Harvey has replaced any need I have to work with students or juniors. I feel bad for them and I’m sure I’m next, but damn.
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My office (NYC) has installed new panopticon film on office doors. There is helpful “anti-distraction” tint on the inside, and see-through tint on the outside to “foster a collaborative environment.” Is this happening elsewhere? Everyone in my group is busy, and firm laptops already have plenty of spy bloatware. Is the extra surveillance really necessary?
How does working reduced hours at a v10 actually work? You don’t need to respond to emails Friday - Monday? Someone else from the team is just happy to always take over when you’re out? Kind of seems like a hack to get 60% SA salary and work less but cant see how it actually works without risking the pay cut to still work 2000 hours because the team is busy.
Super senior associate (10PQE) just told in no uncertain terms that I have no future at the firm and will not be promoted to counsel/partner. It’s not exactly a situation where I’m being pushed out actively because I broached the topic but clearly it isn’t going to work out for me. Any advice on how to navigate job searching while still needing to do the work?
My juniors suck so much that it’s actually affecting my mental health. I’m annualizing 2700 and have zero help except first years who give zero fucks to accept feedback or take instructions. I’ve been asking for more help for months and keep getting told everyone is crushed. Just want to curl up and cry.
Can Harvey make a mid level or a senior? How will you get them?
There is significant tension in law firms about everyone’s roles and where energy should be expended re mentoring and training vs client service and billable hours. I think they are aligned and you need to properly train and mentor lawyers to provide the best client service, but I have been shouted down in many a partner meeting by folks who think otherwise, saying that is not their job. Their job is to serve the client. The juniors need to figure out how to best serve them to serve the client. They don’t have hours in the day for hand holding. To be fair, that’s a more factual argument in less leveraged practices where they are partner heavy and only have a handful of associates because, ideally, most mentoring comes from someone 1-2 class years ahead. Most partners haven’t done junior associate tasks in too long to to do or teach them efficiently and are also terrible people managers.
Practice area?
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Harvey and other so called AI will likely do the same thing to law firms as what use of email, the MS suite and the internet did back in the day. It will further reduce paralegal and support jobs and increase profitability by replacing expensive human labor with cheaper machine labor. Law firms used to have two paralegals for every attorney and now it’s far less and the firms are doing very well.
Also, for what it’s worth, just got an invite from Mercor asking me to train an AI to do senior level work. I signed up to do work for them on other stuff when I took a break from big law before going in house. I don’t think any of us should think we are safe. They know Senior level work is an area of opportunity for them.
Can Harvey track hundreds of emails, tell which ones we need to address, ask me a few questions, and then respond?
But I’m incredibly reliant on the 50 percent that can