Winston Weinberg

And you're building that muscle rather than you're learning anything about the actual law.

And then the second and third year of law school, I think those need to be massively changed because the second and third year of law school, you kind of take like some specialty courses and things like that.

I don't think it's as relevant anymore.

You need a hands on experience, I think, starting then.

So the thing that I would tell law students is actually pretty much the same, which is I think that if you can understand cut like your clients super well and you understand an industry super well, you're going to do

great like ai isn't going to massively impact you if you think that your competitive advantage is you are the best at writing briefs or you are the fastest at doing research or something like that that was never your competitive advantage like i don't think it ever was right and if you look at like the top lawyers who succeed really well

Those are the ones who I think have mastered what you master in the first year of law school, plus understand a business and understand their clients really well.

And I think that that is only going to have a premium, right?

And I think this is going to happen across every single industry where whatever the top things are in that industry are just going to get compounded.

I don't think that those things are not like no longer going to be the top skills.

I think it's just the other skills really don't matter.

Does that make sense?

yeah so it's sort of like slight variations in your skill or your argument will be amplified massively yeah and but your ability to read a room your ability to understand you know it depends on the practice area right like if you're a trial attorney um my sense from the best trial attorneys that i've met is you know a lot of what they're very good at is like coming up with a story that makes sense to a jury right

And I don't see how these models are necessarily gonna make that not relevant anymore, right?

I think that that's still, you have to understand each jury member.

And yes, there's tons of AI you can use to, like, get more data and things like that on what works and A-B tests, et cetera.

But at the end of the day, I think that that's a very human ability to kind of, like, sit in a trial, in a courtroom and understand, ah, I think that, you know, this is the type of, this is the way that I should argue this case that makes the most sense.

And then the same, you know, if you're an M&A attorney, the folks that I've met that are the best deal attorneys, it's like they're not the best at like drafting SPAs or going through diligence rooms or anything like that.

What they're the best at is the two principles, you know, the folk, one person's trying to buy a company, the other one's selling it.

They're really good at, oh, we're arguing about something.