AI Divide in Plaintiff Law: Which Side Are You On?

AI Divide in Plaintiff Law: Which Side Are You On?

3.25.2026

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Every day the gap grows. There are the firms that adopt AI across every workflow and there are the firms that don’t.

Those that do are tripling attorney capacity and resolving cases 60+ days faster. Those that don’t, are not.

If you’re looking to join those that do, here are three proven tactics top plaintiff firms use to successfully embed AI across their entire firm and increase capacity without decreasing quality.

1. Make AI part of your firm’s culture

Technology doesn’t transform firms. People do. Your people are your strongest asset.

The best AI implementation in the world fails if your team isn’t bought in. That’s why the most successful firms don’t just roll out a new tool — they build a belief system around it.

The “why” matters as much as the “how.” Maybe it’s securing justice for more victims. Maybe it’s finally outpacing the better-resourced defense teams across the table.

Whatever it is, that message has to run through everything: onboarding, training, and how you talk about the work every day. This especially applies to hiring.

“AI has put a premium in our culture for people who are willing to learn and try new things,” said James Farrin, founder of North Carolina’s largest plaintiff firm. “With new hires, we try to skew to people who are not threatened by technology.”

2. Remove the choice

Culture gets you buy-in. Process locks it in.

Don’t be afraid to do something controversial. Take a page out of Josh White‘s playbook and make AI mandatory. He did just that when he partnered with Eve, an AI platform for plaintiff firms. Now he’s the founder of the fastest growing plaintiff employment law firm in the country.

“Our goal is to build AI-generated work product into attorney and paralegal workflows as soon as humanly possible,” White said, “to reduce the friction they face.”

When every demand letter, complaint, and discovery response starts in AI rather than ends there, you start to see mind-boggling results.

Map each stage of your litigation lifecycle. Shadow your best people. Find where time is hemorrhaging. Then build AI into those gaps and stop treating it as optional.

3. Let your skeptics become your evangelists

Every firm has them: the attorneys who’ve seen too many “revolutionary” tools come and go. Don’t fight them. Empower them.

Jeffrey Glassman, founder of one of the largest PI firms in the Northeast, gave Eve to his two most cynical senior lawyers first. “Once they saw the power of what it could do, they were floored,” Glassman said. “They ended up becoming the ones who would explain it and show it to the rest of the firm.” Three months later, the entire firm was on board.

The fastest path to firm-wide adoption isn’t a memo or a mandate. It’s showing a skeptic how to produce a medical chronology in 20 minutes instead of 40 hours — and then getting out of the way.

Your Competitors Aren’t Waiting

There’s no universal AI playbook. In the past year, Eve has helped more than 900 plaintiff firms go AI-native. And each one got there differently. How you roll out AI depends on your team, your caseload, and where you’re bleeding time.

But the firms that are winning aren’t waiting to figure it out. They’re building the advantage now.

If you’re ready to do the same, schedule time with Eve to learn how we can help.