AI Isn't Fixing Law Firms. It's Exposing How They Actually Work

Law firms often discover that their workflows rely on manual workarounds and undocumented knowledge. AI can accelerate tasks, but lasting value starts by mapping and simplifying how legal work actually moves.

AI Isn't Fixing Law Firms. It's Exposing How They Actually Work
> **Article summary:** AI can accelerate legal work, but it cannot repair fragmented intake, disconnected systems, undocumented processes, or years of manual workarounds. Buster Cox explains why law firms should map and simplify how work actually moves before automating it. Firms buying AI right now are about to learn something they didn't pay for: the work they're trying to automate was never designed. It accumulated. The setup is always the same. A partner comes back from a conference having...