{"id":318559,"date":"2025-11-30T12:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T12:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/318559\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T12:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T12:36:08","slug":"non-partner-fee-earners-rise-amid-increased-ai-use-law-partnership-survey-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/318559\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-partner fee-earners rise amid increased AI use, Law Partnership Survey shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers at Allens now have a choice of around half a dozen AI tools to speed up their legal work, but far from cutting the number of staff required, the firm has boosted fee-earner numbers to a record high.<\/p>\n<p>The rise in non-partner fee-earners at Allens, replicated at the majority of firms surveyed in the second-half edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/topic\/law-partnership-survey-1n2v\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian Financial Review Law Partnership Survey<\/a>, suggests that the more artificial intelligence is used within a law firm, the more lawyers are needed to vet the technology\u2019s outputs.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lawyers at Allens now have a choice of around half a dozen AI tools to speed up their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-318559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}