Rimon Managing Partner Juan Zuniga Featured in Law.com on AI and the Billable Hour

Rimon Law Managing Partner Juan Zuniga was featured in a Law.com analysis exploring how artificial intelligence is reshaping legal work and influencing the future of the billable hour.

In the article, Juan discusses how AI is currently being used at Rimon primarily within transactional practices, including due diligence and contract drafting. He explains that AI can assist with synthesizing large volumes of information and generating initial contract drafts, while senior lawyers remain responsible for review, refinement, and judgment. Juan emphasizes that although AI enables greater efficiency, decisions about billing structures ultimately remain with general counsel, and the billable hour is not disappearing.

Juan also addresses how AI-driven efficiencies may support a gradual expansion of project-based and alternative fee arrangements, particularly where clients seek greater pricing certainty and transparency. He predicts that, aided by AI, the percentage of global law firm revenue derived from alternative fee arrangements could double by 2030, reflecting an incremental shift rather than a fundamental departure from time-based billing.

Coverage can be found here:
Law.com: www.law.com/2026/01/23/the-law-firm-disrupted-one-snapshot-of-how-ai-is-shaking-up-the-billable-hour/

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Rimon, P.C. has 50 offices across five continents. The firm is widely known as being at the vanguard of legal innovation.

The firm has been repeatedly recognized by the Financial Times (FT) as one of North America’s most innovative law firms. Rimon’s Founding Partners were both named “Legal Rebels” by the American Bar Association’s ABA Journal and have spoken on innovations in the practice of law at Harvard and Stanford Law Schools.

Rimon and its lawyers routinely receive numerous awards for excellence, including from Chambers, Legal 500, and Best Lawyers.