right? So they're working on tasks. You know, one case might be stuck at, go interview

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Jay explains how law firms' growth is constrained by how many cases attorneys can handle simultaneously, not their ability to generate leads. The real bottleneck is labor - attorneys getting stuck on manual tasks that prevent them from moving cases forward efficiently.

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Reveals a counterintuitive insight about law firm operations that challenges assumptions about where the real constraints lie in legal services.

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When we dug into it, it actually seemed like the amount of value AI was going to have for us at the time wasn't going to be that large. We're talking maybe 10% improvements overall for big law. And there's kind of this tension between not replacing billable hours.

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