Anushka Patil
December 23, 2025
The Assembly Line Law Firm: How AI, CLM, and SEO Are Reordering Legal Work
Law is no longer a hand-stitched craft; it’s an assembly line humming in the background of every deal. This piece explores how automation and AI are quietly standardizing legal work, eroding the billable hour, and redefining the lawyer’s real value as judgment, not drafting. In the tension between workflow and wisdom, it argues, the future belongs to those who use machines to clear the noise so human minds can focus on the hard problems.
















