Why AI Won't Fix Your Broken Workflow with John Grant | AI In Practice

AI tools won't solve your overwhelm if your processes are the problem. John Grant is a fourth-generation lawyer turned workflow consultant. He spent a decade in tech before practicing law, and another eleven years helping firms fix how work actually moves. In this conversation, he breaks down the "magical thinking" behind AI adoption, why the real bottleneck is almost never where lawyers think it is, and how speeding up the wrong step actually makes everything worse. He also explains the concepts of "definition of done" and "definition of ready," why legal has an immature relationship with quality assurance, and what courts are already seeing as AI-assisted filings flood systems that aren't built to handle them. 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1RqIrtq... Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆'𝘀 𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁:   / johnegrant   https://agileattorney.com https://greenlinelegal.com 📌 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿: Get the latest news, trends, and tactics in legal AI—straight to your inbox. ➞ join free: https://www.spellbook.legal/newsletter 💎 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸: Draft and review contracts 10x faster ➞ try it free: https://www.spellbook.legal https://www.linkedin.com/company/spel...   / mikewhelanjr     / scottas   𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘀: 0:00 - Introduction 0:42 - Meet John Grant 2:13 - What is Greenline? 3:18 - AI hasn't reduced work 4:30 - The optimism bias and the planning fallacy 6:00 - AI and the last mile problem 7:09 - Output vs. productivity: the developer study 8:06 - Effort is not value 9:21 - Reimagining what value actually means 10:00 - There's only one bottleneck 11:16 - Why improving the wrong step makes things worse 12:10 - AI-assisted pro se filings are flooding courts 13:45 - More but worse vs. less but better 14:00 - Where bottlenecks actually form in legal 15:27 - Legal's immature relationship with quality assurance 16:15 - Quality control is chosen friction 17:21 - Definition of done and definition of ready 18:06 - Failure demand and rework 19:29 - Lawyering is a caregiving profession 22:39 - The board game analogy: multiple ways to lose 23:32 - The Agile Attorney 101 podcast series 25:04 - Takeaway: AI won't solve overwhelm without design 25:38 - Connect with John