Don’t settle for 2022’s value in 2026.
Most law firms aren’t passing along the quality gains and cost savings that AI makes possible.
With an AI-savvy senior lawyer at the helm, AI now outperforms the vast majority of human associates. But law firms continue to charge for teams of associates, and even paralegals and secretaries.
And because most law firms charge by the hour, their lawyers are disincentivized from capturing AI’s productivity gains.
Traditional firms are not passing AI’s savings on to clients. In a 2025 Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession study of AmLaw100 firms, one interviewee said that AI’s increased value “will likely be captured/built into higher rates.” Another said, “Even with our AI initiatives, we just brought in the largest associate class in the history of the firm.”
Anyone paying 2022’s rates in 2026 is being gouged.
Those clients also give up the quality gains AI provides. A lawyer who does not use AI, or does not use it well, risks leaving sloppy mistakes in a filing and missing an important aspect of the issue that AI would have flagged.
A law firm that does things the old way is charging a higher price for lower quality.
Showalter PLLC is the answer. Michael Showalter built the country’s first AI-native appellate practice, and perhaps no firm has gone further in using AI to cut what clients pay for high-end legal work. We represent Fortune 500 companies, trade associations and industry groups, and ordinary middle-class Americans.
“Among the best legal writers I’ve worked with at Gibson Dunn.”
With robots on the team, we catch mistakes, find obscure cases, and canvass the arguments to a degree that was impossible five years ago.
For the filing that cannot go wrong, hire Showalter PLLC. Even if another firm is on the case, Showalter PLLC should be retained to, at minimum, conduct a cross-check. Our senior lawyers trained at the country’s top firms, and they use AI at a level few firms can match: having an AI subscription is not the same as knowing how to use it. Even the best lawyer in the world is a fallible human being, and firms without Showalter PLLC’s AI workflows will not catch mistakes or overlooked arguments to the same degree.
Working with your existing law firmShowalter PLLC is able to achieve this quality at previously unthinkable rates by using AI as its secretary, librarian, paralegal, and team of associates.
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Litigation & Appeals
Michael leads the firm's litigation and appellate practice, handling federal and state appeals, complex commercial litigation, amicus briefs, and legal analysis and predictive assessment.
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Corporate & Transactional
Chandler leads the firm's corporate and transactional practice, advising businesses, founders, investors, and boards on mergers and acquisitions, strategic transactions, commercial contracts, securities, and corporate governance.
“Mike is among the best legal writers I've worked with at Gibson Dunn.”
Nick Harper
Appellate Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
“Showalter PLLC's seamless drafting process, clear communication, and early delivery of the completed brief turned a high-pressure amicus filing into a stress-free experience.”
Joanna Mallers
Secretary, PTG Markets
“As the author of Point Made and a trainer for federal judges, I've spent decades analyzing what makes legal writing shine. Michael Showalter's writing has the discipline, clarity, and confidence of the nation's very best advocates.”
Ross Guberman
Founder and CEO, BriefCatch
Led by Michael J. Showalter
Federal and state appeals at all stages, from issue preservation through merits briefing and oral argument.
Trial-court representation in contract, business-tort, and other complex disputes.
U.S. Supreme Court and federal court of appeals amicus work for trade associations, public-interest organizations, and aligned parties.
Written analysis of hard questions of law: pre-suit memoranda, opinions on unsettled issues, and a candid read on how a court is likely to come out.
Led by Chandler R. Harris
Acquisitions, divestitures, and other strategic transactions for buyers, sellers, founders, and investors.
Investments, add-ons, joint ventures, portfolio-company work, and exits.
Discrete contract projects and recurring commercial relationships, from NDAs to SaaS and supply agreements.
Offerings, Exchange Act reporting, proxy disclosure, and transaction-related securities advice.
Practical counsel for boards, founders, investors, and public and private companies.
Ongoing senior legal support without a full-time in-house hire.
Litigation, appellate, and M&A matters are priced at one half of any standard-rate quote from an AmLaw 100 firm. Other corporate and transactional work is quoted as a flat fee for a defined scope.
Pricing
How pricing worksThe lawyers develop the strategy, verify every citation, and own every sentence. AI handles the research, first drafts, and comparison work that firms traditionally staff with junior lawyers.
How we work
Our approachAI training for legal teams is offered through Showalter AI Consulting, a separate company that does not provide legal services.
AI Workshops
Learn moreThe cost of elite legal representation has collapsed, and Showalter PLLC is on a mission to ensure that Americans benefit. AI is the most powerful cost-reducing technology the legal profession has ever seen, and using it responsibly can make excellent representation available to people and causes that could never afford traditional elite-firm rates. Michael Showalter has petitioned the profession’s regulators and the courts to help make that a reality.
Our work on access to justiceAsks the ABA to encourage responsible AI use to reduce legal expense and expand access to justice.
Petition · ABA Standing Committee
Asks the D.C. Bar to encourage responsible AI use without a stricter standard for AI-assisted errors.
Petition · Legal Ethics Committee
Endorses proposed LEO 1902 and asks for no heightened ethical standard for AI-related errors.
Comment · Proposed LEO 1902
Opposes proposed Rule 46.5(B)(4): certify that citations are accurate, not that a human checked them.
Comment · Proposed Rule 46.5(B)(4)
The firm handles Litigation & Appeals and Corporate & Transactional matters, including appellate representation, complex commercial litigation, mergers and acquisitions, commercial contracts, securities advice, and corporate governance.
Our servicesYes. For legal work that cannot go wrong, we cross-check your law firm’s work before anything is filed or any decision is made. For everyday work, we do the drafting your law firm would staff to associates, at a much lower price and much higher quality.
Working with your existing law firmShowalter PLLC prices legal work the way clients would design it: a fixed price for a defined scope.
How pricing worksEvery argument, factual assertion, and strategic recommendation is controlled and owned by the lawyers.
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