A $500 million headline draws attention like a thunderclap. So, when Kirkland & Ellis, the highest-grossing law firm in the world, announced it is building its own AI platform, the legal press called it audacious, a watershed, and the opening salvo in a new arms race. Measured against the firm’s own revenue, however, it is a careful, even conservative bet — and that gap holds the real lesson for the rest of us
