If you’ve been watching Arizona’s experiment with non‑lawyer firm ownership, you know it isn’t new—but it just got a lot more interesting for anyone building legal tech. Arizona’s Alternative Business Structure (ABS) regime permanently removed the old fee‑sharing/ownership barrier and lets non‑
A roundup for practitioners of the new orders and ethics opinions on generative AI Generative AI is now part of everyday law practice, but courts are moving faster than many firms to set boundaries. What’s emerging is a patchwork of judge‑specific orders, local rules, and ethics opinions that
What is it and How to Pair a Local SLM with an On‑Demand LLM—Without Losing Control If you’ve been considering “AI for the firm” but don’t want a cloud-based black box freelancing with client confidences, Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) is the pattern to know. In plain
If there’s one thing keeping lawyers up at night about AI, it’s hallucinations. It scares the interns, paralegals, associates, partners, and even the judges. The moment when a model confidently spits out a case that doesn’t exist or a quote no judge ever wrote is simply a
For more than a century, law firms have sold time. Now however, a task that once took 20 hours now takes 4. A memo that consumed two days can be drafted in under an hour. The legal industry’s reliance on hourly billing has run headfirst into a technology that
Clients type sensitive facts and questions into AI tools all the time: “What happens if I…,” “Can I be charged if…,” “Draft an apology to HR about…” Those prompts, the model’s responses, and associated metadata can live in multiple places: on the provider’s servers, in enterprise audit/retention
Most firms don’t need “AI everywhere”—they need targeted help where time is routinely lost and capacity matters: intake triage, document sorting, deadline capture, and first‑pass drafting. To get the most out of AI for your practice, two brains are better than one. The optimal strategy is not
Sometimes you just need a quick and dirty summary of a legal reference. To find out how the major consumer AI chats perform, I tasked ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok with summarizing and analyzing the same case: United States v. Carpenter, 819 F.3d 880 (6th Cir. 2016). This is
The rise of generative AI has given rise to all sorts of fears for the next decade. “Will AI take my job?”, “Will AI get so advanced we won’t need people for any tasks anymore?”, “Is my future daughter going to be dating some clanker?” All of these reasonable
AI is permitted for lawyers in almost every jurisdiction—but all the rules of ethics still apply and the technology makes compliance more than a little complicated. Specifically, the requirements of confidentiality go far beyond just clicking "no training" in your favorite public chat tool. The rules require
How AI will improve everything in your law practice and it starts right now. TL;DR AI won’t replace your sound judgment, but it can make every attorney’s best day more common by shrinking admin time, sharpening research, speeding drafts, and elevating client service. Get ready to 10x
Splashing some Cold Water on the Hype: Privilege, Compliance, and Why Pilots Fail TL;DR The legal duty to protect client information is non‑negotiable and not conducive to reliance on public chatbots. Meanwhile, most enterprise AI pilots aren’t delivering business value. The fix isn't easy. It