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Episode 026 Volunteers and Hostages
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Chad Van Horn built an AI petition review process that cut his firm's amendments by 80 percent. He also thinks AI is making lawyers dumber. Both are true in the same law firm, and figuring out how to hold both truths at once is the whole game. If AI can teach a new associate everything a senior partner knows, what happens to the judgment that only comes from doing the reps yourself?
In this episode:
- How Chad's Claude-built bank statement analyzer replaced his highlighter-and-manual-review process
- The "volunteers, not hostages" approach to rolling AI out across a hundred-person…
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