Collateral Damage Across The Legal Industry

Collateral Damage Across The Legal Industry

July 15, 2026 · 33 min · Season 1 · Episode 473

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The episode discusses the collateral damage caused by mergers in the legal industry and new AI policies in law schools.

From firms to law schools, innocent bystanders take heat. ----- Everyone talks about conflicts and redundancies, but the saddest merger collateral damage is forcing legacy lawyers to go back through the last six months of their time. That's what's happening to the Cadwalader associates as their timekeeping system merges with Hogan Lovells. On the law school side, the University of Chicago unveiled its new AI policy to keep students genuinely learning while still tackling the reality of a future AI-enhanced workflow. But laptops became the collateral damage there, as the new policy bans students from bringing their computers to class at all. And we have a deep dive into Moana. 

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