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ON-DEMAND WEBINAR // Beyond the Billable Hour
Beyond the Billable Hour: AI and the Future of Legal Services.
For more than a century, the billable hour has been the cornerstone of how legal services are scoped, priced and justified. Yet the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence and advanced legal technologies is fundamentally challenging the premise that legal value should be measured primarily through elapsed human time.
In this on-demand panel discussion, leading legal practitioners and industry experts examine how automation, analytics and AI-driven workflows are redefining productivity, prompting clients to question traditional time-based charging models. They explore the growing strategic tension facing law firms and in-house legal teams: how to preserve profitability, manage risk and demonstrate value when efficiency no longer correlates neatly with revenue.
Drawing on perspectives from private practice, in-house leadership and legal technology, the panel considers whether the billable hour can be meaningfully adapted for an AI-enabled legal economy or whether the profession is approaching a more fundamental commercial and structural realignment. The discussion explores how AI is reshaping long-held assumptions around value, expertise, accountability and the role of legal professionals.
Designed for managing partners, practice leads, general counsel and senior legal operations leaders, this recording moves beyond theory to examine the practical, commercial and governance implications of emerging delivery and pricing models in the UK and beyond.
Topics covered include:
- Whether time-based billing remains economically and ethically defensible in an era of AI-driven efficiency.
- Where clients are already rejecting the billable hour, and what is driving that behaviour.
- Why alternative fee arrangements often struggle to scale beyond controlled pilots.
- The commercial, pricing, data and advisory capabilities firms must develop to compete effectively.
- Whether firms should evolve the existing model or begin planning for its replacement.
Speakers
Shaun Jardine
Big Yellow Penguin
CEO
Dr Nina Mohadjer, LL.M
Nuix
Legal Consultant & Pre-Sales Engineer
Duncan Fraser
Noticia
Partner
Stewart Vandermark
Nelsons
Chief Executive & Solicitor