Stop The Clock: How The AI Law Firm Moves From Billable Hours to Value-Based Pricing (häftad, eng)

The clock is running out on the billable hour. AIcan now do in minutes what used to take a junior lawyer hours. Clients know it. Your competitors know it. And somewhere in your firm, a partner is quietlywondering why the technology budget keeps climbing while recorded time – andrevenue – keeps falling.

Thatis the trap. AI is not free magic. It carries costs, risks, and consequences,and it exposes an uncomfortable truth the profession has dodged for decades:clients were never really buying your hours… they were buying outcomes. Theproblem solved, the risk removed, the deal done, and the certainty that someonewith judgment had their back.

Stop The Clock is a practical, refreshingly honest guide topricing legal work in an AI-enabled world. Built around the 8 P Point Plan, itshows firm leaders how to move from selling time to selling value, without thehype, jargon, or consultant-speak. Youwill learn how to spot the efficiency trap, build the case for change, win overthe Naysayers, price by value rather than discount by panic, and explain yourworth to clients in language they actually care about.

Throughout, you willmeet Shingles & Co., the firm clinging to old habits, and discover why“which tool should we buy?” is entirely the wrong question. Thisis not a book about prompts or tools. It is a book about pricing, value andcommercial survival. Along the way, you will confront the questions most firmsare avoiding:IfAI hollows out the junior work, where does the next generation of judgment comefrom – or are you quietly asset-stripping your own future?Whenthe pyramid stops adding up, who buys the junior partners out in twenty years?Areyou measuring return on your AI spend at all, or just buying tools becauseeveryone else is?Whatcan you honestly tell a client about how AI touched their matter, before theyask?Thebook also includes:AnAIPricing Canvas worked through across more than twenty practiceareas – from family law to tax to agricultural succession Amanaging partner’s implementation checklistWords With The Wise – interviews with 17 leading voicesin law, technology, pricing and behavioural science.

Thetools are changing. The only question left is whether your business model willchange with them. Stop selling the hours. Start selling the outcome. **About the author: Shaun Jardine is a former equity partner and law firm CEO, founder ofthe legal consultancy Big Yellow Penguin, and the author of Ditch the Billable Hour! ImplementingValue-Based Pricing in a Law Firm and Ditch & Switch: 50 Value-BasedPricing Examples for Law Professionals.

Format	Häftad
Omfång	326 sidor
Språk	Engelska
Förlag	Hawksmoor Publishing
Utgivningsdatum	2026-07-31
ISBN	9781918612073