Raad

founder/ceo @lawtrades. the legal network for the AI economy

[Raad @R44D]

i'm hiring ~1,000 lawyers in the next 90 days to help train frontier AI models.

$100–120/hr. 20–40 hrs/week. remote.

like reviewing a first year's memo, except the first-year is an agent.

interested? reply with your practice area and i'll dm you

[Raad @R44D]

@thesamparr like fancy watches for your face, and the whole collection fits in a drawer

[Raad @R44D]

learned this the hard way. in the early days of lawtrades we did a few million a year in flat fee legal work for startups, and two things kept it from getting bigger.

the first was the rules. a company that isn't a law firm can't sell most legal services, so we were stuck with narrow, repeatable work like trademarks and immigration filings.

the second was people. every flat fee matter still needed a big ops team behind it, so every bit of growth meant more hiring.

AI is fixing the second one, and the first is starting to change state by state.

a firm that makes more money when a matter takes less time was always the right idea, it just took the law and tech a decade to catch up

[Raad @R44D]

@Sony91121271 🖍️ hourly firm + AI = fewer hours to bill = less money

flat fee firm + AI = same fee, less work, room for more clients = more money

[Raad @R44D]

@Sony91121271 🖍️ hourly firm + AI = fewer hours to bill = less money

flat fee firm + AI = same fee, less work, room for more clients = more money

[Raad @R44D]

@SMB_Attorney faster / cheaper is exactly what VCs want to hear and the last thing clients care about

[Raad @R44D]

@VCBrags omg lol

[Raad @R44D]

@theviclaw i think the structure that fits is something like a multi manager hedge fund, pods of lawyers on shared AI and quality control, paid on profit share instead of equity

[Raad @R44D]

an AI-native law firm that has to buy rainmakers to get clients is a regular law firm with better software

[victor @theviclaw]

The entire VC-backed AI-native law firm thesis hinges on "can you pay top lawyers at least $500k+ AND give them significant equity upside AND keep their clients" and that's why it's a bad venture thesis.

[Raad @R44D]

@ClimbngThePole agreed

[Raad @R44D]

@ClimbngThePole i think rainmakers love landing clients and would hate running a firm

[Raad @R44D]

@theviclaw better software and worse comp is a tough recruiting pitch

[Raad @R44D]

@sdbrownlie they can easily afford the software, the slow part is repricing a firm whose bonuses and targets run on hours

[Raad @R44D]

@SMB_Attorney honestly the most reassuring thing about the list is how boring it is

[Raad @R44D]

fable 5.2’s advice for lawyers for the next 10 years

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, designed to tackle the most daunting technical challenges.

They’re capable collaborators on ambitious projects in many fields, and show improvements in areas like coding, reasoning, and vision.

[Raad @R44D]

i think the fastest growing slice of startup legal work will be AI cleanup, like the chatbot drafted IP assignment that looked fine until diligence found what it left out, because the easy work got cheap and the mistakes moved downstream.

[Sam Altman @sama]

ok gl

[Raad @R44D]

@cyrusjohnson @Lawtrades lawyers have been gig workers for centuries, it just used to be called hanging out a shingle

[Raad @R44D]

legal hiring on @Lawtrades tripled in the last 30 days, over the same stretch everyone decided AI was replacing lawyers.

[Raad @R44D]

a $15m revenue company only counts as a zero in fund math, and founders don't have to live inside fund math

[Martin Tobias (Pre-Seed VC) @MartinGTobias]

OH from a GP last night:

“I have a company doing $15m revenue and I can’t raise capital. It is going to be a zero.”

And:

“ triple triple double double doesn’t get the Series A meeting anymore. I want 10-10-5.”

Founders: the bar for follow on capital has never been higher. If you don’t have the outlier traction that others are delivering get to profitability as fast as you can.

And compound some advantage

[Raad @R44D]

@itsbrianscherer @Lawtrades yup

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Let me be blunt. Those who are afraid of AI feel deep down that they are impostors & have no edge. If you have a 1) clear mind, 2) a deep, not just cosmetic, undertanding of your specialty, 3) and/or are original enough to reinvent yourself when needed, AI will be your friend.