Where agentic AI and a curated, lawyer-directed skeleton meet, and the two kinds of law firm that come out of it.
The closing essay describes the shape of the thing: probabilistic capability held inside deterministic workflows, with curation and fencing acting, in the author's image, as the skeleton that gives the magic muscle something to pull against.
It sketches two archetypes that will coexist rather than compete. The traditional firm that automates part of its work while keeping the professional pyramid intact. And the agile, subscription-priced firm built on agentic workflows, delivering risk assessments and policy work at a speed the hourly model cannot reach.
Its final claim is the one that became our practice: the advantage is not the model, it is a lawyer directing proprietary, reusable components that a client cannot assemble alone.
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