AXIOS (Russell Contreras) - AI threatens Big Law's talent pipeline
Artificial intelligence is wiping out some entry-level work that trains the next generation of elite lawyers. Why it matters: Big Law's entire business model depends on armies of junior associates learning on the job. If AI erases that rung, the profession faces a long-term talent crisis. The big picture: The legal profession's most important classroom, the early-career grind of junior and summer associates, is quietly reshaping, as the path to partnership is being rewritten in real-time. - Firms are racing to "extract the knowledge of their lawyers" and embed it in AI workflows, client portals and self-service tools, Stanford Law professor David Freeman Engstrom tells Axios. - That could mean "getting ready for a world in which you…