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Welcome to the Law Firm Disrupted, a briefing from Law.com editor Dan Packel that surveys new competitive pressures on law firms and how their managers are coping, plus insights on the tactics and tech employed by would-be disruptors. Have an opinion? Email mehere. Want to be alerted to this dispatch in your inbox every Thursday? Sign uphere.

We’ve seen so many Am Law 200 firms launch AI practices over the last year that we’ve been unable to cover every single launch. In rounding up a string of such announcements earlier this year, my colleague Andrew Maloney found that firm leaders pointing to increased client interest, a surge of AI-related cases hitting courts, a dynamic environment and an overall push toward an “innovation economy” beyond these moves.

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