“创新者”——法律科技传奇

Smyth & Marmalade LLP 是伦敦最古老的律师事务所之一。它也曾经是最赚钱的公司之一。事情发生了多么大的变化啊！ It was far from having fallen upon hard times, but everyone knew it was not what it once was.

Rumours of merger talks spread daily – most of them true. Key partners were jumping ship to the far more remunerative UK outposts of the New York elite. While for the first time in their recent history they had not immediately met the same annual pay rises for associates that their peers had chosen.

And then, just when its managing partner, Timothy Marks, had felt he was going to get through it all and successfully complete the last year of his four-year term – which would lead to his blissful retirement, a house in Tuscany, and the overconsumption of fine Chianti – along came AI in full force.

就不能再等一年吗！？ Ever since he could remember people had been talking about AI, the ‘end of lawyers’, and the whole rotten chimera of computers doing his job. But, now – so he had been told far too many times – it was real at last. This monster from Silicon Valley had come for their billable hours, like a modern-day Grendel come to devour the good people of Heorot.

‘AI, AI, AI’ – it sounded like the death rattle of a wounded animal, Timothy often thought, like something out of a David Attenborough documentary showing a desperate antelope brought down by a pack of hyenas.他能听到那些矛盾而悦耳的音调描述着这一切。

The image came back to him again as he marched along the 14 floor of the building that the firm had occupied for far too long, on his way to the most important ExComm meeting of his tenure. He was followed closely by Debbie, his primary assistant, and then Jasper, the new assistant to his assistant.

“先生，您想让我告诉他们您迟到了吗？”黛比问道，此时她正站在他面前，在充满艺术气息的走廊里。

蒂莫西意识到他不知何故停了下来。

“不，我们……必须……”

“蒂姆……先生？”

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