B
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74%
74% -- automatable share of hourly billable work for law firms (2026)
Tasks such as information gathering and data analysis account for up to 74% of hourly billable work and could be automated with modern technology.
- Represents 'up to 74%' of tasks that could be automated
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74%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
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Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Clio
Primary
Tier C
https://americanretrieval.com/blog/6-law-firm-growth-strategies/ ↗
Source Article
6 Law Firm Growth Strategies
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Clio
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Cited from Clio's Legal Trends Report via secondary blog
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law firms: 74% automatable share of hourly billable work. Source: Clio (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/billable-work-automatable-clio
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