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re: The official injury attorneys of the LSU Tigers Dudley Debosier sell out to PE

Posted on 4/21/26 at 9:26 pm to
Posted by OweO
Plaquemine, La
Member since Sep 2009
122197 posts
Posted on 4/21/26 at 9:26 pm to
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But as a client, seeing how PE tends to work, I certainly wouldn't want to get involved with that sort of firm/attorney


I doubt more of their clients understand how it all works.
Posted by jasonbr1975
Lafayette, LA
Member since Sep 2024
2076 posts
Posted on 4/21/26 at 9:29 pm to
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PE running a PI firm just sounds shady as shite.

It was already shady to start with!
Posted by jrobic4
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2011
13299 posts
Posted on 4/21/26 at 9:33 pm to
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as a client, seeing how PE tends to work,


How many PI clients even know what a Private Equity Firm" is?
Posted by lsuconnman
Baton rouge
Member since Feb 2007
5195 posts
Posted on 4/21/26 at 9:42 pm to
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I see HOW you can get around it. But as a client, seeing how PE tends to work, I certainly wouldn't want to get involved with that sort of firm/attorney.


I can see it working great for a firm like Dudley debosier. You have a few key face time partners who effectively franchise the rest of the firm out to PE. They handle the admin staff staffing agency for low level attorneys and the communications and real estate. For that the core partner pay 1/4 of the gross revenue.
Posted by NIH
Member since Aug 2008
122941 posts
Posted on 4/21/26 at 10:11 pm to
Are you saying the associates using ai to communicate with clients are fricked?
Posted by PGAOLDBAWNevahBroke
Member since Oct 2025
435 posts
Posted on 4/21/26 at 11:06 pm to
frick these losers and the visual/audio pollution they bring to Louisiana.

Dweebs
Posted by KiwiHead
Auckland, NZ
Member since Jul 2014
37623 posts
Posted on 4/22/26 at 6:00 am to
Ambulance Chasers gonna chase ambulances.
Posted by jcaz
Laffy
Member since Aug 2014
19304 posts
Posted on 4/22/26 at 6:14 am to
What could go wrong? Except everything for everyday people. PE will be soon paying lobbyists to keep insurance prices up.
Posted by Tarps99
Lafourche Parish
Member since Apr 2017
12739 posts
Posted on 4/22/26 at 6:41 am to
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Regardless of merit, it gives the defense bar more work to do and makes the work more tedious. Cases are now being over litigated.


Then on the flip side you have debt collection attorneys who file short cases with just a statement as evidence and expect the defendants to not show up or file a response and receive a default judgment.
Posted by boosiebadazz
Member since Feb 2008
85685 posts
Posted on 4/22/26 at 7:05 am to
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low information, unskilled plaintiff lawyers (of which there are thousands in Louisiana (and many on this site))


Posted by Giantkiller
the internet.
Member since Sep 2007
25489 posts
Posted on 4/22/26 at 7:10 am to
Where are you noobs coming from? Anybody who’s anybody has known these PI lawyers are pieces of shite for years.
Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
477257 posts
Posted on 4/22/26 at 7:13 am to
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I asked the guy how the next crop of lawyers will learn what to look for and perform the spot checking themselves if AI has replaced that function

Higher IQs

*ETA: and AI
This post was edited on 4/22/26 at 7:14 am
Posted by FliesByNight
Member since Apr 2026
82 posts
Posted on 4/22/26 at 7:15 am to
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but AI can't go to court and can't negotiate with opposing attorneys/parties


lol it absolutely can and will
Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
477257 posts
Posted on 4/22/26 at 7:19 am to
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I can see it working great for a firm like Dudley debosier. You have a few key face time partners who effectively franchise the rest of the firm out to PE. They handle the admin staff staffing agency for low level attorneys and the communications and real estate. For that the core partner pay 1/4 of the gross revenue.


I know these PI firms can be pretty regimented and strict, but I can only imagine what it's going to be like when PE takes over management. The weird part is that PI revenue has nothing to do with time-based billing and I just wonder how that's going to work managing employees who will almost certainly be paid via time-based payments.

As an associate, what's the point of working for the PI firm if you have other options, if you're going to be treated similar to/worse than a hourly-billing contemporary? Just seems like they'll be scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of attorneys, but I guess that could be the plan. They'd save costs and those attorneys won't really be doing anything of note.
Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
477257 posts
Posted on 4/22/26 at 7:20 am to
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lol it absolutely can and will


I don't understand the functional difference in an AI that is given certain parameters to settle a case and, say, an insurance defense attorney given the same parameters by an adjuster.

Hell, I don't do much PI but the few I have dealt with on normal PI cases 100% seemed to be just reading AI prompts
Posted by Tigerlaff
FIGHTING out of the Carencro Sonic
Member since Jan 2010
22782 posts
Posted on 4/22/26 at 7:24 am to
Hey Wall Street, let's talk!
Posted by JohnnyKilroy
Cajun Navy Vice Admiral
Member since Oct 2012
41133 posts
Posted on 4/22/26 at 7:24 am to
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Are you saying the associates using ai to communicate with clients are fricked?


I’m saying that at some point (probably soon) associate hiring will drop off a cliff because AI is good enough to do everything as good or better than any fresh law grad could do.

People thinking law is safe because AI isn’t good enough to replace them today have their heads in the sand. We’re in the first or second inning of this.
Posted by BottomlandBrew
Member since Aug 2010
29916 posts
Posted on 4/22/26 at 7:24 am to
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PE getting involved in law is bad for everyone


PE getting involved in everything is bad for everyone. My business is in several sectors, and PE is ruining all of them. They're locusts, and I have no respect for any owner that sells to PE.

On the flip side, I have gained a good bit of business when competitors are bought by PE and they go to shite.
Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
477257 posts
Posted on 4/22/26 at 7:28 am to
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I’m saying that at some point (probably soon) associate hiring will drop off a cliff because AI is good enough to do everything as good or better than any fresh law grad could do.


This is likely true, but moreso in certain fields.

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People thinking law is safe because AI isn’t good enough to replace them today have their heads in the sand. We’re in the first or second inning of this.

The areas of law more likely to be gutted by AI in time are the more complicated ones at the top of the field. The lowest levels of law are the most insulated from AI.

On this note, something funny I saw the other day along this theme:

Galloway Johnson is doing fricking family law now

Which partner has been reading my posts on this the past few years? Out yourself.
This post was edited on 4/22/26 at 7:29 am
Posted by boosiebadazz
Member since Feb 2008
85685 posts
Posted on 4/22/26 at 7:30 am to
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I’m saying that at some point (probably soon) associate hiring will drop off a cliff because AI is good enough to do everything as good or better than any fresh law grad could do.

People thinking law is safe because AI isn’t good enough to replace them today have their heads in the sand. We’re in the first or second inning of this.


We use some AI products that are tailed-made for plaintiffs’ PI firms, and they are absolutely putting out internal work product that is the quality of what a 4-5 year associate is doing.

We’re actually working on making sure our younger lawyers still get the exposure they need to learn the medicine like we all had to because AI is such a shortcut on it.
This post was edited on 4/22/26 at 7:30 am
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