David Fox upended the legal industry once before. He hopes to do it again.  The longtime dealmaker is credited with devising the playbook that helped make Kirkland & Ellis the biggest law firm in the world. His new pursuit could one day put him in competition with Kirkland and its peers.  Fox, 68, co-founded a software company, Irving Technology, that is powering a newly launched law firm, called Irving, which employs only a handful of lawyers and primarily relies on artificial intelligence.  “I hope I have one more revolution left in me,” Fox said in an interview.  Fox believes Irving—and…

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