{"id":98694,"date":"2026-06-18T13:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T17:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=98694"},"modified":"2026-06-18T13:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T17:29:10","slug":"the-unbundling-of-lawyer-institutions-furlong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2026\/06\/18\/the-unbundling-of-lawyer-institutions-furlong\/","title":{"rendered":"The unbundling of lawyer institutions [Furlong]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jordanfurlong.substack.com\/p\/the-unbundling-of-lawyer-institutions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The unbundling of lawyer institutions<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from jordanfurlong.substack.com by Jordan Furlong<br \/>\n<em>AI will strip law firms and law schools of their commodity features. Their future depends on whether they can rebuild around their highest-value functions and their trust-bearing core.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Two very different articles \u2014 one from a law professor, one from a legal technology analyst \u2014 crossed my desk last month. They each say something really important about law schools and law firms, respectively. But taken together, they point us towards what I think is an even more profound reality about lawyer institutions in the post-AI world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">At his eponymous Substack, Professor Michael Plaxton\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/michaelplaxton.substack.com\/p\/to-our-next-law-dean\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To Our Next Law Dean<\/a>\u201d is really addressed to every dean of every law school, asking: After AI, how will you justify our existence? His concern is that AI is rapidly learning to perform many of the tasks law schools train students to do, and to deliver much of the general legal knowledge law schools provide at scale, including research, writing, analysis, and explanation.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nAt Legal Technology Hub, Nikki Shaver\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.legaltechnologyhub.com\/contents\/law-firms-want-to-change;-they-just-cant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Law Firms Want to Change; They Just Can\u2019t<\/a>\u201d asks whether law firms are capable of managing the transition to a post-AI legal market.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Law schools and law firms are the legal profession\u2019s most important institutions. But they were built for a world in which legal intelligence was scarce, and that world is rapidly passing away.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unbundling of lawyer institutions\u00a0&#8212; from jordanfurlong.substack.com by Jordan Furlong AI will strip law firms and law schools of their commodity features. Their future depends on whether they can rebuild around their highest-value functions and their trust-bearing core. 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