Professional services firms are billing clients for hours while privately using AI to slash those same hours — and nobody is talking about it. This panel pulls back the curtain on how consulting and legal firms are actually adopting AI, why junior consultants are bypassing corporate systems to use ChatGPT on their phones, and what that means for confidentiality, talent development, and the future of the billable hour.─────────────────────────────WHAT THIS PANEL COVERS→ Why the legal industry’s billable-hour model “rewards the slow and the stupid” and how value-based pricing is replacing it for commoditized legal products→ How consulting firms are shifting from 100-page PowerPoint deliverables to real-time digital database integrations with private equity clients→ Why confidentiality is the unspoken crisis: smaller firms are routing client data through public LLMs, and junior staff are bypassing corporate AI systems entirely→ The future consulting org chart: from pyramid to diamond shape, with fewer juniors, more seasoned industry experts, and AI handling repetitive analysis→ Why the hiring pipeline is broken — university grades no longer signal competence when theses can be AI-generated, pushing firms toward internship-based evaluation─────────────────────────────PANELISTS🎙 Robin — Moderator🎙 Roland Scherer — Partner, Kearney🎙 Michael Engel — Partner, White & Case🎙 Beata Rosenthal — Partner, Roland Berger🎙 Marina March — Founder, IKAI─────────────────────────────unDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.com─────────────────────────────Tags: AI professional services, consulting, legal tech, billable hours, management consulting, law firm AI, Kearney, White & Case, Roland Berger, confidentiality, AI governance, enterprise AI, talent management, future of work, value-based billing, digital transformation, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF---TRANSCRIPTWe're joining us. This panel is about rewiring and reimagining the enterprise. According to the new rules of AI, as we're getting our AI ready societies together and our AI ready workforce, one of the big sectors is the professional sectors, which is being totally transformed, not only internally, but also for what their clients are demanding of them. On our panel, we have Roland Scherer from Kearney. If you haven't visited their glass house down on the promenade, then you're missing out. We also have Michael Engel from White & Case. We've heard a lot about the legal industry transformation and some of the big case studies around the hiccups with AI have come from the legal industry. And then we have Beata Rosenthal. Did I brutalize that? Okay. All right. Thank you. From Roland Berger. So don't get confused between Roland from Kearney and Roland Berger. And then, of course, we have Marina March from Akai, IKAI. So shall we begin? I know that one of the big, you know, should we start with the legal industry, Michael? Because I know you're ready to talk about what you're seeing internally and externally. Yeah. So adding, I'm being surrounded by consultants, just starting with giving the legal flavor. So what we're seeing as a key trend is AI. When you look at the legal process, it's a lot of drafting and a lot of document creation. So the journey at the moment starts here and you do the first draft of an SBA or an application for an IP trademark registration and so on. And then you get the drafts and then you add, you know, the senior lawyer value. So one of the trends we're seeing is where the journey no longer starts here, but actually with a more refined starting point, so to say. So instead of having a general SBA as a template, you would have now AI tools saying, I want to have a SBA for a software company or SBA of a natural resources company where you have to think about soil combination, et cetera. And the second big trend we're seeing is that clients more and more,