Albin Renauer
albinr.bsky.social
Albin Renauer
@albinr.bsky.social
Lawyer/computer geek with 40 years of exploring how technology (from floppy disks to AI) can make legal information free and accessible to folks who are not rich enough to afford a lawyer. #legaltech #a2j #accesstojustice
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I often tell people, when forecasting the impact of AI on the legal world, that there are some scenarios too deeply disconcerting to say much about. @lawdroid.bsky.social has just spelled out in detail what those scenarios look like, and you should read it. www.lawdroidmanifesto.com/p/appetite-f...
Appetite for Destruction: Will Generative AI Eat Lawyers Alive?
Where I explore how AI is not just another efficiency booster, but may be a value-chain predator that could swallow the legal profession whole
www.lawdroidmanifesto.com
March 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Per Thomson Reuters and @georgetownlaw.bsky.social report, more fundamental changes will be needed as a result of the rapid spread of GenAI technology and the transformative effects it is likely to have on law firms. ℅ @bobambrogi.bsky.social
www.lawnext.com/2025/01/repo...
Report from Thomson Reuters and Georgetown Law Says 2024 Was the Beginning of the End for the Traditional Law Firm Business Model
In their annual report on the state of the U.S. legal market, Thomson Reuters and the Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession at Georgetown Law say that 2024 was a pivotal year for law firms, markin...
www.lawnext.com
January 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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In states with abortion bans, ProPublica has found, pregnant women have bled to death, succumbed to fatal infections and wound up in morgues with what medical examiners recorded were “products of conception” still in their bodies. @propublica.org
www.propublica.org/article/abor...
Are Abortion Bans Across America Causing Deaths? The States That Passed Them Are Doing Little to Find Out.
The same political leaders who enacted abortion bans oversee the state committees that review maternal deaths. These committees haven’t tracked the laws’ impacts, and most haven’t finished examining c...
www.propublica.org
December 18, 2024 at 2:07 PM
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Everyone's been talking about it since yesterday but it's some real Kafka shit that it's unethical to point out if the Supreme Court does something unethical.
Officially Unethical To Suggest Sam Alito Is Unethical
Being a Supreme Court justice means never having to say you're sorry... but everyone else has to apologize to you.
abovethelaw.com
December 18, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Should be an interesting four years.
December 5, 2024 at 2:47 PM
I was just looking back and thinking about how much this year reminds me of the election of 1986.

73% of voters felt it necessary to establish English as the official language of California, fearing that foreigners were overrunning the state.

That was where California was in 1986.
November 25, 2024 at 6:31 AM