About an app that logs your day, and selling it to lawyers who bill hourly.
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Yes 68 (60%)Not sure 35 (31%)No 10 (9%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About an app that logs your day, and selling it to lawyers who bill hourly.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
I'm a litigation legal admin - I have been for 25-30 years. I instantly brought this up to an associate, telling them, "Maybe not now, but before you retire, this'll be the norm in the industry."
She had been complaining the day before about having to reconstruct a huge bunch of little 0.1 entries involving e-mails to various individuals in cases. If it could be done automatically, through a local LLM? chef's kiss
Trust me, law is definitely where you want to land this thing.
In all honesty, I have absolutely no negotiating power or decision-making authority for my firm, but it's a big one -- if that's a direction you want to go, can't guaranty I can swing enough weight, but I probably could find you the right people to talk to, give you an introduction.