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The AI Adoption Ladder for Small Law Firms (Start Here, Not There)

If you're running a small law firm, chances are you've felt that creeping pressure to "start doing something with AI."

Maybe it's coming from vendors. Maybe from that LinkedIn post everyone shared. Maybe it's just that internal voice saying, "We can't fall behind."

So you start looking around: Intake? Drafting? Chatbots?

And very quickly, the question becomes not what is possible, but where do we even begin?

Because if you automate the wrong thing too early, you won't just waste time. You'll burn budget, bury your team in new tools, and have nothing to show for it.

AI Myths Debunked

"AI can automate your business."

"AI will 10x your productivity."

"There's this new tool you can just plug in, works out of the box."

Yeah... You've probably heard it all before.

Newsflash: most of the time, it doesn't work.

Not because the AI or the tech is broken... but because the business wasn't ready for it.

The 80/20 Rule of AI Implementation (Most People Get This Wrong)

The companies getting the biggest AI returns aren't the ones with the most AI projects.

They're the ones with the fewest.

While everyone else is trying to "AI-transform" their entire business, smart companies are using the 80/20 rule to identify the single process that's causing 80% of their operational pain, and solving just that one problem first.

The result? They're seeing 10x better ROI because they're going deep instead of wide.