On how to avoid the trust cost, the senior squeeze and slop grenades
Markus Gammelgaard Klokhøj
Legal Tech Community, 8 October 2026
The draft took seconds. The assignment has barely started.
The productivity trap
Cheaper to propose a change. No cheaper to agree.
A fake case is easy to catch. A real case, wrongly summarised, is not.
From deterministic to probabilistic software
Verification moves from the rules to every answer.
Value = productivity value−technology and implementation costs
The draft got faster. What happened to review?
Saved per matter
Trust cost = incremental assurance cost+residual expected loss
low stakeshigh stakes
“We expect our external advisers to use AI where it increases quality or efficiency, and that some of that efficiency gain is also reflected in the price.”Marcus Glimberg, Associate General Counsel, Spotify
The senior squeeze
Attention does not scale. Responsibility does not shrink.
Has AI created real operating value? Who captures that value?
Legal is the fastest-growing group on Codex
Weekly enterprise users by job title, February to June 2026.
Paul Cravath
A system for trusted legal work at scale.
The Cravath pyramid
AI automates the base, where the profit and the future partners come from.
A new pyramid
Scale production without losing trust.
New pressure on legal services
Value shifts from production to assurance and accountability.
The next generation
What law students use AI for.
The higher the stakes, the less they rely on it.
Building a sustainable system
Verification at the speed of generation
Example: Flare, a Danish startup.
Stop shifting the cost downstream
The slop grenade.
If AI writes the first draft, redesign the apprenticeship.
Create more value
Match assurance to the stakes.