Ropes & Gray Launches First-Year Associate AI Immersion Pilot with 20% Billable Hours for AI Training
- Significance
- Medium
- Confidence
- Confirmed
Why this matters
Ropes & Gray LLP is testing capability in the open. A meaningful marker of where the firm's capability is heading.
Ropes & Gray launched a US pilot letting first-year associates allocate up to 20% of required billable hours (~400 of 1,900) to AI training, tool evaluation, and workflow co-creation instead of client-billable work, with global rollout to all 16 offices including London underway.
- Significance
- Medium
- Source type
- Trade Press
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