CEOs are telling their Chief Legal Officers to cut outside counsel fees by 40 or 50 percent in the Age of AI. Here is how to lead that conversation.

We founded PAG Law on two pillars — culture and technology — designed to deliver elite legal counsel at a great value. In the AI era, that model is more valuable than ever.

Arthur C. Brooks draws a distinction that I find myself returning to often. Complicated problems, he says, can be solved with enough computational horsepower. They have answers.

Lawyers are not happy. That is not a provocation — it is what the data consistently show. A 2024 Bloomberg Law survey of more than a thousand legal professionals found that attorneys reported feeling burned out 42% of the time.

Everyone assumes AI is bad news for lawyers. Fewer hours per matter, less work to go around, clients who can generate a first draft themselves before they ever pick up the phone.

The anxiety is everywhere in legal circles right now. If AI can produce a first draft of a contract, a due diligence memo, or a research summary in seconds, what exactly is the apprenticeship path for a young lawyer?

The posts keep coming. "AI will replace lawyers." Sometimes it's a warning, sometimes barely concealed delight. And maybe eventually, in some narrow sense, it will.