The 80/20 Principle

The 80/20 Principle

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Legal tech has been here before — and the lawyers who learned early came out way ahead.

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Ernie the Attorney
May 15, 2026
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In the early days of Westlaw and Lexis, computerized legal research was expensive. Only big firms could afford it.

But even those firms had to be careful. It was easy to run up a big bill and come back empty-handed. You couldn’t pass that cost to the client. The whole thing felt precarious.

Enter the West attorneys

Westlaw’s solution was to put attorneys o…

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