AFAs are great but they don’t mean we can just keep doing what we are doing and calling it a different name.

AI is so different that traditional ROI measurement tools just don’t work. We need new ways.

📍 Who’s Actually Buying LegalTech? *SPOILER. It's not who you think. Most legal tech founders focus their sales efforts on enterprise deals with big law firms. But nearly 80% of buyers are actually small and midsize firms, and too many companies overlook them. In this clip, Stephen Embry and I talk about why that matters, how these firms make buying decisions, and what startups often get wrong when selling into legal. Steve also shares why focusing on this market could actually be easier, and more profitable, than chasing the big firms everyone else is targeting. #LegalTech

Over the past month I have attended more user conferences than I can count. At every single one of them there are presentations and panel discussions

Tech companies that are laser focused on one thing typically do it well because of that focus. NetDocuments isn’t trying to take over the legal tech world.

Clio is no longer a practice management company. It’s much more of a comprehensive provider of all needs of its customers big and small.

Harvey's creators are less concerned about legal tech vendors and more about competition from OpenAI itself.

The world of GenAI: get an answer to anything and everything within seconds. No thinking required: just prompt and go. I’m all about technology and the

AI for plaintiffs' lawyers has perhaps reached a tipping point and is now an important market.

AI dispute resolution may hold promise in litigation, but like all things AI, it will need guardrails.

Law firms and lawyers just aren’t as security conscious as they need to be.

Law firms and lawyers just aren’t as security conscious as they need to be.

Overall, the conference was really good, with a lot of excitement and major announcements.

The next to last Keynote at Filevine’s LEX Summit was a big one. It featured an interview of the renowned lawyer Alex Spiro by Ryan Anderson, CEO of

The next to last Keynote at Filevine’s LEX Summit was a big one. It featured an interview of the renowned lawyer Alex Spiro by Ryan Anderson, CEO of

Lawyers and law firms should be very excited about these announcements,

This acquisition may be the first domino to fall in a much larger transformation.

Every client wants budgets and financial transparency, but few lawyers want to do it.

Don’t let LLMs hijack your style for the sake of expediency.

It’s a sad state of affairs when firms are making millions in profits and partners are taking home so much money, but they can’t spring for better technology for associates to get their work done.

Firms need to work harder on mentorship programs. Lawyers need more hands-on training that can’t be done exclusively with AI.

Even though data-driven resource allocation reduces attrition, reduces cost, and may lead to better partners, firms are slow to embrace it.

A few days ago, I published ten hints to help enjoy the experience of travel while avoiding the risk of hassles. As promised then, here are ten more.

The cloud isn't magic. It's just someone else's computer.