AI Won't Kill the Law Firm Apprenticeship Model—It Can Fix It
hoofnagle · x · 2026-09-04
Writing in Law.com, Wayne and Caren Stacy argue that a good AI workflow is more than automation: it makes a firm's accumulated expertise visible—how senior lawyers approach recurring problems, the questions they ask, the sources they trust, the sequence they follow, and the moments when experience says pause and exercise judgment. AI can encode partners' tacit knowledge into structured workflows, repairing rather than replacing the apprenticeship model.
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