Everyone says AI will kill litigation. They have it backwards. AI is about to make litigation explode. For 100 years, American litigation has been limited by one thing. The hourly rate. A breach of contract worth $40,000? The lawyer wants $25,000 to fight it. You settle for $12,000 and call it a win. A customer stiffs you for $8,000? Not worth the demand letter. You eat it. A former employee walks off with your client list? Your lawyer says "we can send something, but the motion practice alone will run you $30,000." You let it go. That is how most American disputes end. Not in court. In a spreadsheet, where someone decides the fight costs more than the loss. Now change one number. A demand letter that billed 4 hours now takes 4 minutes. A motion to dismiss that cost $15,000 in associate time now costs $15 in compute. A 60 page discovery response that took a paralegal two weeks lands in your inbox by 7 a.m. What happens to the spreadsheet? Every "not worth it" flips to "why not." Economists have a name for this. Jevons paradox. In the 1860s, steam engines got more efficient. Everyone expected Britain to burn less coal. Britain burned more. Cheaper power meant more factories, more railways, more uses nobody had planned for. Bandwidth got cheap. We didn't send fewer emails. We built Netflix. Legal drafting gets cheap. People will not fight less. They will fight more. And here's the twist nobody is talking about. Not all legal work moves the same way. Cooperative work shrinks. Both sides want the same standard NDA, AI hands it over in 60 seconds, the deal closes. That market dies. Adversarial work grows. The moment your opponent has AI, every filing they send forces a bigger reply from you. Every motion breeds a cross motion. There is no ceiling on an arms race. Then it all hits a wall. AI can 10x the filings. It cannot 10x the judges. Federal courts already have cases waiting years for trial. State courts are worse. So picture it. Ten times the motions. The same number of judges. Clerks drowning. Dockets that stretch into the next decade. Something breaks. I don't know what. But it won't be boring. If you're a young litigator, here's what that means for you. The paperwork was never going to be your career. The machine has that now. The growth is in the fight. Learn to take a deposition. Learn to find the hole in a 60 page brief that a machine wrote in 10 minutes. Learn to stand in front of a judge with 300 cases on her docket and make yours the one she remembers. The machine drafts. Someone still has to win. Make sure it's you.