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Once a month I take myself off to a barn between Shrewsbury and Whitchurch. Part husband break, part catching up, mostly rest. The case for stepping away isn't that you come back faster. It is that you don't arrive at Thursday having quietly become worse at your job. So could a law firm run a four-day week without stalling its matters? Of course it could. Nothing in litigation moves faster than a ward round. What stops it isn't the work — and a hospital ward showed me exactly

T3PS Legal Dynamics · Series 1: The Billable Hour Under Siege · Refreshed June 2026 There is a moment in every transformational technology adoption when the organisation deploying the tool suddenly realises that the tool works against the way it gets paid. The legal profession has reached that moment. Quietly, uncomfortably, and with considerable reluctance, law firms across the UK and beyond are grappling with what I have come to call the AI efficiency paradox: the better yo