Happy Friday!
Four in five postings for emerging legal-tech roles now ask for AI skills.
The same job gets advertised as legal technologist, legal engineer, or practice innovation attorney.
Our Q2 In-House Compensation & Hiring Report, out Tuesday, maps what those roles do and who is hiring for them. Also inside:
- $370,000 median total compensation for General Counsel, plus 13 more in-house roles
- $257,340 for Directors of Legal Operations, with pay split by seniority and company size
- Hiring demand by role, metro area, and top hiring company across 18 metros
- AmLaw 200 partner rates averaging $1,141/hr, on a range that runs $540 to $2,170
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15%
Of large firm lawyers who now describe themselves as dependent on AI to do their job, in a LexisNexis survey.
1 in 4
18 to 24 year olds who have used AI for a legal problem, against 10% of 55 to 64 year olds, in a survey by the UK charity Justice.
$12,930,300,000
What Nvidia is paying for Hugging Face, one of the largest acquisitions it has ever made.
📰 Industry Snapshot
OpenAI is about to make its biggest push yet into the legal industry
Talks with multiple software providers are under way, three months after OpenAI hired Ironclad founder Jason Boehmig. Law firms are the target, after a push to sell the same technology to large enterprises.
New AI laws impose employer duties on hiring and workplace AI
If your team screens candidates with AI, Connecticut wants that disclosed this fall. Colorado, Illinois, California, and New York City each ask for something different.
California passes first-in-the-nation AI rules for lawyers
Every citation verified, every use disclosed to the court, and no delegating the practice of law to a model. Newsom has until about October 12, and doing nothing vetoes it.
Wilson Sonsini licenses LexText for its litigation practice
Backers include former general counsel of OpenAI, Oracle, and Dropbox. The two-year-old platform lands its first named Am Law client, and 250-plus litigators with it.
Stanford launches a legal engineering academy
The two-week residential program will bring approximately 50 attorneys, executives, and other organizational leaders to Stanford University in summer 2027 for intensive training in AI strategy, implementation, governance, and organizational transformation.
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