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Hallucinations, Drift, and Privilege: Three Comic Lessons in Using AI for Law

Artificial intelligence has moved from novelty to necessity in law. It now drafts briefs, reviews discovery, and even suggests courtroom arguments. But most lawyers still struggle to use it wisely. Instead of another...more

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Dr Karen Kahn of Threshold Advisors on Bridging the Cross-Selling Gap - Passle's CMO Series Podcast

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Law firms continue to struggle with getting their lawyers to cross-sell effectively, leaving significant revenue untapped. The good news is that with the right strategic shift, firms can close the gap between their...more

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The Tech Bros Are Wrong About Law's Future, And That's Good News for Real Lawyers

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Silicon Valley thinks it knows how to fix law. Tech founders pitch me their vision weekly: AI-powered law firms where bots negotiate with bots, where marketing algorithms feed cases directly into language models, where human...more

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Baker's Dozen: Building Strong Intergenerational Teams

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In today's rapidly evolving legal landscape, every generation brings something invaluable to the table. For those just starting out, it's about embracing challenges, asking questions, and building a reputation rooted in...more

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Your Firm’s AI Policy Probably Sucks: Why Law Firms Need Education, Not Rules

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Law firms are getting AI adoption backwards. While managing partners draft elaborate policies about which tools lawyers can use and when, associates are already running client documents through ChatGPT on their phones. The...more

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Stop Pretending You're Teaching Judgment: Why Law Firms Are Failing Associates in the AI Era

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Law firms love to talk about developing judgment in their associates. Partners wax poetic about how grinding through document review and drafting routine motions builds the elusive quality that separates good lawyers from...more

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Easy Tools and Techniques for Time Management: How Time Flies!

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“Time flies when you’re having fun.” Unfortunately, time also flies when you aren’t having fun. Between balancing work, birthday parties, family vacations, and your household chores, planning for day-to-day tasks is a task....more

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Real Case, Altered Quote: Yet Another AI Trap for Lawyers

Most of the headlines about AI misuse in legal filings involve non-existent cases hallucinated by AI systems used in brief writing without cite checking. Attorneys relying on generative AI systems have been sanctioned after...more

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What Is Ambient AI and Why Does It Matter to Lawyers & Legal Professionals?

What is ambient AI, and why does it matter to lawyers, law firms, and legal marketing and business development professionals? In this episode of Legal Marketing Minutes, I define ambient AI in clear terms and explain how...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

How Is GenAI Changing Legal Workflows?

Orrick’s Zac Padgett sat down with lawyer-turned-consultant R.C. Rondero De Mosier to discuss GenAI adoption in the legal field and how lawyers can unlock the value of it. Learn about: Aligning incentives to drive AI...more

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Staying Curious: One Practical Defense Against Creative Burnout

In the high-stakes convergence of business, technology and law, creative burnout isn’t just an individual challenge—it’s a systemic risk. The relentless push for efficiency, digital acceleration and hyperspecialization can...more

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AI Hallucinations Are Destroying Legal Careers: Here's How to Fight Back

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Lawyers are getting sanctioned for AI-generated fiction masquerading as legal research. The most infamous case, Mata v. Avianca in New York federal court, saw attorneys submit a brief containing six completely fictional...more

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From Prompters to Partners: The Rise of Agentic AI in Law and Professional Practice

Introduction: Beyond the Prompt Era - The legal profession is undergoing a profound shift. For decades, the integration of computing in law was incremental—word processors, databases, legal research platforms....more

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5 Signs Your B2B Law Firm Content is Invisible to AI Search (And What to Do About It)

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Your corporate law firm’s website dominates Google for relevant terms like “securities litigation attorney,” but when a General Counsel asks AI for whistleblower guidance, your decades of expertise might as well be invisible....more

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Why Backlinks Are Essential for Thought Leadership at Your Law Firm

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Your law firm likely aspires to be considered the leading authority in your practice area. The challenge is that with so many people competing for this recognition, it can take time to stand out from the crowd. ...more

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AI Can Improve Great Lawyers—But It Can’t Replace Them

The rise of legal AI has sparked a familiar fear: that our hard-won expertise might be absorbed into machines. That lawyers will be off-loaded—our reasoning encoded, commodified, and reduced to prompts. That we’ll be...more

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Generational Collaboration: The Opportunity For Law Firms In The Age Of AI

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The legal profession is stuck in the past. Most law firms still operate like they did fifty years ago. Senior lawyers assign tasks. Junior lawyers do the tasks. This is the old way....more

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Law Firms Must Prioritize Hiring for Curiosity and Work Ethic in the AI Era

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In today's rapidly evolving legal landscape, artificial intelligence is democratizing execution across the profession. As routine tasks become automated, the qualities that differentiate exceptional legal professionals are...more

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Early Returns Podcast - Oliver Roberts: AI and the Law, and an Education

Jan Baran speaks with Artificial Intelligence (AI) legal expert. lawyer and teacher, Oliver Roberts, to speak about AI, its birth, its forms, and how people have historically used and are currently using the ever-changing...more

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A Survival Roadmap For Lawyers and Law Firms In The Age of AI

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Last week, I had the opportunity to spend time with Cain Elliott, Chief Legal Futurist at Filevine. Our conversation was both inspiring and jarring. He walked into the room and asked a question that every law firm, lawyer,...more

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What Will Lawyers Do in the Future?

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Disruption is not on the horizon. It is already here. From generative AI and automation to shifting client expectations and the commodification of legal knowledge, the legal industry is undergoing rapid transformation. This...more

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[Webinar] Generative AI and the Future of Professionals - May 15th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

Already, legal professionals across the industry are beginning to use generative AI. But now, it's time to take the next step to think about GenAI strategically: What does its introduction mean for my own career and the...more

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Don’t be Kodak: A Parable About AI and the Legal Profession

I was speaking to Jack, an old friend and senior partner at a national law firm, late one afternoon. Our topic was how GenAI technology could handle a wide variety of litigation tasks in seconds—work that would otherwise...more

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Mastering Virtual Questions: Practical Tips for Successful Remote Depositions

Remote depositions took hold during COVID and continue to be common; one study conducted in 2021 found that while 87 percent of lawyers rarely or never participated in remote depositions before COVID, 83 percent expected to...more

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High Rates, Low Hours: The Future of Law Will Break Your Business Model

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For decades, law firm financial models have been built on a simple premise: people doing lots of work. The industry has functioned on the billable hour, where time is directly equated with money. It has become a universal...more

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