Inside Crosby: The 'Neo-Firm' Blending Lawyers and Engineers for AI-Era Legal Work
graceisford · x · 2026-07-31
The author spent two weeks embedded in Crosby, a "neo-firm" that operates with a 50/50 split of lawyers and engineers, taking on end-to-end legal work and owning liability.
Crosby handles contracts for major tech companies like Ramp, Cursor, and Cognition. The deep-dive field study explores how the firm solves unverifiable problems in law and examines the evolving role of "misfit lawyers" as AI and engineering integrate deeply into traditional legal workflows.
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