Matt Levine
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4,099 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6d ago
Matt Levine’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like Financial Times story this week about like all the big banks are like.
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I mean, this is like this is like a general thing, is like every company is putting pressure on all of its service providers, like it's like professional services firms, to cut prices because they can use AI.
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And so like if you hire consultants or you hire investment bankers, you're like
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You don't need an army of people to do this stuff.
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You have AI do it, so like charge us lower rates.
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Right.
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But with law firms, I think it's really interesting because law firms bill by the hour.
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Right.
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And
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And AI saves you time.
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But like I think it's particularly interesting, and I wrote about this, is like
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Law firms kind of fake bill by the hour.
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Like they bill by the hour, but like
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The way a like law firm partner makes money is not by billing out her time,
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it's by like having an army of associates who work for her and billing out their time.
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Right.
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And so like And then paying them
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and paying them less than their hourly rate.
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Well, she gets more than her hourly rate.
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And like what's happening there is not like companies are like, oh, I want to hire associates and the only way I can hire associates is through this law firm partner.
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