AI isn't being adopted by law. It's restructuring the profession.
A living essay-and-visualization series on how artificial intelligence is reconfiguring how legal services are delivered, who delivers them, how lawyers are trained, and what professional judgment becomes — read as a system, through many lenses at once.
Seven essays, and the analysis behind them
Each reads the same transformation through a different lens — and each pairs with an interactive visualization.
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Series introduction
Why this series exists, what each of us brings to it, and how AI, complex decision-making, and the structure of the legal profession intersect. Start here.
Read the introduction→16 min
Law is the gateway drug
Law's structural position — at the center of business, connecting every function — makes it the natural entry point for AI across professional services.
Read essay→10 min
Harvey's strategic evolution
What the most-discussed legal-AI company actually appears to be building — and why reading it as a "ChatGPT wrapper" misses the strategic thesis.
Read essay→11 min
Getting your hands dirty
From analyzing the system to experiencing it — what it actually feels like to work with AI agents on complex intellectual tasks, and why that gap matters.
Read essay→18 min
The scrambled competitive map
AI is scrambling the competitive map so thoroughly that the old categories of incumbent and challenger no longer hold. The kinds of player on the field.
Read essay→12 min
The training crisis
The four ingredients of good AI outcomes — and why the profession is quietly removing the scarcest one from the production process.
Read essay→10 min
From up or out to up and out
If AI automates the base, where does the top go? Firms moving upmarket aren't heading for unoccupied territory — and the ladder is collapsing behind them.
Read essay→11 min