How AI Is Changing Legal Billing and Client Value

About this episode

The episode discusses how AI is transforming legal billing and client communication.

In this Law Practice Podcast fireside chat on “Billing in the Age of AI,” host Jim Calloway is joined by Julie Bays, Director of the Management Assistance Program at the Oklahoma Bar Association, and Wendy Meadows, a family law attorney in Maryland and coaching consultant for small and solo law firms. Together, they discuss how AI is changing the way lawyers think about billing, value, and client communication. The conversation centers on the “efficiency paradox”: when AI helps lawyers comp...

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Host: Jim Calloway

Guests: Julie Bays, Wendy Meadows

Topics covered

• AI in legal billing
• client value
• lawyer efficiency
• client communication
• billing practices

Keywords

• AI
• legal billing
• client value
• efficiency paradox
• lawyers
• communication

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Oklahoma Bar Association

Places: Maryland

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