As I have mentioned in the past, it seems to be taking an inordinate amount of time for me to get through my countdown of the top ten posts on my blog in 2024. Nonetheless, I have finally reached the end of this countdown, even if I am a little late across the finish line on it, given that it is modeled on the old end of the year countdowns of hit songs radio stations used to do at the end of the year (and would typically finish on January 1 of a given year and not, as with this countdown, on March 2).

There is a certain irony to how long it has taken to finish this countdown – even though there are good reasons for that – because, of all things, the most popular post on this blog in 2024 was actually a post I wrote in June of 2023, in which I discussed why generative AI was more likely to increase, not decrease, the amount of legal work and corresponding legal bills that complex transactions and litigation produce. Why is that likely to be the case? Because history tells us that increased technological capabilities in the law just lead to more complicated deals and lawsuits, and with them bigger bills. And the news that some partners at Quinn Emanuel now bill $3,000 an hour and that consulting behemoth KPMG just launched its tech driven law practice, just seems to confirm my prediction.

And with that, here is the most read post of 2024 on this blog, “Why Do Law Firms (And Their Bills) Get Bigger the More Efficient They Become? And What Does That Foretell About the Use in Law Firms of Generative AI?“