The alternative is competency-based assessment: giving candidates a structured, realistic sample of the actual work before the offer, and evaluating the output, not the presentation. Can they draft the document accurately. Can they spot the calendaring error. Can they navigate the platform they claimed. Twenty minutes of demonstrated work tells you more than two hours of conversation, and it tells you before the payroll starts, not after.

AI does not make a big firm slightly faster. It collapses the cost of the work small firms have always used to compete. The research memo that took an associate six hours. The first draft that took an afternoon. The document review that justified the bill. When a competitor produces that work in a fraction of the time, they can charge less, take more matters, and respond to clients faster, all at once.

Clients tell you things under privilege that they would not tell their own families. One breach does not just leak data; it breaks the promise the whole profession is built on. A stolen client file cannot be un-stolen, and a client who learns their information walked out your door does not care whose fault the technology was.

Imprint Insight Ask ten consultants what it costs to start a law firm and you will get ten numbers, most of them pulled from thin air. Having built the operational side of firms from the ground up, including a full practice management implementation from an empty database, I can tell you the honest answer: it

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