Lawyers' “Emergencies” Often Aren’t Real Emergencies
Being a lawyer means you've had a 45-minute emergency about something that was not, by any reasonable definition, an emergency.
Law Clings to Precedent, Stalls Progress in AI Age
This AI era yet again exposes what the legal field rarely admits: we’re masters of precedent, not progress. And that’s exactly the problem.
AI Era Demands Lawyers Face Unprecedented Ethical Dialogue
As for this Era of AI, we need to get honest and start having honest conversations about the fact that this era asks something of us that no generation of lawyers has practiced for.
Risk Lies in Unchanged Workflows, Not AI Contracts
The risk isn’t AI drafting contracts. It’s firms that never redesign their processes and just bolt tech tools onto broken workflows.
Lawyers Must Distinguish Confidence From Correctness, Not Blame AI
The danger isn't AI giving clients bad law per se. It's lawyers who can't tell the difference between confident and correct.
Clients Pay for Judgment, Not Just Legal Knowledge
Clients don't pay for legal knowledge necessarily. They pay for the judgment to know what to do with it.
Lawyers Must Define Their Unique Value Amid AI
The real question isn't whether AI changes legal work. It's whether lawyers use this moment to finally define themselves by what only they can do.
AI Frees Lawyers; Redefining the Lawyer’s Core Role
By some reports, AI is saving lawyers nearly 240 hours a year on research and document review. That time has to go somewhere. The profession has spent decades defining itself by the work AI now does faster. Figuring out what...
AI Frees Junior Lawyers for Higher‑value Work
Before AI, a junior associate might spend most of their week pulling clauses from old deals, reformatting templates, and chasing redlines across 14 email threads. Now that's a quick task. The question is now what they should be doing.
Lawyers' True Value: Asking the Right Questions
AI won't replace lawyers. But it did expose that a lot of what gets billed at $/hr was never really 'thinking.' It was formatting, copy-pasting, and researching things a machine now does in seconds. The real skill is in knowing...