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Your Attorney Is Using ChatGPT and Charging You $400 an Hour On lawyers, language models, and what happens when you try to pay your retainer in Polkadot Let's have a frank conversation about your attorney. Not your attorney specifically — perish the thought — but the general category of person who passed one very long multiple-choice exam, hung a sign, and is now billing you $400 an hour to have a chatbot draft your LLC operating agreement. Welcome to the modern American legal system, where the fox is not merely guarding the henhouse ; the fox has subscribed to an AI platform and is monetizing the chickens at a premium rate. The dirty secret of small private practice is that most non-legacy attorneys are operating without the gilded infrastructure of BigLaw . No paralegal army. No secretary who quietly fixes their grammar. No $800-a-month legal research database keeping them current on case law . Westlaw and LexisNexis charge fees that would make a h...