# Collateral Damage Across The Legal Industry Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/above-the-law-thinking-like-a-lawyer-872228/collateral-damage-across-the-legal-industry Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/above-the-law-thinking-like-a-lawyer-872228/collateral-damage-across-the-legal-industry.md Podcast: [Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer](https://stenobird.com/podcast/above-the-law-thinking-like-a-lawyer-872228) Published: 2026-07-15T15:15:00+00:00 Episode link: https://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/thinking-like-a-lawyer/2026/07/collateral-damage-across-the-legal-industry Audio file: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/LTN9496874820.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/above-the-law-thinking-like-a-lawyer-872228/episodes/collateral-damage-across-the-legal-industry Duration seconds: 1981 ## Resource From firms to law schools, innocent bystanders take heat. ----- Everyone talks about conflicts and redundancies, but the saddest merger collateral damage is forcing legacy lawyers to go back through the last six months of their time. That's what's happening to the Cadwalader associates as their timekeeping system merges with Hogan Lovells. On the law school side, the University of Chicago unveiled its new AI policy to keep students genuinely learning while still tackling the reality of a future AI-enhanced workflow. But laptops became the collateral damage there, as the new policy bans students from bringing their computers to class at all. And we have a deep dive into Moana.  ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/above-the-law-thinking-like-a-lawyer-872228/episodes/collateral-damage-across-the-legal-industry/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/above-the-law-thinking-like-a-lawyer-872228/collateral-damage-across-the-legal-industry.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.