Kirkland and Ellis's Half Billion Dollar AI Play and Taly Goody on Building a Niche Law Firm
Kirkland and Ellis decided to drop a cool half-billion dollars on a proprietary artificial intelligence platform just to avoid paying third-party licensing fees. They claim it is an assistive tool meant to empower their army of associates, but history proves that when massive corporate empires train data models on their own workers, the ultimate goal is elimination rather than optimization. From unholy tech alliances with Palantir to profit-margin schemes designed to strip human attorneys out of the loop, the highest-grossing law firm in the world is acting like a classic Bond villain trying…
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