Right now, our relationship with AI is like one where hard issues are always put off. That never ends well.

In legal, where the margin for error is small and the stakes are high, we can't afford to let AI vendor promises override our professional judgment.

Be flexible. Look at AI and what it can do holistically. Deal with not knowing the future by admitting that you don’t.

Before the volcano erupts, smart lawyers may want to think twice about investing too heavily in AI or thinking it’s a panacea for all problems.

It may be too late to completely put AI back in the bottle.

It may be too late to completely put AI back in the bottle.

It may be too late to completely put AI back in the bottle.

It's incumbent on all of us to do all we can to make ordinary people aware of the dangers.

The grade school game seemed simple enough. Grab the other team's flag without getting tagged. But for a kid like me with not much athletic talent,

Podcast Episode · FDCC Speaks · 11/19/2025 · 38m

Both firms are investing real resources and forgoing billable hours. They are walking the walk.

It’s a paradox: while GenAI can make things better, it’s not enthusiastically embraced. Why?

Descrybe is a natural language search tool. In keeping with the goal of reaching as many people as possible, users can input queries in plain English or Spanish without necessarily needing exact legal terminology.

Perhaps it’s time for in-house legal to have a gut check with their outside counsel.

We can’t let the fact that there are dumb lawyers making stupid mistakes blind us to the benefits that AI brings.

The tech news you need to know from the past week covering iPhones, iPads, and related mobile technology. Brought to you by Jeff Richardson of iPhone J.D. and Brett Burney of Apps in Law.

A national litigator offers commentary on the clash of cultures between tech and innovation and the traditional, precedent grounded legal profession.

Because outside lawyers are lagging so far behind in-house and apparently making little effort to catch up, it’s not hard to envision a day of reckoning.

Podcast Episode · FDCC Speaks · 11/01/2025 · 35m

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